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All the President's Men (1976) More at IMDbPro »

• Factual errors: When he phones the Library of Congress, there is a close-up of Woodward dialing "1414". The phone number of the Library of Congress in 1972 was 426-5000. Presumably this shot was meant to show him phoning the White House at 456-1414.
  
  
• Errors in geography: At one point, Woodward is shown driving east in front of the White House, but then ending up immediately afterwards at the Kennedy Center, which is west of the White House.
  
  
• Boom mic visible: At bottom left, when Bradlee calls out "Woodstein!"
  
  

• Crew or equipment visible: Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) goes outside the offices of The Washington Post to make a more private phone call from a phone booth. Just as he's entering the booth, you can see the face of one of the crew members reflected off the metal strip of the booth frame.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: While reviewing the contents of Dardas's file in the District Attorney's office.
  
  
• Continuity: When Woodward and Bernstein are in Woodward's apartment, and Bernstein throws Woodward a cookie, Woodward puts it down, and the position of the cookie on the desk changes repeatedly between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bernstein and Woodward meet in Sloan's house the cushions on the sofa alter position between shots.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When Woodward and Bernstein discuss breaking the Haldemen's story at McDonald's, the wrapper for a Quarter Pounder sandwich is clearly visible. The Quarter Pounder was not introduced until 1974, while the Haldeman story was published before April 1973 (Haldeman's resignation).
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Bob Woodward first appears in court to cover the appearance of the men caught at Watergate, the voice of actor George Wyner was dubbed over the voice of the first lawyer Woodward is actually talking to in the scene.
  
  
• Continuity: The overhead shots of Woodward's car driving out of the parking ramp on two occasions, weeks apart show the same people coming and going on the sidewalk and all the same cars parked the same way in the garage.
  
  
• Continuity: As Bernstein is waiting to see Dardis, a man enters and is told by the secretary to go in and that he's expecting him. But moments later after Bernstein tricks the secretary and barges into Dardis' office, the man is gone but was never seen leaving.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Woodward and Bernstein go to see the bookkeeper the level in the pitcher of tea changes from front to back camera shots. Also the newspaper in the front of the pitcher appears and disappears between camera shots.
  
  
• Factual errors: In the first note to Woodward from Deep Throat, he says to meet at 2 AM in the garage. Woodward takes a cab and gets out in front of the Kennedy Center to switch taxis. At that time, there is a crowd of people leaving the Kennedy Center, as if leaving a performance. No performance at the Kennedy Center would have gone that late.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: As Woodward is ending a call from a phone booth, a car in the street behind it clearly slows down and two people look out presumably to watch the scene being filmed.
  
  
• Continuity: When Woodward and Bernstein visit Judy Hoback to press for confirmation of her information, there is an iced tea pitcher on the table where she sits. The liquid level in the pitcher noticeably fluctuates from shot to shot.
  
  
• Factual errors: In a 2007 web discussion on Watergate, reporter Bob Woodward gave the following answer when asked for the biggest factual error in this movie: "The movie is an incredibly accurate portrait of what happened. To limit the number of characters, the city editor, Barry Sussman, was merged into another character. That is regretable, and something Carl Bernstein and I should have fought, because Sussman played a critical role in guiding and directing our reporting."
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Bernstein is interviewing Judy Hobeck she says that in a 2 day period, 6 million dollars came in. When Woodward and Bernstein were going over the notes of the interview, Bernstein says that in a 6 day period, 6 million dollars came in.
  
  
• Continuity: When Woodward and Bernstein are discussing how to go about getting the bookkeeper to tell all, at Bernstein's apartment, Bernstein grabs a cookie from a jar and throws it to Woodward. Bernstein's own cookie is in his right hand but then turns into a cigarette, then a cookie again, then nothing, then a cookie, then a cigarette...
  
  
• Continuity: When Carl Bernstein interviews Segretti in his apartment, the two go out onto Segretti's balcony. When Bernstein sits down his arms are on the armrests of the chair. Then suddenly he has his right hand tucked into his pants and in his left hand he is holding a lit cigarette.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: After Bernstein and Woodward talk to Dean about why he revoked his statement, you can see people walking into the hallway, startling when they see the camera and then walk past the wall as if they could keep out of the shot.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Bernstein is handed a photo, the woman who hands him the folder looks toward the camera as she walks off, as if to make sure she's no longer in the shot.
  
  

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