Factual error: For someone who has been given one more month (minus the two weeks since her escape from the closed ward) because of a brain tumor Eddie looks way too healthy. (01:03:20)
NancyFelix
28th Oct 2003
Homer & Eddie (1989)
21st Oct 2003
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Factual error: At the end of the post station scene Cheyenne advises Harmonica to "watch those false notes". Harmonica anwers this with a discordant chord that could not be produced on a harmonica like his. (00:43:35)
11th Oct 2003
Nothing to Lose (1997)
Factual error: On their way through the desert Nick and T. cross the Arizonian border. Shortly after that you see Joshua trees left and right. Joshua trees, at least in such abundance, are only found in Joshua Tree National Park, which lies in California. (00:14:20)
25th Sep 2003
Being John Malkovich (1999)
Factual error: Eight months after Craig has taken over JM and made him into a puppeteer JM's hair is much, much longer than it could have grown within that period. (01:25:00)
22nd Sep 2003
The Usual Suspects (1995)
Factual error: When the burnt Hungarian guy is interrogated the first time a doctor insists that everyone wears masks (even though Jack Baer is very lax about it). When he is surrounded by doctors the second time none of them bothers about masks. (00:38:10 - 01:01:40)
22nd Sep 2003
The Usual Suspects (1995)
Factual error: A person with 60% burns on his body would not be wearing pyjamas, as the Hungarian guy does. (00:19:45)
16th Sep 2003
Good bye, Lenin! (2003)
Factual error: Alex's mother lies eight weeks in coma. After she wakes up she remains bedridden for weeks (we don't know for how many but that doesn't really matter), first in hospital, then at home. When she sneaks out of bed for the very first time and walks out of the house she does so without any major signs of dizziness - anybody who has spent a few days flat on his back in hospital knows about the difficulties to get vertical again. The problem is not only a mechanical one like weak or stiff legs, something a physiotherapist could help with, but mainly the fact that the heart would not be able to build up enough pressure to supply the brain with sufficient blood. It's absolutely impossible that Christine would be able to get up the way she does after eight weeks not only in bed but in a coma.
14th Sep 2003
Gods and Monsters (1998)
Factual error: Brendan Fraser's gelled-up haircut fits very much the time when the movie was made but not the time when it was set, i.e. the fifties.
14th Sep 2003
Sabrina (1954)
Factual error: When David talks to Linus about the consequences of calling off his engagement with Elizabeth he says that their father would take to the bottle and smoke six coronas. Throughout the movie the old Larrabee smokes one churchill after another, but not a single corona, which is significantly shorter than a churchill. (01:02:05)
26th Aug 2003
Working Girl (1988)
Factual error: At the end of the movie Tess gets a job at Trask. Her secretary tells her that she can get her schedule on the PC by pressing shift + s. That would result in a capital S only - what she probably means is ctrl + s. (01:44:15)
26th Aug 2003
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Factual error: Chess is played with a white square at the right end of the first row. You see the chess board with the stone figures in Andy's cell, and every time there is a black square on the right. Andy would have known better.
15th Aug 2003
No Man's Land (2001)
Factual error: The German mine expert is working with his face shield open while he is trying to defuse the mine placed under Cera. (01:15:45)
30th Jul 2003
Die Feuerzangenbowle (1944)
Factual error: In the chemistry lesson on alcoholic fermentation there is written on the blackboard: H6P5O11 -> cane sugar, which is plain nonsense. (00:34:00)
21st Jul 2003
Crazy in Alabama (1999)
Factual error: When Lucille meets her driver Norman for the first time she reads his name on a name plate from a distance that requires superhuman vision. (00:42:35)
21st Jul 2003
Crazy in Alabama (1999)
Factual error: Peejoe gets his eye operated on under full anesthesia, but he is neither intubated nor has any needle attached to his veins. (00:41:15)
14th Jul 2003
The Polar Bear King (1991)
Factual error: People can't outrun polar bears. (00:23:45)
14th Jul 2003
The Polar Bear King (1991)
Factual error: The movie is set in the Middle Ages. Therefore, the traders who come to the Winterland to sell their goods must be quite ahead of their time to carry fairly modern lighters. (00:04:20)
9th Jul 2003
Solaris (2002)
Factual error: The fake Rheya tries to kill herself by drinking liquid oxygen. The liquid shown is green, viscous, and foaming and looks a bit like the monster's body fluid in Alien. Liquid oxygen is colorless, non-viscous and doesn't produce sticky bubbles. (01:00:25)
8th Jul 2003
Terms of Endearment (1983)
Factual error: Aurora is considering giving Emma a painting by Renoir as her wedding present. The piece of art in question is certainly not painted by or copied after Renoir. (00:08:40)
8th Jul 2003
Terms of Endearment (1983)
Factual error: Emma gets her cancerous lymph node removed without preceding or at least following chemotherapy. Later, when she finally gets chemotherapy, she keeps her full hair till the end.
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