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Diane Lane and Viggo Mortensen in A Walk on the Moon (1999)

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A Walk on the Moon

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Continuity

The helicopter that flies over the crowd at Woodstock vanishes.
When the Kantrowitzs are packing the car in the beginning of the movie they put a dish drying rack with lots of stuff in the backseat of the car twice.
When Marty finds out Pearl is having an affair, he throws the milk container against the wall getting milk everywhere. Later in the scene Marty sits down and the floor behind him is clean.
When Pearl goes to say goodbye to Walker in his garden, there's a shot of him, and his jacket is on the fence. But in the next shot, she's carrying the jacket, and she's the one who puts it on the fence.

Factual errors

During the scene where people are watching the moon landing, the TV image shows the Moon's surface taken from the LEM as it descends and lands. This video was not available for viewing until after the astronauts returned to Earth.
On July 20, 1969, the moon was only 6 days old - roughly a half moon as viewed from the film's location - and would have set by 11 pm, but on the night of the moon landing, they show a full moon, high in the sky.
In the Woodstock scene where we see Pearl and Walker standing together there's the announcement, "Good morning! What we had in mind is breakfast in bed for 400,000" and Richie Havens is singing his "on the spot" improvised song, "Freedom" which was actually the last song after his very long (almost three hours playing) musical set as he opened the festival on Friday at 5PM. The breakfast announcement was made by 'comic' Wavy Gravy on Sunday morning describing the "granola" gruel that was created/invented to feed (as many as possible) the 400K attendees at the festival.
It is night when they people are watching the landing. In fact, it was the middle of the afternoon in New York -- 4:17 p.m. -- when Apollo 11 landed on the moon.

Incorrectly regarded as goofs

In the scenes showing the crowds at Woodstock there are numerous young men with crew cuts or other close-to-the-scalp haircuts, which would not have been the case at the Woodstock Festival.

NOT A GOOF. In fact there were many men at Woodstock with very short hair. That is evident in all footage hat can be found from the event. Not all men and boys who attended Woodstock had long hair.

I defy you to cite one scene in the Woodstock movie in which the young men have crew cuts, or anything close.

Miscellaneous

We hear "Uncle John's Band" (Grateful Dead) which wasn't performed until December 1969.

Anachronisms

When we first meet the Blouse Man in his bus, he is listening to the Grateful Dead playing the song 'Ripple' on the radio. The movie takes place in summer of 1969, but the song was written in 1970.

Audio/visual unsynchronised

In the bedroom, when Walker drops the needle on the record, we have already heard the opening bars to "White Bird".

Character error

Danny is reported to have been stung by wasps (which do not lose their stingers), but Danny was actually stung by hornets (which do lose their stingers).

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