Goofs for
"Angels in America" (2003) More at IMDbPro »

• Anachronisms: The Coke can from which Joe drinks in the 1985 time setting (outside Justice with Lou) has the label "Coca-Cola Classic", rather than "Coke" or "New Coke" (introduced on 23 April that year). The design of the can is from 2002, not 1969.
  
  
• Continuity: When Louis takes Joe to his Alphabet City (tenement) apartment, he opens his door which is in a long line of doors down the hallway. Once inside, he suddenly has two large windows, front and back, where there shouldn't be windows because there are more apartments on either side of his.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The Doritos bag Harper has in the Mormon Visitors Center didn't exist in 1985.
  
  

• Continuity: When Belize pulls Roy away from Joe in the hospital hallway, Roy's hand jumps from Joe's shirt to down at his side between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When Belize puts the "goop" on Prior, in one shot Prior's hospital gown is off his shoulder, in the next, its completely on.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The NYC subways and its signs were modern rather than from the 1980s.
  
  
• Errors in geography: Hannah arrives at Clark St station, but when she walks along the platform a sign for 42nd St, where the scene was presumably filmed, can be seen.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Prior says that "Thomas Jefferson died on his birthday". Jefferson died on 4 July 1826 but was born on 13 April 1743.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The movie takes place in 1985, yet the funeral in Perestroika shows a drag queen dressed as a Barbra Streisand circa 1993.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When Hannah is trying to hail a cab for Prior outside the Mormon Visitors' Center, the taxis that drive past them are from the 1980s but the clearly visible cabs in the background are from the 1990s/2000s.
  
  
• Continuity: When Lou is saying kaddish for the dead Roy Cohn, Roy's mouth goes from open to closed to open again.
  
  
• Anachronisms: Martin Heller mentions Democrats having retaken the Senate. In fact, Democrats didn't retake the Senate until 1987, and the movie is supposed to take place in 1985.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Prior waits for Louis to approach in the park the music playing is '90s hip-hop, not mid-'80s rap.
  
  
• Anachronisms: View of Jacob Javits Plaza (Federal Plaza) is shown. However, the park design that used the curved benches wasn't installed until 1992 when the film takes place in 1985
  
  

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