Continuity mistake: When Laura is clearing the herb garden, on the first day, she overhears Mr Bingham arguing with the Dean; in her hands, she has a very large pair of scissors; but when she turns away, she is now holding a scythe.
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31st Mar 2014
Rosemary & Thyme (2003)
31st Mar 2014
Suspicion (1941)
Continuity mistake: When Johnnie and Lina arrive back from their honeymoon, they decide to have tea and cake in their new home. Johnnie picks up the tea pot and starts to pour the tea, but then he picks up the tea pot for a second time and starts again to pour the tea.
24th Mar 2014
Romancing the Stone (1984)
Continuity mistake: When Joan and Jack arrive in the town, Danny De Vito is on the public phone to his cousin, Ira, and when he sees Jack and Joan, he says "You are the luckiest son of a bitch; she's coming right toward the phone booth," but he says this before Jack and Joan have even seen the phone booth, let alone walked towards it.
24th Mar 2014
Suspicion (1941)
Continuity mistake: When Lina goes to visit her writer friend, she opens the gate, then closes it behind her. But when she leaves, the gate is open.
24th Mar 2014
King Kong (2005)
Continuity mistake: When Anne is on the rotten tree branch, trying to escape the giant lizard, there is a large black leaf on her chest, but, in the next shot, it's gone.
24th Mar 2014
Malice (1993)
Continuity mistake: Anne Bancroft empties her glass of whiskey, but without filling it up from the bottle there is whiskey in her glass, and then more.
24th Mar 2014
Rear Window (1954)
Continuity mistake: When "Miss Lonely Hearts" leaves her apartment, her lipstick is very bright red, but when she enters the bar across the street, her lipstick is now pale red.
24th Mar 2014
Rear Window (1954)
Continuity mistake: When Stella first comes to Jeff, she helps him back into his wheelchair after a very quick massage. Just before he's helped into the wheelchair his pyjama top is undone, and then when he's actually in the chair, his top is buttoned.
24th Mar 2014
Gravity (2013)
Continuity mistake: Right at the end, when Ryan's pod lands, in the beginning, there are hardly any plants, but, in the next shot, there are lots of plants; the same with land, one second she's far away from land, but then, suddenly, she's right near it. (01:21:10)
24th Mar 2014
Rosemary & Thyme (2003)
Continuity mistake: Laura finds the missing bow in the church, and it has the string attached, but when the policeman holds it up, the string is missing.
19th Mar 2014
Rosemary & Thyme (2003)
Continuity mistake: Just before the girls leave Helena's, Laura wants to try out the new lights, but when she turns them on - there are 7 of them - they all blow, but 15 bulbs blow, not 7.
19th Mar 2014
Capote (2005)
Continuity mistake: When Truman goes to see Perry's sister, Truman is sitting on a sofa in the living room, and behind the sofa is a large bank of windows. In the first shot there are 2 children playing in the backyard, but a second later, the children have moved - in fact only one can be seen at far left of the windows.
19th Mar 2014
Capote (2005)
Continuity mistake: When Truman and Nell go to dinner at the head detective's house, Truman and Nell are sitting in the kitchen so they can talk to the detective's wife as she cooks dinner. There are 3 full martini glasses on the bench, which Truman then fills up in a different shot.
19th Mar 2014
Capote (2005)
Continuity mistake: The first time we see Truman trying to feed Perry baby food, the spoon with baby food on it changes position depending on the position of the camera: from Perry's viewpoint the spoon is very close to his mouth, but from Truman's viewpoint the spoon is further away.
18th Mar 2014
Rebecca (1940)
Continuity mistake: In the beginning, in the hotel foyer, at Monte Carlo, the girl has a cup and saucer in her lap. When Maxim joins them, the girl is holding the cup and its handle is on the right, then she's not holding the cup, it's just resting in her lap, then she's holding it and the handle is on the left.
18th Mar 2014
Rebecca (1940)
Continuity mistake: When Maxim's sister and the girl sit down to chat, just the two of them, the sister, before sitting down, drops her purse at the back of the seat, then sits down, but in the next shot her purse is on her lap.
18th Mar 2014
Flight (2012)
Continuity mistake: When Harling picks Whip up from the hospital, he says he couldn't find any suitcases at Whip's place, so he puts his clothes and stuff in garbage bags, but when Whip arrives at the farm, there are no garbage bags in sight, just a small suitcase and a small plastic bag.
Suggested correction: The suitcase is probably in Whip's car - no reason why he couldn't have shoved everything in there.
13th Mar 2014
Schindler's List (1993)
Continuity mistake: Near the end, Schindler pays a German officer about a dozen diamonds, in return for his workers. The diamonds when poured out of the bag are mostly together with one off to the right, but, in the next shot, they are more spread out with one off to the left.
10th Mar 2014
Malice (1993)
Continuity mistake: When Andy goes to see Tracy's mother, she has her hand around the whiskey glass, but when he stands up, her hand is resting on the table, and when he turns back, the glass is in her hand again.
10th Mar 2014
The Morning After (1986)
Continuity mistake: Jane Fonda gets out of Jeff Bridge's car in broad daylight, but when she enters the dead man's house, it's night-time.
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