Big Wednesday (1978)
Goofs
Anachronisms
During the 1962 party at Jack's house, his mother is reading the book 'Catch-22', a book first published in 1961. However, the copy she is reading is an edition that had not yet been printed. The photo of author Joseph Heller on the back of the jacket is clearly from years later than 1962.
It is 1965, but 1970s cars are visible as they drive to the military entrance processing station.
Character error
During the party scene a girl screams "Waxer, no!" when another character, Crusher, not Waxer, attacks her.
Continuity
Jack's induction notice says he is to serve in the United States Marine Corps. When he comes home from Vietnam he is an Army Green Beret.
(at around 40 mins) Matt throws his raggy cloth at the oncoming car's windscreen. It misses and hits the top of the car's side window. In the next shot, the cloth is firmly across the whole bottom half of the car's front windscreen.
Errors in geography
At 1:37:55, when the shot fades into the sun half above the horizon on the morning of "Big Wednesday", that shot is showing the sun setting into the ocean - as it does on the West Coast - so it is a sunset, not a sunrise.
