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The Birdcage (1996) More at IMDbPro »

• Revealing mistakes: The transmission selector on the Senator's car is in park while they're driving to South Beach.
  
  
• Continuity: The flames on the candles on the wall when Albert's wig almost falls off.
  
  
• Continuity: The amount of soup in the bowls at the dinner table.
  
  

• Continuity: There are two very obvious cuts during the beginning flyby, which is assembled to look like one long shot from the opening over the ocean to the close up of the stage inside the club. The first is when the shot pans down to the street in front of the club. Most of the cars shift to the right and some are different. Then again as the shot approaches the front door, the action inside the door cuts to a different shot.
  
  
• Continuity: Armand's sweat on his shirt while talking to his son.
  
  
• Continuity: When Armand and Val are talking, the door behind Armand is alternately open/closed between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When Armand discovers that Val is getting married, he quickly drinks all of his wine. But when he gets up to refill his glass, it appears that there is still wine there.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): 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.
  
  
• Continuity: 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.
  
  
• Continuity: Position of the wine bottle changes in Val's hand as he talks with Armand. Then after Val sets the bottle down, we see the back label in all the two-shots of Val and Armand and the front label in the one-shots of Val.
  
  
• Continuity: In the 'How 'bout those Dolphins?' scene, Armand teaches Albert how to be a man. While sitting at a table, the positioning of sugar packets on the table changes.
  
  
• Continuity: The evening that Val arrives home, Albert comes upstairs in a fit. While screaming "Where is he? Where's your little Chippie," Albert throws a product of the stage skit at Armand and, as a result, the candle on the table goes out. In the next shot, the candle is lit again.
  
  
• Factual errors: 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.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: During the dinner scene, when Armand is running to the kitchen, a guy is visible through the round door window.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the kitchen scene where Armand and Val realize Agador never prepared an entrée, Armand slips and falls while bringing the peso 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.
  
  
• Errors in geography: Armand indicates that his cemetery plot is on Key Biscayne. There are no cemeteries, nor would there ever be in this highly up-scale, 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.
  
  

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