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The Perfect Storm (2000) More at IMDbPro »

• Anachronisms: The movie was set in 1991, but there is a newspaper with a Kia advertisement. Kia's first U.S. cars were sold in 1994.
  
  
• Continuity: Murph gets a fishing hook caught in his hand and when Billy starts to take it out, Murph puts a big wooden spoon in his mouth. Billy jerks the hook out and the reaction shot of Murph shows that the scooping part of the spoon has switched from the right to the left.
  
  
• Continuity: When the Weather Service meteorologist is explaining what will cause the perfect storm, the head of the Count von Count doll from "Sesame Street" (1969) on the computer changes position by itself.
  
  

• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: While Murph waits for his son outside the bar he takes four drags from a cigarette; while not all viewers saw it, he does in fact exhale at least once.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Although Tyne, Shatford and Sully were the only fisherman from Gloucester who died at sea, the wall lists the names of all men who gave their lives while working as professional fisherman who sailed out of Gloucester, regardless of where they actually lived.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When the Andrea Gail and its sister ship, the Hannah Bowden, enter Gloucester Harbor together at the beginning of the movie, the Leisure Casino Cruises casino boat is visible tied up at a pier in the background. However, Leisure Casino Cruises did not start running out of Gloucester until 1998.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: In a scene where Billy Tyne is talking to Bobby Shatford in the captain's loft of the ship, as the camera pans around, a crew member is visible in one of the instruments.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: While the Andrea Gail is fishing at the Flemish Caps, seagulls are visible. While you might not expect to see them so far from shore, seagulls are often found far at sea in the Atlantic, since they can live on and between ships in the area.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In the middle of the storm, the TV in the Gail's lower room keeps showing a perfect image - because it's playing a video. And while the anchor bracket for the TV isn't visible, it could be behind the TV, much like a removable car stereo.
  
  
• Factual errors: After the Andrea Gail returns to Gloucester with its first catch of swordfish, the dock and plant workers use cubed ice, when in reality shaved ice is used to pack fresh fish.
  
  
• Continuity: The story is set in late October, in Massachusetts, when leaves would already have turned color, yet in shots with the hillsides in view, the trees are all green.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Early in the movie, we see the body of a Gloucester fisherman who died at sea being removed from a rival fishing boat. However, at the end of the film, he is not listed on the wall of lost fishermen for the year 1991. That's because the wall lists only those lost at sea, not those who died at sea from other causes.
  
  
• Continuity: Just before the Andrea Gail is overturned and sunk, she is shown from above approaching a giant wave, with her stablizing "out-riggers" deployed. The next shot she is shown head-on and they are not in view. Finally, she is shown from above again, climbing the wave, and the stablizers are again deployed.
  
  
• Factual errors: When heading East towards the Flemish Caps, the sun is seen rising behind the ship, from the west.
  
  
• Anachronisms: While the men are in the lower chamber watching movies there is a copy of "Blade Runner (1982) The Director's Cut" on the table. The director's cut was released in 1992; this movie is set in 1991.
  
  
• Continuity: During the helicopter crash, on impact the pilot's nightvision equipment flies off his crash helmet. Then on the close up, as the 'copter sinks, the equipment is back on the helmet.
  
  
• Continuity: In the middle of the movie, when Irene runs to The Crow's Nest's door, before she enters, she closes her umbrella; after she gets inside, she closes it again.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When the shark is thrashing around on the deck, the small platform on which it is mounted is visible in the low shot looking head on.
  
  
• Continuity: Throughout the whole movie, Bobby has long hair, except when is is talking with Christina in private about going out again and about his black eye. Then, his hair is short.
  
  
• Anachronisms: In the weather forecaster's office, a mid-1990s model Macintosh computer is visible on a desk in the background.
  
  
• Factual errors: The USCGC Tamaroa, the Coast Guard Cutter depicted in the film, was not one of the 210-foot Reliance-Class cutters shown in the film. She was a Navajo-class fleet tug converted to a Coast Guard Cutter. In spite of this difference, the 210-footer shown in the film is referred to as Tamaroa.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During the later storm sequences in the pilot house of the Andrea Gail (after the windows are broken out), notice that water droplets falling from overhead continue to fall vertically with the pull of gravity, thus revealing that the camera was tilted and the actors were leaning to heighten the appearance of rough seas.
  
  
• Factual errors: The Andrea Gail is displaying an all-around (light shows 360 degrees) green masthead light over an all-around white masthead light. According to COLREGS Rule 26 part C: "A vessel engaged in fishing, other than trawling, shall exhibit: I: two all around lights in a vertical line, the upper being red and the lower white." Trawling vessels display green over white. The Andrea Gail was long-line fishing, which would not be trawling and would require a red over white light, not green over white.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: While inside of the bridge on the USCG Cutter, the officer is referred to as "Captain." The rank he was wearing on his hat is actually that of a Commander in the USN & USCG. However, by courtesy, any commanding officer of a seagoing vessel is called "Captain" while on board.
  
  
• Factual errors: When the Hurricane Hunter plane flies through hurricane Grace, the guy reading the wind speed gauge says "winds over 140 knots, category 5". But Grace was never higher than a CAT 2 (winds 100 mph)
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: After their ship has been bashed by the rogue wave, the crew is forced to replace the windows on the starboard side of the bridge with either plywood, or some other form of sheeting. At the point of this replacement, a crew member is see being picked up by the wind underneath the covering making him airborne and tossing him over board. The wires are very visible while the crew member is airborne.
  
  

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