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The movie is set in 1995, yet Chuck's Jeep Cherokee is clearly at least a 1999 model. The newly styled front end first appeared in 1997 models, and the wheels were first available in 1999. The dashboard and instrument cluster are from the newer model. The front blinkers on the 1995 Cherokee were attached to the headlights, not on the front fender.
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In the theatrical version, the audio/visual sync is off when Chuck pounds coconuts against a large rock.
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When Chuck is lying on the beach and the first package rolls onto the beach, there are very few rocks. When he walks toward it, the camera cuts further out, and you see significantly more rocks.
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When the FedEx MD-11 is diving towards the ocean, the First Officer's altitude indicator (visible by his left shoulder) shows that the aircraft is climbing gently.
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When Chuck throws the boxed volleyball with his bloodied hand after the failed attempt to create fire, the box is right-side-up; since he bends down to pick it up, this means that the fingertips should be pointing down on the ball. However, when he looks at the ball soon after, the box is upright but the fingertips are pointing upwards.
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Chuck cuts the toes off of Albert's shoes. When he enters the cave for the first time, the toes aren't cut out.
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When Chuck is boarding the airplane after kissing Kelly goodbye, the aircraft's tail fin has no engine mounted to it. This proves that the airplane used in this shot was not an MD-11, which was used as the model for the cockpit scenes later in the movie. MD11s have an engine mounted on the tail fin, three thrust levers between the pilots, and 6 digital cockpit screens.
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In the scene where Chuck first finds the port-a-potty piece that washes up on shore, the first shot revealing his left thigh does not bear the long scar shown earlier in the movie. Yet in the scenes afterwards, the scar appears once again on his left thigh.
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The position of Chuck's shadow in the final scene changes between shots. When Chuck is standing on the crossroads, it changes a full 180 degrees.
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When Chuck is walking through the water to the cave for the first time you see a shadow on his right hand from someone or something standing just outside the view.
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The Dissolution of Marriage Agreement in one of the FedEx packages opened on the island is dated 23 December 1995, which was a Saturday, an unlikely day of the week for a legal document.
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When Chuck enters the cockpit, the altimeter selection of the Primary Flight Display should be completely brown because the plane is in a steep drive. It shows a pitch indication of zero, or level flight.
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When "Wilson" floats away, his "hair" is vertical. In real life, this is top-heavy. The hair would tip over, and it would float horizontal with the ocean.
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In Kelly's kitchen, she explains to Chuck that the Titans made the Super Bowl and "almost won" but for one yard. In fact, had the Titans scored, the score would have been 23-22 and the likely result would have been an extra point kick that would have tied the game.
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The plane that Chuck was on took off from Memphis, and crashed somewhere in the South Pacific. But at the end of the movie, he delivered the FedEx package he didn't open on the island to an address in Texas. While it seems odd that a package bound for Texas would be on an international flight from Memphis, the woman who lived there was actually the sender of the package and Chuck was returning it to her (hence the soundtrack playing Elvis Presley's "Return to Sender" when he's driving there). The same woman had sent a package at the beginning of the movie to her husband in St. Petersburg, Russia, with similar golden wings painted on it.
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When Chuck starts paddling his wooden raft towards the breakwater, palm trees can be seen repeatedly on a length of land that is apparently not part of his small island.
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When Chuck carves HELP in the sand with his foot, you can see the high tide mark of the sea weed is below the letters and the sand is obviously soft indicating it is above the high tide mark. However, in the next scene when the tide has come in and washed half the letters away the high tide sea weed mark is up above the letters.
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When Chuck compares his foot to Albert's shoe his toes hang over the top of the shoe. When Chuck puts the shoe on with the toes cut out, the shoe actually fits his foot. The toes being cut out was just a visual effect.
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