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They Live (1988) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: The alien at the magazine stand gets his change twice.
  
  
• Continuity: The scars on Nada's face disappear by the time he is in the underground base.
  
  
• Continuity: When Nada takes Holly captive and forces her to drive, the passenger side door is unlocked, and then locked again, between shots.
  
  

• Continuity: The angle of the sun continually changes during the alley fight.
  
  
• Continuity: During the alley fight, Frank drops the sunglasses and tries to step on them before Nada stops him. The glasses fall on the lenses, but after Nada is kicked in the head and the camera pans down, the glasses are facing up.
  
  
• Continuity: At the beginning of the alley fight, Nada sets down a cardboard box; Frank sets down a backpack. Towards the middle of the fight, as Frank tries to walk away, both items disappear.
  
  
• Continuity: As Nada pulls Frank to his feet and puts the glasses on him, Frank's sweater is pulled up, revealing his undershirt. In the next shot, the sweater is back in place.
  
  
• Continuity: As Nada and Frank are trying to get to the roof of the television building, they go down a hall as a particular worker is running away from them. In the next shot, the same worker is even closer to them than before.
  
  
• Continuity: As Nada sits in the car, his revolver changes color from chrome to black.
  
  
• Continuity: Nada peers through the blinds during the night police raid. Outside, it's daytime.
  
  
• Continuity: When the money, from Nada's point of view, changes from regular bills to the "THIS IS YOUR GOD" bills, the folds in the paper are different and there is one less bill.
  
  
• Continuity: During the magazine stand scene, the "THIS IS YOUR GOD" currency does not appear to match that of the real kind. Real US currency is printed on a special type of cotton fiber paper, whereas the TIYG money appears to be printed on standard 20lb printer paper. The two types of paper take on different characteristics when they are bent and folded many times over.
  
  
• Continuity: As Nada and Frank run through the TV station, a man in a gray suit quickly turns the corner. A moment later, the same man turns the corner again.
  
  
• Continuity: When Nada is first hit and pushed through Holly's window, the TV is turned in slightly and blocks a part of the window, but in the next shot from inside of the home, the TV is now square with the wall and is out of the way of the window.
  
  
• Continuity: When Nada is falling through Holly's window, a pair of sunglasses can be seen falling with him outside as he first falls to the ground. However, a short time later, Holly is looking at the floor of her place where the sunglasses are now sitting.
  
  

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