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Dirty Dancing (1987)

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• Revealing mistakes: You can see Baby's body stocking during the second sex scene.
  
  
• Continuity: Johnny gets his pants dirty by sliding across the floor, yet they are clean in the next shot.
  
  
• Continuity: Johnny puts his records back twice after talking to Neil.
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: After the second "sex" scene when Baby asks Johnny if he's "had many women," she rolls over when he comes back to kiss her after putting his shirt on and you can clearly see her underwear near the top of the sheet across her back.
  
  
• Factual errors: Driving to the resort at the beginning of the movie, the road has solid center lines which are yellow. In the early '60s centerlines were white, not yellow.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Baby and Johnny are driving to the lodge, you see their silhouettes in the car, but not their faces. It's obviously a stunt double wearing a very bad big wig.
  
  
• Continuity: In the last dance scene, when Johnny jumps off the stage and goes to the back of the auditorium to get the other "dirty dancers" his hair is alternately wet/dry between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: Size of the hole in Johnny's back window changes between shots.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Johnny has to bust the back window of his car, the shot inside the car shows that the entire window frame gives way, but from the outside shot, there is only a hole and the window frame is in place.
  
  
• Continuity: When Johnny jumps off the porch to fight the guy who's been taunting him, his belt buckle is buckled. Then, when he lands on the ground and starts fighting, his belt is buckled undone. Then after a punch is thrown it's buckled again.
  
  
• Continuity: When Johnny locks his keys in his car during a torrential rain, you can see the sun reflected shining brightly in the rear window of the car. You can also see that the ground beside the post he picks up is dry and sunlit and you can see shadows cast by the sunlight as Johnny picks up the post.
  
  
• Continuity: When Baby is talking to her father as he sits on the porch, his jacket collar repeatedly swaps between being down and up between shots.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Baby is painting the "end of the season" show's set, their is no paint on her brush which looks clean and unused.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Johnny first slides on the ground towards the camera, you can see his kneepads in the light.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Johnny is driving off after he got fired, you hear the car start up at the same time you see his hand change the gear shift. He never even touched the ignition.
  
  
• Continuity: After Billy with the watermelons finds Baby in the staff area, they start up the long hill of stairs to the faint sounds of 'Do You Love Me' beginning to play. When they reach the the top in the next frame, presumably 2-3 minutes later, the song is still at the beginning.
  
  
• Continuity: During the final dance when Johnny gets ready on stage, he can be seen taking his coat off twice.
  
  

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