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Derailed (2005/I) More at IMDbPro »

• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When the police officer starts to tell Schine that he'd better not be in the alley when he comes back around the block, his lip movement doesn't match the words heard.
  
  
• Continuity: Although the card at the end of the film reads "December", the last shot is that of Charles's daughter running outside with fall leaves and trees all around her, clearly not a Chicago winter.
  
  
• Factual errors: Throughout the movie, each time the Chicago Metra train pulled into Union Station, the pa announcer kept saying that it was the end of the red line. The CTA (Chicago Transit Authority) uses color coded routes, and the Metra system uses actual named routes (Metra Milwaukee District North). Also, the view of the train entering the city shows it entering from the south, but Charles' briefcase tag says he lives in Wilmette which is north of the city.
  
  

• Continuity: When we view the trains from the outside, they are clearly double-decker trains. When viewed from the inside, they are single deck.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Lucinda and Charles are looking for a hotel the first hotel that Charles asks about is The Renaissance Hotel which is on Wacker Drive. Later when Lucinda asks the taxi driver to stop the cab the cab is again in front of The Renaissance going the opposite direction on Wacker. However, when the cab comes to a stop and they get out of the cab they are not standing out on Wacker Drive, nor in front of the Renaissance.
  
  
• Continuity: During the scene when Winston and Charles are talking the bar, when Winston tells Charles he will help him, he switches from holding a beer to a glass between shots.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Charles first misses his train, it is raining heavily on the platform. As the camera pulls back, you can see that other than on the platform, it is a bright, sunny day with no rain.
  
  
• Factual errors: The Rock Island route on Metra is colored red in the system map and it services as far south as Joliet. Lucinda mentions living in Lake Forest which is north of Chicago and serviced by UP-N (Green) line.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: In the scene when Charles is on the train platform watching the train leave, the camera moves behind him. In the reflection from the train's windows, the cameraman can be seen behind Charles.
  
  

• Continuity: SPOILER: After LaRoche shoots Winston in the car in the back of his head, his head hits the steering wheel. We get a shot where Charles moves Winston's head backward, and his face is filled with blood. Then in a later shot, we see the front of the car, with Winston's face facing the side window, and there's no blood at all.
  
  

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