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The Joy Luck Club (1993)

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• Factual errors: Thunder and lightning can't occur simultaneously unless you are extremely close to the strike.
  
  
• Continuity: June's hair moves from in front of her shoulder to behind it several times just before Suyuan gives her the necklace.
  
  
• Continuity: When Ying Ying is talking to Lena in Harold's apartment, Ying Ying's multi-strand pearl necklace is twisted in some shots and untwisted in others.
  
  

• Audio/visual unsynchronized: During a break in the Mah Jong game, Jun plays three notes on the piano. The notes go down the scale but her fingers move to the right.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Jun is at the piano for the recital, her fingers do not come down in time with the start of the music cue.
  
  
• Continuity: In one scene, a daughter is shown cutting the flesh out of her arm to make a soup for her dying mother. In subsequent scenes her arms are completely smooth.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When young Ying Ying's husband brings home one of his girlfriends, Ying Ying breaks a plate, sounding as if she's smashing it on hard floor. Yet the floor is covered with carpet.
  
  
• Factual errors: When June is playing in the piano recital, she says, in the voice-over, that she was playing Mozart. But the piece is the Dvorak Humoresque.
  
  

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