Continuity mistake: The Captain has a piece of gauze on his wounded cheek, and over time, the gauze has a small amount of blood, to a lot, back to a little, and back and forth.
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14th Jan 2016
Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
28th Dec 2015
The Gift (2000)

Continuity mistake: At the trial, the defence lawyer puts a dollar bill on the witness box while he is questioning Annie, which keeps moving, without anyone's help.
28th Dec 2015
On Golden Pond (1981)
Continuity mistake: When Norman and Billy have an accident with the boat, they cling to a rock in the water, waiting for help. At the beginning, Billy is to the left of Norman, but then Billy is on Norman's right, and then it goes back to the original.
21st Dec 2015
American Sniper (2014)
Continuity mistake: When Chris and family move to Texas, Chris takes one tall box off the ute and into the house, but once in the house there are two boxes, not just one.
14th Dec 2015
The Graduate (1967)
Continuity mistake: When Mrs Robinson gets out of Ben's car, which doesn't have the top down, her hair is notably messy but, not soon after, her hair is fine, and it is done up in an elaborate way, so she couldn't have fixed it herself.
14th Dec 2015
The English Patient (1996)
Continuity mistake: In the desert, early in the morning, Catherine's husband is heading for his plane, but Almasy wants to talk to him. Between them, on the ground, is a box, but from the other shot, the box is gone.
14th Dec 2015
The Gift (2000)
Continuity mistake: In the beginning, Valerie's eye is so badly bruised the eye is closed shut, but a few days later there is not a mark remaining.
14th Dec 2015
The Money Pit (1986)
Continuity mistake: After the first full day's work is done, at first, there isn't any scaffolding, but when Anna comes home late at night, there is heaps of scaffolding.
9th Dec 2015
Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)
Continuity mistake: In the beginning, Ana's fringe changes from an uneven fringe, to even, and uneven again; back and forth.
30th Nov 2015
Across the Pacific (1942)
Continuity mistake: Near the end, as a plane is getting ready to run down the airstrip, Bogie knocks the gunman out, then uses the gun to shoot the plane in its tracks. When the machine gun starts to fire, it has a long strip of bullets, then fewer, and so on.
30th Nov 2015
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
Continuity mistake: After a day at the beach, Lucy has a long walk ahead of her via a very long dirt road. When Lucy starts the walk, there is a man/woman riding a horse-drawn wagon; but, after a brief chat with Daniel, when she starts walking again, the wagon is gone, and there are no visible side dirt roads.
25th Nov 2015
Night Train to Lisbon (2013)
Continuity mistake: When Raimund pulls the girl with the red coat off the railing bridge, his briefcase opens and his pupils' essays fall out and get wet in the rain. Raimond and the girl pick them all up, but they are a mess; miraculously, when Raimond starts to put them back, they fit easily, and they are not soaking wet.
16th Nov 2015
Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
Continuity mistake: In the beginning, a man who can see into the future puts his hands into a bowl filled with ashes. His hands now are blackened with soot, except for a side-on shot, where his hands are clean, with only a small amount of soot on them.
16th Nov 2015
The Gift (2000)
Continuity mistake: Annie takes the photo album from her sleeping son's arms and she heads for the door, with the album under her arm. As she appears out the door, the album is gone.
12th Nov 2015
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
Continuity mistake: At the end, Lucy is sitting in the big chair in her bedroom, and Martha leaves, pulling the door closed with her. In the next shot, the door is wide open. In addition when Lucy dies, her head is turned to her right, but as she leaves as a ghost, she looks back at herself, and her head is now turned to the left.
2nd Nov 2015
Night Train to Lisbon (2013)
Continuity mistake: At the beginning, as Raimund is crossing the bridge in the rain, his umbrella turns inside out, but as it flies away to the river, it is not turned.
1st Oct 2015
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
Continuity mistake: At the end, while they are in a taxi, there's another taxi behind them, but when their taxi pulls over and stops, a black car goes by. But, again, in the rear, there is the same taxi. And, again, when the taxi stops, no taxi goes by.
23rd Aug 2015
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
Continuity mistake: When Holly falls asleep in Paul's arms, he puts the light out, but when she is having bad dreams, Paul shakes her awake and the light is on.
31st Jul 2015
Carrie (1976)
Continuity mistake: When the blood is poured over Carrie at the prom, it only covers her left side - hair, shoulder, arm, body. But in the next shot the blood is all over her, especially her hair. The blood on her face is strategically placed, so it isn't in her eyes or cover her too much.
25th May 2015
The Reader (2008)
Continuity mistake: As Michael stands, naked, facing the bath, Hannah stands behind him, naked also and with a towel, to dry him; all through this, water has continued to fill the bath, but, miraculously, it turns itself off.
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