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• Factual errors: The prisoner is described as carrying an "Axis IV Dissociative Disorder." In psychiatric diagnosis, psychiatric disorders fall under Axis I, personality disorders and mental retardation fall under Axis II, medical disorders fall under Axis III, a general summary of psychosocial stressors (eg. health problems, money problems, or family problems, and rated as None, Mild, Moderate, or Severe) fall under Axis IV, and the patient's Global Assessment of Function score (GAF: 0 to 100) falls under Axis V. Dissociative Disorder is an Axis I diagnosis.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The newspapers shown during the opening credits are quite accurate, revealing additional information about the killer's background. In one case, though, two columns show exactly the same text.
  
  
• Continuity: When Alice is first hit by the car, the car pulls her down, and you can see her start to go under the car. When Alice is hit from Ed's P.O.V., Alice hits the hood of the car, rolls over the top, then slides off the trunk onto the road.
  
  

• Crew or equipment visible: When the two convicts take control of the prisoner transport car, the stunt driver (dressed in a light blue top, unlike the prison escort driver) can be clearly seen bringing the skidding car to a controlled stop.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Paris backs her car into the power pole, the gearshift can be clearly seen in the "Park" position.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Ginny is in the locked bathroom, and Lou is being killed outside of the door, the door is shaken and the slide lock falls apart, yet the door remains locked.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Caroline is talking on the phone while underway in the limo, the digital speedometer clearly reads 0 mph.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Ed is driving just before hitting Alice, the camera is looking over his shoulder. You can clearly see that the digital speedometer reads 0.
  
  
• Errors in geography: At the end of the movie they are supposed to be in Frostproof, Fl, but as the camera pans back there are mountains in the background of the orange grove. The shot looks a whole lot more like California, and not Florida.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the second scene when Larry is watching Wheel of Fortune, he yells at the contestant to buy a vowel, and then tells him to ask for an "N". But just before then when they showed the TV screen, N was already guessed and on the board.
  
  
• Continuity: When Paris is bending down picking up her items from the vending machine, her black underwear is clearly seen sticking above the back of her jeans. A few scenes later when she is closing the front door in the motel reception, her underwear is again visible and it has changed to white.
  
  
• Continuity: Just before Ginny gets up to open the bathroom door to check on Lou, a close up shot of the lock slider shows the lever pointing down, yet when she goes to move the slider the lever is centered again.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When discussing with Paris why he left the LAPD, Ed talks about a Mexican girl and describes her as "Pregnant, infected with AIDS". This is a common error - AIDS (Acquired ImmunoDeficiency Syndrome) is a symptom caused by HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), not an infection itself. A person may have or suffer from AIDS and/or be infected by HIV but saying someone is infected with AIDS would be akin to saying someone with a head cold is "infected" with a blocked nose.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The car used by the Nevada Department of Prisons had a blue license plate with white letters. These are actually personalized plates issued by the Nevada DMV. In Nevada, all state government owned vehicles have the standard license plate and they all have "EX" as the first two letters.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: After Alice died, Ed closes her eyes and at this time you can see her eye as an overlay image on Ed's hand.
  
  

• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: SPOILER: Various inconsistencies, improbabilities and impossibilities in the motel scenes are not actual errors. This is all happening inside Malcolm's head, so the rules and geography of the real world don't necessarily apply.
  
  
• Continuity: SPOILER: In the flashback showing how Rhodes killed his police escort, the policeman's foot is sticking out of the trunk. Rhodes then slams down the lid without moving the leg out of the way.
  
  
• Continuity: SPOILER: After Maine (Gary Busey) is murdered, the remaining survivors are in room three discussing the situation, there's a clock on the bedside cabinet beside Ginny that reads 12.20. For the next several minutes (at least three minutes running time) that clock remains at 12.20.
  
  

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