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Arlington Road (1999) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: When Oliver Lang is speaking with Michael Faraday at the batting cages, he is holding the bat with both left and right hand grips alternating in several quick cuts.
  
  
• Continuity: The spots of blood on Brady's shoes and pants in the opening scene changes.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Michael Faraday mentions Dean Scobee as the driver of the van containing the explosives in a fictitious bombing in St. Louis; any resemblance to a real bombing in another city is, as usual, coincidental.
  
  

• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Lang's yearbook shows him receiving a B.A. under his graduation picture, but Faraday calls him an engineer (and he appears to be one), which would merit a degree of a B.S. at most schools. It's possible he went on to get another degree (though that seems unlikely) or post-graduate training.
  
  
• Factual errors: The amount of C4 in the car trunk is not even close to enough to destroy the building.
  
  
• Continuity: Michael Faraday drives over the same part of the bridge twice while following the delivery van.
  
  
• Continuity: When he crashes the Contour with the truck he smashes the front headlamp, but a following scene shows both headlamps intact and only a scratch.
  
  
• Continuity: The alarm light (indicating that the alarm is activated) is not showing, yet when the clock changes to 5:00 AM the alarm sounds.
  
  
• Continuity: The blood on Oliver's face changes during and after his fight with Michael.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: Towards the end when someone says 'Stand-by' into the walkie-talkie, her mouth doesn't match the words she says.
  
  
• Boom mic visible: When Michael is sleeping and is woken up by FBI Agent Whit Carver's phone call, you see the boom mic dip in, with white tape around its tip, then swing back out as he reaches for the phone.
  
  
• Continuity: The red Ford Contour changes from a '97-98 to a '94-96 model and back to a '97-98 during the chase scene.
  
  
• Factual errors: During the final scene in the FBI parking garage, Michael Faraday opens the trunk of his red Ford. There are only two ways to open the trunk of this type of Contour: You either have to pull a lever at the inside of the car beside the driver's seat or you open it with the key of the car. Michael does not go into the car and he can't also be seen putting the key into the lock under the right tail light. But anyway, he's able to open the trunk.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The movie is supposed to take place in Washington D.C. However, during the final car chase scenes, the skyline of downtown Houston (which is where most of the movie was filmed) is clearly visible.
  
  
• Factual errors: Lang's yearbook is supposed to be from Kansas State (notice the K-State Wildcat in the front cover) but in the picture Faraday finds, the building Lang is standing in front of - Aycock Auditorium - is actually on the campus of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
  
  
• Continuity: The minute prior to the alarm clock going off at 6:00 is 5:55 instead of 5:59.
  
  
• Continuity: When Michael Faraday hits the bus with his red Ford, you can see in the following shot that the front suspension on the passenger's side of the car is broken, which would make it very difficult to steer the car properly. In all following shots the front suspension seems to be completely intact again.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The TV news would never provide such an accurate description of a car nor such a clear picture of the license plate of a car involved in a fatal accident until the victim's next-of-kin have been notified. However, Michael was not her next-of-kin, so her real next-of-kin might have been already notified when the TV was showing the footage.
  
  
• Plot holes: If there was enough explosive in the car to do the damage shown, Michael could immediately tell the difference when driving or perhaps even looking at the car due to the added weight.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The phone technician played by Sid Hillman, in the scene where he cuts Michael's phone lines looks surprisingly like his girlfriend Brooke (Hope Davis) with her head shaved. This would make for some confusion in the fact that Brooke would have had no reason to call Michael's house from a pay phone, leave a concerning message about their neighbor's, stage her own death, and then cut Michael's phone lines.
  
  
• Continuity: After the bombing at the end of the film, a red ford Taurus is seen driving down a thruway, the same car with visual resemblance to the one driven by Michael Faraday before the bombing.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The license plates in the state of Virginia did not have the same sequence of letters and numbers that they have in the movie. Usually, a Virginia license plate has either three letters in a row and then three numbers in a row, not mixed up like they are in the movie.
  
  
• Continuity: Towards the end when Michael is driving toward the U.S. capital building on Pennsylvania avenue the capital building is approximately 4 blocks away. In the next shot it is approximately 8 blocks away.
  
  

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