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Robin Williams, Gene Hackman, Nathan Lane, and Dianne Wiest in The Birdcage (1996)

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The Birdcage

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Continuity

When Armand discovers that Val is getting married, he quickly drinks all of his white wine. But when he gets up to refill his glass, it appears that there is still wine in it.
After Albert enters the kitchen, the placement of Armand's Turkish coffee and newspaper change from where they were immediately prior to Albert's entrance.
At the beginning of the movie, Barbara tells her dad she's getting married, and he cries out "You can't, you're not even 18!" Then when Barbara and her parents are having dinner with her fiance's "parents", her father says "Well, she's only 18...".
Armand puts the small green statue in a desk to hide it, but earlier when they were moving items out of the house prior to the senator's arrival, the statue was put into a box to be taken away.
The color of the eggs in the soup at dinner changes between shots.

Factual errors

When Senator Keeley is about to try to leave the apartment, he says "I hope this doesn't influence your vote." (to Armand and Albert) Senator Keeley is a senator from Ohio and Armand and Albert live in Florida, so they wouldn't be able to vote for him anyway (unless he was running for President which isn't referenced in the movie)
Examining the books on the shelf at Armand's home, the senator's wife remarks that he has the complete set of Nancy Drew books. While the blue-bound books on the top shelf might be Nancy Drew books, there are nowhere near enough of them to complete the set. All the other books on the shelf have binding of different colors and would not be books from that series.

Revealing mistakes

The transmission selector on the Senator's car is in park while they're driving to South Beach.
At several points, a "no parking" sign is seen right above a parking meter on the street.

Crew or equipment visible

During the dinner scene, when Armand is running to the kitchen, a man is visible through the round door window.

Errors in geography

When Armand is calling Katherine from his car, he is supposedly leaving Miami Beach on his way to Miami. But the cruise ships in the background clearly show that he is heading east to Miami Beach *from* Miami.
When in Katherine's office, a beautiful view of the mountains is seen through the windows. This is clearly not shot in Florida, which has no hills over 345 feet. The mountains are in fact clouds. However as it is a painted backdrop they never move which makes them appear like mountains.
When Senator Keeley is talking about his trip through the Virginia country side he refers to taking 75. 75 is either in reference to Route 75 or Interstate 75. Neither run through Virginia. Interstate 75 is the closer of the two, but runs through Kentucky. Keeley mentions driving through Virginia and Tennessee, this means he most likely took I-81, which would fit his description of Virginia pretty well.
Armand indicates that his cemetery plot is on Key Biscayne. There are no cemeteries, nor would there ever be, in this highly upscale, resort community that is an island "key." Key Biscayne is at best, a few feet above sea level, precluding ever having burials on the island secondary to the water table.

Character error

In the kitchen scene where Armand and Val realize Agador never prepared an entrée, Armand slips and falls while bringing the sweet-and-sour peasant soup pot back into the dining room; as he then tells Val "Go, go, she'll be here any minute, go", he is clearly laughing.
Armand broke down when he discovered that Agador hadn't prepared an entrée for dinner. Armand inexplicably forgot that he owned the restaurant downstairs and could easily have had dinner sent up. On the other hand, when the kitchen is shown at the beginning of the film, one of the staff drops food on the floor and attempts to pick it up and put it back on the plate... so he may not trust his own kitchen.
After Albert and Armand walk into the house being redecorated, Albert storms off. Armand takes him to a sidewalk cafe, and Albert says "You're obviously not a cultural attache..." but Albert wouldn't have known about that.
In the bakery, Albert says "the Schnecken beckons". He should have said, with perfect rhyme, "the Schnecken beckon.". In Yiddish/German, Schnecken is plural. It's a sweet pastry rolled in the shape of a snail, hence the name, which in German means snail. Singular Schnecke, plural Schencken.
The senator tells Spartacus, "I don't really drink," but he poured himself a whiskey a few minutes earlier in a very habitual way.

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