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True Romance (1993) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: The comic book that Clarence shows Alabama is "Sleepwalker #8," and has nothing to do with a ring, a ship, or a man named Nick, which is the plot that Clarence explains to Alabama.
  
  
• Continuity: Frankie's arm position when smoking a cigarette.
  
  
• Continuity: The small bottle on the bath tub before Alabama uses it as a weapon against Virgil.
  
  

• Continuity: The vomit on Elliot's sweater at the amusement park.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Obvious stunt driver in place of Clarence as he drives away from the Safari Motor Inn.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: Elliott calls Lee on his car phone on Sunday. Lee tells him he will meet Clarence about "Dr. Zhivago" at the Beverly Ambassador on Wednesday at 3:00. Elliott hangs up and says that Lee will meet them at 3:00, but he doesn't say what day.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Reflected in Lee's sunglasses while driving and talking to Elliot on cellular phone.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Stunt mask is clearly visible when Alabama sets Virgil's face on fire.
  
  
• Errors in geography: In an establishing shot in front of the theater, supposedly in Detroit, where Clarence is watching Sonny Chiba movies, there is a street sign in the background which clearly says "Hollywood Boulevard".
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Obvious stuntman when Marvin is killed.
  
  
• Continuity: When Alabama is being beaten up by Virgil, her face is bloodied early on. But when Virgil tosses her onto a half-wall and she slides across it, the blood vanishes from her face as she hits the wall (stunt double), and then reappears in the next shot.
  
  
• Continuity: Drexl's left eye is blind and seen without a pupil. After Clarence shoots him, and Drexl is covering his face with his hands, Clarence commands him to open his eyes. We then clearly see a pupil present in the supposedly blind eye.
  
  
• Continuity: When Drexl kills Big Don and Floyd D. with a shotgun, he racks the weapon and fires five total rounds. The shot gun only holds a maximum of four rounds in the tube.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Clarence's father, Clifford is shot in the head, in a brief close-up front view, a red splatter appears on his forehead but with no kind of wound visible.
  
  
• Continuity: In the fight scene at Drexl's, Clarence shoots Drexl in the, well in the crotch. Marty then enters room and Clarence puts 4 shots into Marty, then shoots Drexl 2 more times in the head. All with a 6 shot revolver.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Clarence and Alabama arrive in Los Angeles, we see them driving along the freeway with the Capitol Records building in the background and the sun low on the horizon, indicating that it is evening. However, a radio announcer is talking about it being morning.
  
  
• Factual errors: Virgil beats up Alabama in her hotel room when she refuses to talk. After Virgil spots the suitcase of cocaine under the bed and grabs it, he prepares to shoot the kneeling Alabama. But when he sees her armed with a Swiss Army Knife corkscrew, he is amused and tells her she can have one shot. Alabama stabs Virgil in the foot with it, temporarily disabling him. However, a Swiss Army Knife corkscrew has a dull point, and like all Swiss Army Knife blades and tools, it will not lock in the open position. Therefore, unless Virgil was barefoot, in real life Alabama's stabbing attempt would have hurt her hand more than Virgil's foot. As soon as the corkscrew met the resistance of Virgil's shoe, it would have folded back into the knife, painfully pinching any of Alabama's fingers caught in between.
  
  

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