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88 Minutes (2007)

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• Continuity: Jack's Porsche has 15 spoke rims when it leaves the underground parking garage at his office. When he arrives at the university his car has 5 spoke rims.
  
  
• Errors in geography: Although the film is set in Seattle, a Shoppers Drug Mart store can be seen early in the movie. Shoppers Drug Mart is a Canadian chain of drugstores, the movie was shot in Vancouver, BC.
  
  
• Errors in geography: Although the film is set in Seattle, an orange "24 Hours" newsstand can be clearly seen when Jack Gramm is getting into the taxi at the beginning of the movie. 24 Hours is a newspaper published only in Vancouver, and Toronto.
  
  

• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The name Jon Forrester is spelled Jon at the beginning but in another scene it is spelled John on the name MSNBC interview.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: At 36'37" into the film, as Jack Gramm stops the motorbike at the car park barrier, a crew member can be seen in the background wearing combat patterned trousers and a black T shirt.
  
  
• Continuity: After Jack receives his first phone call whilst giving his lecture, he places his mobile phone screen down, then when it rings again it is facing up with the screen visible.
  
  
• Continuity: Around 45 minutes in to the film, Jack answers a cellphone, first with his left hand, then in the next shot its in his right hand, and in the last shot its back in his left.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The scene depicting Gramm's sister as a child took place when Gramm was in his twenties, which puts it 20 to 30 years ago. Despite this, modern vehicles are seen in the background.
  
  
• Continuity: Although most of the film transpires during "88 minutes", Jack's hair length changes between long and short several times.
  
  
• Continuity: After Jack’s Porsche gets broken into, you see a circular hole on this windshield, however when he is driving it out in the streets, the windshield is perfectly normal.
  
  
• Errors in geography: When Jack and Kim are out on the street to get to the Porsche, you can see a Roots store on the corner (directly behind them). There are no Roots stores in Seattle, and there are only four in all of United States, Beverly Hills CA, Aspen CO, Birmingham MI, and Park City UT.
  
  
• Factual errors: Loren was able to hold as well as lift the dean with the pulley. Frank and Jack shouldn't have had any trouble lifting her.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During the phone conversation between Gramm and Forrester on the live broadcast, the clock behind Jack switches from 11:09 in one scene to 11:12 in the next shot of Jack. And then re-switches back to 11:09 at the end of the call.
  
  
• Plot holes: In real life, it would be impossible to determine if the semen is Dr. Gramm's without comparing it to his own DNA, something that would require a warrant to obtain if not offered by Gramm. In any case, it takes much longer than one day to determine a DNA test's result, not the following day, as in the movie.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: After the warning about "88 minutes" is called in, a guy on a bike is seen cycling past. The sound of the bike is that of a person coasting (the ratchet is clearly heard) -- not cycling.
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: When Dr. Gramm's Porsche explodes, it is clearly a mock-up. This is especially visible when the bottom of the car is shown, revealing an obviously fake exhaust system.
  
  
• Continuity: SPOILER: Leelee's heavy eye makeup is on before her death scene and gone after.
  
  

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