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Continuity mistake: Katie enters the room where Gail is posing Indian-style. Lucy Hale's hair changes position in front of her shoulders repeatedly between shots. (00:02:25)

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Continuity mistake: Angela brings Katie the gift box; when she 'ta-daa!'s and Katie reaches for it, it's turned 180° compared to when Angie put the box on the bed. (00:29:20)

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Continuity mistake: Victor takes off his headset when Bev and Katie enter his room, hands off; in the following shot he is touching the left headphone. (00:58:10)

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Continuity mistake: Katie puts Angie's sari back in the box twice in different shots. It also sticks out in different ways the first time around. (00:29:40)

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Continuity mistake: The protagonist dismounts from the bed, grabs a CD, turns it around. Cut, and the CD is held differently and turned the other way. (00:02:00)

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Revealing mistake: When Katie interfaces her phone in the backstage, it displays 9:40am. Bit of a weird time for an evening talent show. (01:10:40)

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Revealing mistake: Locked out of the house, Katie has to wander around naked. Or rather, in her skin-colored tight fitting underwear. (00:16:22)

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24th Sep 2019

Eastern Promises (2007)

Factual error: Both the Arsenal and Chelsea supporters in the street scenes wear scarves and jerseys without any club logo or player name, the most generic possible, a little darker than Chelsea's real colors and with odd stripes for the Arsenal's scarves, and there's a whole crowd of them. Licensing issues or other reasons, it looks really phony. (00:57:00 - 00:58:10)

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24th Sep 2019

Security (2017)

Continuity mistake: Eddie is taken into the staff room to be introduced to the team and on the wall there's a big digital clock, making rather obvious the various takes combined in editing, creating a bunch of errors in continuity. When Vance starts mocking Mason, the clock is on 8:48, going back to 8:47 when Mason stands up from the chair. Ruby enters the room and the clock flips from 8:47 to 8:48 at the very first cut. (00:15:00 - 00:16:00)

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24th Sep 2019

Security (2017)

Continuity mistake: After display the taser, Vance gets the uniform for Eddie. As he brings it to him, at the edge of the frame Mason turns around in his chair, casting an annoyed look around. He repeats the gesture in the following shot. (00:16:55)

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24th Sep 2019

Security (2017)

Other mistake: Introducing the workplace to the new employee (Banderas), Vance says that the mall has never been updated because it has everything "Menswear, kidswear, ladieswear, cosmetics." The Italian dub misinterprets the last word (probably figuring it was 'medics'), and so the mall has the rather unlikely lineup; "Menswear, kidswear, ladieswear, doctors." (00:14:20)

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24th Sep 2019

The Apartment (1960)

Continuity mistake: It was not a suicide attempt after all, and much relieved, CC grabs the bag of groceries to bring it inside the kitchen. He is carrying the bag to his right with the torso tilted, but in the reverse shot here he is, tilted in the opposite direction, the bag weighing against his left side. (01:37:45)

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24th Sep 2019

The Apartment (1960)

Visible crew/equipment: Randomly, a big moving shadow is cast on the underside of the flight of stairs between Daxter's apartment and the (unseen) second floor when he is unlocking the door of his flat after meeting his landlady that warned him about gas. It does not match Jack Lemmon's motions. (01:37:10)

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24th Sep 2019

The Apartment (1960)

Continuity mistake: During the sequence when CC and Fran are playing gin with her recovering from the sleeping pills, close-ups of Shirley MacLaine have hard light come from her left side, while the wider shots with Lemmon in it have light coming from (her) right side. (01:25:00 - 01:28:10)

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24th Sep 2019

The Apartment (1960)

Continuity mistake: To revive Fran, Dr. Dreyfuss slaps her repeatedly and breaks capsules for her to smell. One of the capsules is on the armrest of the chair, and it is positioned and tilted differently each time a cut intervened with Jack Lemmon going to the windows and back. (01:09:00)

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24th Sep 2019

The Apartment (1960)

Deliberate mistake: In the bar scene with the woman blowing straw sleeves at him, Jack Lemmon and the extra next to him have their glasses full before the music ends, but empty when she walks up to him placing the rum glass on the counter. The barman brings instant off-screen refills to all of them without being reasonably enough time for him to pour. (00:52:30)

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24th Sep 2019

The Apartment (1960)

The Apartment mistake picture

Continuity mistake: During the second round of drinks, the amount of ice left in the frozen daiquiri changes depending on the camera angle. It's poofy and opaque in the side view, and deflated and almost fully transparent in the tighter close-up on Shirley MacLaine, with an intermediate angle and state. (00:38:10)

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24th Sep 2019

The Apartment (1960)

Deliberate mistake: Jack Lemmon looks at his watch as he puts his thermometer in his mouth, and when he takes it out. Obviously in 25 seconds a 1960 mercury thermometer would not give a reading of his 101 fever, it's deliberately done for the scene to move on (although it could have been done differently, with a cut or having him retrieve the thermometer later, since the scene is static and lasts much longer, enough for a real thermometer to work). (00:19:20)

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