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• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When George is asking Sam if the plan to take him out on the boat was true you can see George in the background moving his lips as if he is speaking but there is no audio to match this. This was corrected in the DVD.
  
  
• Continuity: When Marty proposes the truth or dare, he throws away his cigarette. But moments later (when George insults Clyde, Sam and Millie) he's holding a cigarette in his hand, yet we never see him light one.
  
  
• Continuity: When George is getting into the car with all the boys to go to the lake, he is wearing a gold chain, but once in the car, the chain is no longer around his neck.
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: When George is introduced to all the guys in the car, you can see his present to Sam reflected in the back window, although George is holding the present in his hand. The commentary claims that they used a second prop but didn't realize it was reflecting in the scene in the window.
  
  
• Continuity: When Millie is writing what to say to Sam on a first date, what she writes differs slightly from what she reads out loud. Whereas she says 'So, Sam, it's a beautiful day' as she writes the first item, when it cuts to the shot of the paper she's writing on, she's writing 'So, Sam, it's a really beautiful day'.
  
  
• Continuity: When George is lying on the shore and Clyde runs to shout for help, he stumbles and falls almost entirely into the water. A few shots later he stands facing the others and is seemingly dry, definitely too dry to have just been immersed in water.
  
  
• Continuity: When Millie refuses to cut her index finger and passes the knife to Marty, in the background you can see yellow tape tied to a tree. At the end of the film police have cordoned off an area with yellow tape where the body is buried.
  
  
• Continuity: When dropping Millie off at her house after returning from their misadventure, Millie exits the car with no socks and she is wearing her tennis shoes like clogs with her heels exposed. When she enters her house and climbs the stairs, her socks are on her and shoes cover her entire feet.
  
  
• Continuity: When Sam is talking to Rocky about calling off the prank they planned to play on George a utility boat can be seen in the background, to the left, even though they are supposed to be on the river alone.
  
  
• Continuity: When Marty pushes Sam and Millie's heads together. His cigarette is in his hand, then in his mouth and finally back in the hand.
  
  
• Continuity: Sam's shirt changes color several times, from blue to purple and back. This may just be a problem with color timing in the print.
  
  
• Continuity: The angle of their parked car with respect the barn is quite different later in the day, when the kids return from the river.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the scene in which Marty, Rocky, Kile and Jasper are in the Quickie-Mart, Jasper is consuming what appears at first to be a sauce in a green packet. After the camera focuses back on Jasper and Kile, it is clear that the sauce he is holding has changed to a yellow sauce in a clear packet. Also the hand in which he holds the sauce changes from right to left during that scene.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When they showed the 'Millie' character writing in her diary, she switched from being right-handed to left-handed and back. That scene is Millie in the MIRROR! Her gold bracelet is on her right wrist, the hand she writes with. In the mirror, it appears to be her left. Also, the table where she grabbed the pen with her toes was on HER right side. But in the mirror it looks like it was HER left side.
  
  
• Continuity: When the group arrive at the boat, Marty throws his bag into the boat, and then takes a beer out of his case. Then in the next shot, the beer and case have vanished and now he is lighting up two cigarettes instead.
  
  
• Continuity: When Sam is talking to Rocky about calling off the prank, the position of his hands on the oar he is holding keeps on changing, and in some close-ups his hands and the oar are not visible, when they should be.
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: When Millie looks at the slug crawling down the face of drowned George, you can clearly see his pulse.
  
  
• Continuity: SPOILER: After Marty proposes that they bury George's body, Clyde is walking away and in this shot Millie's arms are at her side. In the next shot they're crossed at her chest, then at her side once again.
  
  

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