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Lolita (1997) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: After Humbert slips on the bananas in the hotel room and tackles Lolita on the bed, her lipstick changes three or four times
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Reflected in the car window as the car rolls away.
  
  
• Continuity: The blood disappears from Clare Quilty's face when he falls to the floor.
  
  

• Anachronisms: A suspiciously modern water-tower is briefly visible behind Humbert during the car accident.
  
  
• Continuity: During the murder itself, at no point is blood splattered on his face, yet all the flashbacks and endings show his face splattered.
  
  
• Continuity: During Humbert's second meeting with Miss Pratt and Reverend Rigger, he puts down the cake he is eating twice without picking it up in between.
  
  
• Continuity: In the jawbreaker scene, the jawbreaker is at first bright yellow, then in the next shot, is white.
  
  
• Continuity: Lolita speaks to man in all white car while at gas station, but both before and after this scene, that car is black and white.
  
  
• Continuity: Lolita and Hum arrive in gas station with license plates which are black with white numbers. When the tire blows on the road, the car is shown with different plates beginning with the letters "AC".
  
  
• Anachronisms: The film set around 1947 features a 'Magic Fingers' (brand) vibrating bed. However, this was a 1958 invention by former salesman John Houghtaling.
  
  
• Anachronisms: Charlotte threatens to "ground" Lolita. Though the term was known to airmen it would not assume its current familiar meaning for many years.
  
  
• Anachronisms: Lolita and a schoolmate leave each other with "See you later, alligator / In a while, crocodile," an exchange about a decade too early.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Quilty plays the concerto's opening theme on the piano, his hands are ascending, but the music is descending.
  
  

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