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Bruce Almighty (2003)

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• Continuity: The hood of Bruce's car is alternately damaged and undamaged between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: Grace is prompted to drive to the party when the dog throws her the car keys. However, the key is a Ford key, and her vehicle is a Chevy Blazer.
  
  
• Continuity: Coffee mugs on the diner table change positions between shots.
  
  

• Continuity: When Bruce Nolan and Jack Baylor are talking in the hallway outside of Jack's office, Bruce's collar changes from inside his jacket to outside of it, then inside again.
  
  
• Continuity: In the diner, the ketchup and mustard bottles on the left next to the old man keep switching positions.
  
  
• Continuity: In the diner, Bruce clearly pours quite a bit of cream into his coffee. In the following shots, the coffee is still black.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Bruce puts both feet on the railing to "pull in" the moon, the background around him shifts from side to side.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Bruce goes outside to retrieve the pager, the bottoms of his feet are already black and dirty from many previous takes.
  
  
• Continuity: FLIPPED SHOT: Bruce's Hair is parted on his left. When he meets God during the the town riots, his hair is parted on the other side for a split second.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bruce is looking at the pager, his hands are around the screen in the close-up. In the long shots, his hands grip the edge.
  
  
• Continuity: During the cookie scenes, the milk on Bruce's shirt and trousers disappears and reappears.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Bruce is drenched in the rain, his microphone is clearly visible beneath his blue shirt.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Bruce licks his finger and touches his hip, smoke comes out of his hip, but the smoke isn't reflected in the window next to him.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Bruce arrives back at the warehouse to talk to God, who isn't there, a shadow (not Bruce's) is clearly visible in the background.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Bruce is in the diner, you can see the strings attached to the sugar and creamer when they move into his hands.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Bruce first meets God, God sings the "Clapper" song, and the two claps in the middle of the song "Clap on *clapclap* Clap off *clapclap*" are out of sync with God's hands.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Bruce is at the chili cook-off and the meteor strikes, the smoke stops rising when Bruce runs toward it.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Bruce and God are talking standing on the water, God bends over and picks up the Rosary beads. You can see fishing line making a V-shaped line in the water going from the beads to the top of the frame.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Bruce and God are standing on the water, you can clearly see the platform Morgan Freeman is standing on.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Bruce is in the car and parts the traffic, the traffic control signal blinks faster while the cars are moving.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Bruce carries the urinating dog outside, there aren't any wet marks on the ground or on the floor where the dog is supposedly going on the chair.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bruce wants all prayers organized into files, file cabinets start filling up the room he is standing in. By the time they last cabinet is put in front of Bruce, the position of his head behind the cabinet changes.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Tony Bennett is singing at the "Blue Palm" restaurant, the piano player's fingers and bass player are clearly not in time with the music.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bruce chokes on the spoon in the diner, he removes it from his mouth with two fingers from both of his hands. When the shot moves to the old man and back to Bruce again, his hands have switched.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Bruce gets out of his car, you can see the black outline of the gun in his hand before he holds it up.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bruce does a report in front of Niagara Falls, the ground below him is not wet.
  
  
• Continuity: Bruce sees Clint Eastwood in the mirror and covers it with his hand. In the next shot, he is not holding onto the mirror and walks out.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bruce answers prayers at high speed (at the computer), he puts his coffee mug down on his left. When he answers all prayers "Yes", the mug has disappeared from his left, and he picks it up from his right.
  
  
• Continuity: The morning after Bruce enhances Grace's breasts, he squirts ketchup on his toast. When the camera switches back to him as he gets up, there is no ketchup on the toast.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When the beeper calls him in his bedroom, the original voice-over said a different number than shown on the beeper's display. The newer DVD version corrects the mistake, but the voice is clearly not Jim Carrey's.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Bruce is typing answers to the prayer emails, the same prayers appear over and over, when they are supposed to be different prayers. The contents of the prayers do not match the subject lines. For example, one prayer that has "RE: New Car" in the subject line is actually a request to find a lost cat, a prayer that Bruce answered earlier in the scene.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Bruce picks up his pager to read the numbers, what he reads and the numbers on the pager are totally different.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bruce crashes his car and is yelling at God for ignoring him, he faces the screen and says "Answer Me!" The top two buttons of his shirt are unbuttoned. The next shot only one is unbuttoned.
  
  
• Factual errors: Bruce donates blood at the end of the movie. Because he'd recently had a blood transfusion, he wouldn't be eligible to donate blood for 3 months.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Bruce is "editing" the night sky, there are many stars that can be seen. However, he lives in downtown Buffalo, in which it would be rare to see any stars at all.
  
  
• Factual errors: In the Bakery scene, Bruce is wearing a hairnet. When Bruce spills the milk along the line of kids, his hairnet is gone. When he's about to cut the film, his hairnet is back on.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Bruce looks at himself in the mirror, Sam enters the room to pee on the couch. The shot changes to Bruce, then back to Sam. On the right side of the screen, you can see the hand of the dog trainer, pointing to where the dog should be looking.
  
  
• Continuity: At Niagara Falls, while talking to the owner of The Maid of the Mist, Bruce shakes his head, which makes his hair messy. The scene cuts to Grace. When it cuts back to Bruce, his hair is parted and neat.
  
  

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