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The Hitcher (1986) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: A bus changes from a two rear axles to one.
  
  
• Continuity: The car that gets hit by the bus loses its bumper, but the bumper can be seen in a subsequent shot.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the two police cars are trying to shoot out the tires in the pursuit, they both flip, and the devices under the cars making them flip are visible.
  
  

• Crew or equipment visible: In the scene with the two police cars try to shoot out tires, not only can you see the ram holes in the bottom of the cars, just after that you can see a car battery and large air-tank fly out of a trunk. The air-tank is the power for the ram that flips the car. And that cars battery should have been in the front, not the trunk.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: While being arrested outside the diner, C. Thomas Howell accidentally kicks one of the deputies in the back of the head while being slammed on the hood of the police car.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: After one of the deputies fires a warning shot at Jim Halsey just outside the diner, you can hear the shotgun pumping, but the deputy with the shotgun takes no such action.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Jim enters the abandoned garage, birds fly in front of the camera for dramatic effect. Though the hole in the floor seems to be intentional, the person visible pushing the birds out from said hole was probably not.
  
  
• Continuity: When Ryder escapes from the prisoner bus with a Franchi SPAS-12 shotgun, a total of 11 shots are fired. A SPAS-12 can only hold a total of 8 rounds.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During the final scene when Rutger Hauer jumps out of the back of the bus and flies through the windshield of the Dodge Ramcharger, the windshield shatters like regular glass, not safety glass.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene where the hitcher and Jim Halsey are sitting in the diner with the gun under the table, the plant in the right corner behind Jim's head is knocked over. In the next scene it is sitting upright.
  
  
• Continuity: When the dog is licking the dead officer, his mouth is closed. In the next shot, his mouth is open.
  
  
• Continuity: When Jim and Nash are in the police car with the chopper flying around them in several scenes they are driving 55 mph, but in one shot they are just crawling.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Ryder is being transported in the bus the guards have guns and in one shot they start playing cards but in real life the guards cannot carry guns on them when transporting a prisoner and their attention would be on the prisoner and not playing cards.
  
  

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