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Son of Rambow (2007) More at IMDbPro »

• Factual errors: When Will watches the pirated version of First Blood (1982) that Lee illegally filmed in the cinema, we see the cinema-curtains open on the film's first-credit. All films screened in British cinemas at that time would legally have to start with the British Board of Film Classification's classification certificate directly before the start of the film. If Lee did not start recording until after the certificate were displayed, then the curtains would already have been open when the opening credits began.
  
  
• Anachronisms: Whilst in hospital, Lee watches Jan Pinkava win the Young Film-Maker's Competition on "Screen Test" (1970). In reality this took place in 1980, three years before the film is set.
  
  
• Continuity: About midway through the movie, during the "flying dog" scene, the sky can be seen changing from cloudy to blue to cloudy again, almost immediately. Although this can happen in Britain quite often, even in that part of the world it can't happen *that* fast.
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: During the "Flying Dog" scene there is clearly no wind, but the kite holding the dog clearly has no problem flying.
  
  
• Anachronisms: During a party at the school, they are playing Siouxsie And The Banshees' "Peek-A-Boo", which wasn't released until 1988. The film time line is 1983, five years earlier.
  
  
• Anachronisms: In Lee Carter's kitchen a flat-screen TV is clearly seen in the near background, turned on and mounted on the wall (at 14:53, 26:23, and 57:07).
  
  
• Anachronisms: The ambulance that brings Lee Carter to the movie theatre showing Yentl has an E registration number plate (license plate). That dates it to 1987-88, after the 1983 date the movie is set in.
  
  
• Continuity: When Will is getting the stew pot out of the oven, he places it on the table using a cloth with two pockets (at 29:25). In the next shot from behind (at 29:47), he is taking the lid off with his bare hand, but in the next shot from the front (at 29:49), the lid is being held through the cloth.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The skateboard that Didier Revol is seen riding is of a design not found in England until the early 1990s.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene in the church, when Didier Revol is demonstrating his acting to Will Proudfoot, he has a cigarette in his left hand. However, when he "shoots" himself in the head and falls to the ground the cigarette vanishes. The smoke from it can be seen in the foreground in one shot (at 53:47), but there is never a moment when Didier puts it down.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The brick wall at school shakes as Lee Carter is pushed against it by Didier's entourage when they think he is attacking Will Proudfoot. (According to director Garth Jennings at 58:10 in the DVD commentary, it was a fake wall built by the production when the screenplay called for action to take place in a narrow corridor.)
  
  
• Continuity: When Lee Carter is swimming underwater to save the drowning Will Proudfoot, the top of his undies can be seen above the beltline of his trousers and they are black. However, when the boys surface and collapse on the shore, his undies are white.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When Didier leaves to go back to France, as the bus pulls out of the school and all of the children are chasing after it, we can clearly see the yellow and blue European Union license plate on the rear of the bus. At the time the movie is set, the European Union had not been established.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The First Blood marquee in the opening shot says that the film has a "15" rating. The BBFC did not implement these certificates until 1984/85 with the introduction of the Video Recordings Act. In reality the film was rated "AA," which means "Passed as suitable only for exhibition to persons of fourteen years and over. When a programme includes an 'AA' film no persons under fourteen years can be admitted," so essentially it's pre-VRA equivalent.
  
  

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