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FLUBS

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Evelyn or Ruth?
 In the beginning of the movie when Ed and Evelyn are lost in Whistle Stop, Ed mistakenly refers to Evelyn as "Ruth" when they are in the car. This flub even shows up in the closed captioning.
sarahtemp@hotmail.com
Idgie Short/Long Stockings
 As Lil' Idgie comes down the stairs in an early flashback, she's wearing ankle socks. When her socks come floating down from the treehouse (after she throws her tantrum), they're long like kneesocks. She's wearing the long socks in the next scene at the church. They're clearly too long to have been scrunched down for ankle socks in the earlier scene.
Collected by NEVERSam@aol.com
Two Many Stories
 At Eva's River Club, Ruth goest to fetch teen Idgie and in the process climbs stairs to an upper landing. She enters the club, goes down a flight of stairs and confronts Idgie. She grabs the money; goes out the door and is back on the first landing. Somehow she magically transported herself back upstairs.

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Pot Vs. Stake
 In the same scene as the above, Ruth grabs the money that Idgie has put down while playing poker in an attempt to get Idgie to follow her out of the Club. However, Ruth grabs the pot, not Idgie's stake. She's effectively stolen Grady's money

Collected by NEVERSam@aol.com
Canned Corn
 During the scene when Idgie and Ruth ride in the train past the people in the shanty town they throw out CANS of food... yet someone catches an ear of corn.

Baileyaka@aol.com
Towanda!! Reeboks?
 As Ruth jumps off the train after the "Never say never to me!" line she is seen wearing sneakers.

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Nothing Up His Sleeve
 In the scene where Idgie is confronting Frank Bennett we see Big George standing with his arms at his side. The next shot is a close up of his hands with a knife. Then there is a wide shot of Big George with his hands at his side again. We never see how his hands get from the side of his body, to the front, and to the back again.

CindyV@aol.com
Big George Mistake
 When Idgie, Julian, and Big George go to take Ruth away from her abusive husband, they put Ruth in the front (next to Idgie), Julian in the back, and Ruth's baggage in the rumble seat of the car. Big George is nowhere to be seen as the car pulls away but publicity photos of the scene clearly show him in or on the car.

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Poof, the Miraculous Appearing Smokey (with dinner)
 After Ruth and Idgie open the cafe there is a scene which follows Idgie and Grady having a conversation about keeping the "black folk in the back." When the scene begins Idgie and Grady go out the door on the far side of the kitchen into the dining room. Two men, neither of whom are Smokey Lonesome are sitting at the counter. The camera and Grady follow Idgie all the way around the room while she serves dishes of cornbread. Ruth is down by the cash register. The last shot before Idgie re-enters the kitchen shows that the far side of the counter is now empty. In the kitchen, Idgie talks briefly to both Big George and Sipsey, then goes out the far door again. Smokey and a plate of food have miraculously appeared. How did they get there?

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One Track Town
 When Frank Bennett comes to town to steal back his baby (just before Frank puts the baby in the car) we see a passenger train standing at the station. Next we hear a train going by at full tilt. Since there is only a single track through Whistle Stop this has to be a foley error (or sound design creative license.)

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Mary's Moving Mole
 During the funeral for Stump's arm Ruth and Sipsy are seen standing together with Idgie a bit to their left (our right). Idgie's mole is now in its proper place on the left side of her face. After some words shared by Ruth and Sipsy, Idgie gives them a sidelong glance. However, in this close-up her mole is now on the right side of her face. (In other words, the film was probably purposefully switched backwards to achieve the glance in the proper direction.)

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The Misspoken Prosecutor
 When Idgie is on trial for Frank's murder, the prosecutor misspeaks when he said Idgie threatened to kill Frank in front of the hired man in June, 1932 (which was when she visited Ruth and brought her the pie). Although Idgie did make the threat then, the hired man is nowhere to be seen. He IS seen at the back door when Idgie repeats the threat when they come to collect Ruth in September.

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Elongated Fury
 After taking hormones and gaining some independence Evelyn Couch decides to break down a wall in her house. At the beginning of the scene Evelyn is swinging an 8# long-handled sledge hammer. Although there is no break in demolition noise, she finishes the scene with a 3# short-handled drilling hammer.

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Sign of the Times
 When Evelyn parks at the cafe while looking for Ninny at the end of the movie the sign on the eave of the building is not the "Cafe" sign seen when she and Ed first visit Whistle Stop. (It says something like "R & Sons".)

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Ninny or Idgie?
 The camera set-up for the shot from Ninny's house out to the street (with Pritchard's store in the background) is exactly the same as the one used for the funeral of Stump's arm. It seems unlikely that the arm would be buried in anyone's front yard. (This shot is probably left over from one of the original script drafts in which Ninny was meant to be the older Idgie, in which case it would have been Idgie and Ruth's house that the arm was buried in front of.)
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Ninny's Disappearing Suitcase
 When Evelyn arrives to take Ninny home, Ninny is seen sitting on her suitcase. As they start to leave, neither one of them has it in their hands and it is no longer in the road. (Here we can come to the conclusion that they have been walking throughout Ninny's story because by the end of it they ARE at the church/graveyard and no longer near the Cafe. They could be walking back to get the suitcase and car.)

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Ruth's Plunging Neckline
 In the scene where Ruth dies, if you watch the sheets by her neck they change from the first shot of her to the next. At the end of the scene they are in the original crumpled manner. Her right arm even appears during one shot.

coolmom@mctcnet.net
Ghost Stones
 After Ninny tells Evelyn about the secret in the sauce they are seen walking and talking with only the church behind them. When Ninny points out the honey on Ruth's grave the camera cuts to a reverse shot and we see them standing amid lots of other gravestones that weren't there before.
Erin
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