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The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: Royal's cigarette jumps from his hand to the ashtray repeatedly when he is having a conference with his three children.
  
  
• Continuity: When Royal and Pagoda first meet in front of the hot-dog stand, the blind man with a dog sitting on a bench behind them has sunglasses in one shot and no sunglasses in the next.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: A crew member is reflected on a red car as the camera cranes down outside the Tenenbaum household before Etheline and Henry's wedding.
  
  

• Continuity: The large snowflakes that settle on Royal when he is kicked out of the house disappear and reappear between shots (it is not consistent with their melting and being replaced by fresh ones).
  
  
• Continuity: When Margot gets her finger chopped off, the log she's holding jumps from her left hand to her right immediately before it is chopped.
  
  
• Continuity: When Margot and Royal are watching the Peter Bradley Show together in Ritchie's room, the door to the hallway is clearly open. However, when Ritchie enters the room from the hallway, he has to open the (now fully closed) door.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Reflected on police car at the end of the movie, when Elijah 'Eli' Cash is being interrogated by a policeman.
  
  
• Continuity: During the tent scene, a Rolling Stones record is playing. The two songs played consecutively are "She Smiled Sweetly" and "Ruby Tuesday". It is clear that no tracks are skipped. Although both songs are on the Rolling Stones' album "Between the Buttons", these songs have never appeared consecutively on any Stones' release.
  
  
• Continuity: When Kumar and Royal are in the game closet, there is an shot of one of the Dalmatian mice running across a shelf filled with games. The games in this shot are arranged in a completely different order than in the rest of the scene (and the previous game closet scene).
  
  
• Continuity: In the tent, Margot places the phonograph needle in the middle of one side of the Rolling Stones album. However, when the song ends, the needle is shown at the end of the first track.
  
  
• Factual errors: Artist Elliott Puckette's name is badly misspelled in the credits (her paintings appear in the film).
  
  
• Continuity: When Pagoda stabs Royal outside the house, we see him holding the knife in his right hand as he opens the door with his left. When it cuts to a wider shot of him stabbing Royal, the knife is in his left hand.
  
  
• Continuity: when Royal takes Ari and Uzi on their adventure and they are riding the Garbage truck, the opening shot shows a side view of the trio. In this shot, Royal is not wearing his cap in following shots, Royal is wearing his cap backwards.
  
  
• Continuity: During Richie's attempted suicide he has barely begun to shave his beard before he slashes his arms. In the next scene at the hospital he is clean shaved. It is doubtful they would have shaved his beard clean at the hospital or allowed him the use of a razor to do it himself the very same night he attempted suicide.
  
  
• Continuity: During Royal's funeral scene, Henry Sherman's son Walter, a U.S. Navy Lieutenant, has fewer medal ribbons on his uniform than he did during the wedding scenes earlier on in the film. In the earlier scenes he has 6 medal ribbons, in the funeral scene he only has 4.
  
  
• Continuity: When Richie is seated and waiting for Margot to pick him up at the passenger ship terminal, the shot shows several sailors wearing dress white uniforms walk by behind him. After a shot of Margot, the next shot of Richie shows a porter behind him pushing a baggage cart. The sailors are nowhere to be seen.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During the tennis match scene where Richie has a breakdown after Margot's wedding, the friend's box shows the entire Tenenbaum family with Chas, his wife, and his two very young children, Ari and Uzi. The match is set in the late 70's or early 80's, so if the children had already been born at the time, they would be in their early 20's in 2001, when the movie is actually set.
  
  

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