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Jawbreaker (1999)

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• Continuity: When Fern and Courtney are talking about Fern's new name, Fern's Diet Coke jumps back and forth from her hand to the table between cuts.
  
  
• Continuity: When the girls are chatting about what they can do to cover up the death of Elizabeth, Julie's glasses jump from her lap to the top of her head between cuts.
  
  
• Continuity: While at the lunch table, Vylette's purse repeatedly from under her arm to the left of her arm between shots.
  
  

• Continuity: When Courtney and Marcie are outside Ms. Sherwood's car, Courtney's on the left, and Marcie's on the right. When Ms. Sherwood drives off, Courtney is on the right, Marcie is on the left.
  
  
• Continuity: When Julie and Courtney talk in the cafeteria, Julie's hair is alternately covering/not covering her ears between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: At the lunch table, Marcie puts her compact away twice.
  
  
• Continuity: When Courtney is interrogating Fern in Liz's house, Julie offers to take Fern home, but Courtney stops her. Julie runs into Courtney's arm, knocking her sweater strap off her shoulder and revealing her bra strap. In the very next shot, Julie's sweater strap is back in place.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: At the end of the film when the entire student body is pelting Courtney with corsages, we see several students throwing upwards of five different corsages at her.
  
  
• Continuity: When the newly-created Vylette walks into the school hallway for the first time, we clearly see her wearing a pair of coral-colored high-heeled pumps. The shot of her entering the cafeteria however clearly shows her wearing red low-heeled scuffs, then when she's seated the high-heeled pumps are back.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the scene where the girls are carrying Liz's corpse up the stairs, when Marcie plops Liz on the bed you can clearly see Liz's eye's blink twice.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Liz's parents return home and open the front door, if you look in the background you can clearly see that it does not match with a "real outside setting" for the neighborhood. The background is very bright and blue.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene where Marcie and Courtney are staging Liz's death scene Marcie and Courtney continuously switch positions from the left side of the bed to the right repeatedly.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the scene where Marcie and Courtney are staging Liz's death when they put their yellow gloved on Liz's head is turned towards Marcie, then when the scene cuts back Liz is facing Courtney.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene where the girls open the trunk of Courtney's car we can see that Liz is almost completely covered in bruises and her skin is pale, almost white. But as they walk through the pool area and up the stairs you can clearly see that suddenly her skin tone/bruises are completely gone. When they throw her on the bed suddenly the makeup and bruises are back.
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: While the girls are talking just before they open the door to Fern Mayo in Liz's room, you can clearly see Liz's stomach moving due to breathing.
  
  

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