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Free Willy (1993) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: The park owner loses his bag of popcorn as he runs to investigate Willy banging the side of his tank.
  
  
• Continuity: When Jesse is riding Willy, first he is completely wet and then suddenly his hair is dry while the rest of him is wet.
  
  
• Factual errors: Killer whales only jump over things when they know how deep the water is on the other side. The final scene (Willy's jump over the port wall) would be impossible for a real whale.
  
  

• Continuity: When Jesse is with Willy he has long hair and when he is not with the whale he has visibly shorter hair.
  
  
• Continuity: When Jesse first feeds Willy, he throws a headless fish into his tank. When Willy brings it back to him, it has a head.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Rae and Jesse were in sorting fish to give to Willy, Rae says that they give Willy the good fish and not the "bad fish" (fish that were cut up and had no head). However, Jesse is seen putting some "bad fish" in the good fish pile.
  
  
• Continuity: When Willy and Jesse are pulled out of the tank, both are soaked. But as they put Willy onto the trailer, he is still wet, but Jesse is completely dry.
  
  
• Continuity: When Willy is being brought out of the tank the water level is shown at 8 ft. But in the next shot you see Jessie and Rae getting Willy in the net, the water level is marked off at 11 ft.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: When Willy is jumping over the stone wall at the end of the movie, the bottom of the actual whale does not match the pattern of the CGI whale that lands the jump.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Randolph is using the crane to lift Willy out of the tank you can see the reflection of a man in the crane window.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Willy is frequently referred to by characters as a whale. Despite the common name 'killer whale', orcas are dolphins.
  
  

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