Goofs for
Hudson Hawk (1991) More at IMDbPro »

• Errors in geography: Hudson Hawk is pulled along the Brooklyn Bridge by an ambulance. When he breaks free, he exits the bridge in the left lane. He ends up at the toll plaza for the Brooklyn Battery tunnel, which is about three miles away.
  
  
• Factual errors: Hudson Hawk is given a brick of gold and a brick of lead while blindfolded, to demonstrate that they are indistinguishable by weight. Gold is 70% denser than lead, and the weight difference would be easily noticed. The gold brick would weigh about 30 pounds, but they handle it as if it weighs a couple of pounds. They also mention that gold and lead differ by one proton on the periodic table of elements. The difference is actually 3 protons and 7 neutrons.
  
  
• Continuity: In the Five-Tone Bar, soon after the coffee machine breaks down, at least one of the objects on the table disappears.
  
  

• Continuity: When Hudson Hawk gets out of the crate, the packing peanuts stuck to his face move around and change shape.
  
  
• Continuity: As Hudson is speaking with Anna on the couch, her dress jumps back onto her shoulder between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: After injecting Hawk's leg, the syringe the Almond Joy removes is just as full as when she started.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Tommy and Eddie jump from the museum/auction house, the cables attached to their stuntmen were visible for a second.
  
  
• Continuity: When the Mario Brothers are chasing Hudson Hawk in the ambulance on the Brooklyn Bridge, the air fresheners hanging from the rearview mirror and the needles hanging from Antony Mario's face change.
  
  
• Factual errors: Actor Carmine Zozzora's name is misspelled "Zozorra" in the closing credits.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Tommy is quizzing Hudson Hawk on song lengths, he asks "National Anthem, Whitney Houston, Super Bowl 17?" Whitney Houston sang the National Anthem at Super Bowl 25. Leslie Easterbrook, who played Callahan in the "Police Academy" movies, sang the National Anthem at Super Bowl 17.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: As Hawk is riding the gurney behind the ambulance, the plastic IV bag on the gurney gets shot, but you hear glass shattering, as if the bag were an old-fashioned glass bottle. In a subsequent shot, the IV bag is intact again.
  
  
• Factual errors: Several characters are paralyzed using curare, yet they still breathe, talk, and move their heads. Curare kills by paralyzing the muscles necessary for breathing.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Anna is in the confessional, the priest forgets to give her absolution at the end of her confession, though he gives her penance.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Eddie says the song "Xanadu" is 4 minutes, 19 seconds long. The song's playtime is 3 minutes, 27 seconds.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Eddie and Tommy are in the recorder room of the auction house, Tommy tells Eddie that they have about "5 minutes and change." Eddie says "5:32 - Swinging on a Star." The version of the song that they sing as they are robbing the auction house is (at best) only 2 minutes 36 seconds (less than half of the time for which they have planned).
  
  

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