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Owning Mahowny (2003) More at IMDbPro »

• Anachronisms: Movie takes place in 1980-1982, however Air Canada jets seen in the background at the airport are painted in a design first introduced in the mid-to-late-'90s.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: In Toronto, with no other source of large sums of money, Mahowny converts a customer's $200,000 withdrawal to $300,000 to steal the excess. Yet when he arrives in Atlantic City, the cage person acknowledges his payment of $100,000. In 1980, $100,000 US would have cost at least $115,000 Canadian.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the scenes where several yellow Metro Toronto Police cars appear together, at least three different shades of yellow paint are visible. (The police changed to white and blue cars a few years after the period of the movie because the yellow paint they'd been using was withdrawn; presumably the filmmakers could not find enough cars of the right shade.)
  
  

• Anachronisms: Even though the movie takes place in 1982, the Le Biftheque Steak House restaurant is clearly visible in several of the opening scenes. That restaurant did not open in Toronto until 1999.
  
  
• Continuity: After flying from Toronto the detective is on the phone seeking information on the flight of 7956-Whiskey, the presumed tail number of the jet but in the next scene Mahowny is shown leaving the plane and its tail number is C-FHGC. This indicates a Canadian registered aircraft rather than the American registered aircraft the detective was asking about (which would also have been prefixed with the letter N).
  
  
• Anachronisms: The Chevrolet Caprice driven by Lock is a late-'80s to 1990 model. The film is set in 1982.
  
  
• Anachronisms: While listening to sports scores on the radio shortly after his arrest in 1982, the sportscaster gives the score of the Montreal Alouettes game. The Alouettes folded after the 1981 season. The current Alouettes began playing in 1996.
  
  
• Factual errors: In the blackjack scene where Dan gives Doug $40k to hold (two stacks of purple $500 chips) to hold "no matter what", Dan's 9h9d (18 total) hand on 3rd base is improperly dealt. Several important casino procedures are violated by the dealer, which would never happen in real life. First, the dealer never asks nor receives any hand signal from Dan to either split the 9's or stand. She simply skips the action on that hand, and turns up her down card. Then, she kills the hand (9h9d) without even looking at it, leaving the ~$4k bet. Dan also ignores this hand. In real life, the dealer must look at each hand, and indicate the outcome by hand signal to the player and surveillance camera (eye-in-the-sky).
  
  

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