Goofs for
Idle Hands (1999) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: When Anton pulls away after hitting Debi with the Ford, both hands can be seen on the steering wheel.
  
  
• Continuity: Both hands are visible. After Curtis and Tiffany are found in the car, Anton places his right hand on Mick's shoulder, then his left hand as he's walking away.
  
  
• Continuity: When Mick is feeding the "head" on the chair cheese balls, the number of cheese balls laying in front of the head changes every time the camera cuts back and forth.
  
  

• Continuity: When Anton and his dog, Duke, are under the sheets, their heads are at about the same spot. But when it cuts just before Anton goes to get the phone, his dog's head is not under the covers.
  
  
• Continuity: Before Anton screams that they're out of milk, his pipe on the bottle disappears and then reappears.
  
  
• Continuity: The X-Marks on Debi's map changes over the shot.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: Anton disconnects the blue mouthpiece to his "asthma inhaler" and begins to light up, however the mouth piece is knocked out of his hand when Mick reaches through the ground and grabs Anton. When Anton stands up, the blue mouth piece is still attached.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Pnub is trying to run out of the door after Anton kills Mick, he opens the door for a second and a light stand is visible.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: After slipping on the blood at the base of the stairs Anton's mother's knee pads can be seen as she gets up to run up stairs.
  
  
• Continuity: When Anton microwaves the hand and blood spatters on the inside of the microwave, the position and pattern of the blood on the microwave window changes between shots.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the camera shows a shot of the newspaper clipping pinned on the wall in Debbie's van, the heading and the first paragraph are about the murders in Bolen, while the rest of the text is about the Nixon Watergate Scandal.
  
  
• Continuity: When Anton awakes in the beginning the mouthpiece is on his inhaler, when he goes downstairs to the kitchen it is missing, it then reappears when he uses it as a pipe.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Obvious use of a painted copper pipe elbow to replace the real plastic inhaler mouthpiece when Anton lights up his hash pipe.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Molly ties Tonya's whip to the crossbeam to escape the ventilation duct, but when she climbs down it you can see that it’s a climbing rope.
  
  

• Factual errors: SPOILER: After Anton cut off his hand, Mick runs into the laundry room and grabs an iron. He then uses it to cauterize the wound but the iron was not plugged in to any outlet.
  
  

Related Links