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Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler (2008)

Goofs

The Wrestler

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Continuity

The promoter mentions that Ram's match with Tommy Rotten will be for "the strap", which refers to a promotion's title belt. However, following Ram's victory over Rotten, he is not seen holding a title belt or announced as the new champion.
When Cassidy met Randy to shop for his daughter, she had no make-up on and wore a beanie that fully covered her hair. Immediately after shopping, they went to a bar for drinking beer and now Cassidy had quite a bit make-up on and her hair looked as if it has been done.
Randy is shown a couple times getting his roots bleached. Once at the salon and another time when he tries to do it himself at home. Both times after his hair is bleached, his hair looks exactly the same, with dark roots.
When Randy wakes up in the hospital he is not on a ventilator machine and is breathing on his own (he is wearing a nasal cannula with oxygen); Yet as the camera pans out in the next scene it can clearly be seen that he has been intubated and is attached to a ventilator machine that is breathing for him.
Randy is shown on various occasions with tanned buttocks, even though when he tanned at a salon, he was shown keeping on his underwear.

Factual errors

Pam is a topless dancer at a bar in NJ that serves alcohol. However, in NJ, if a bar serves alcohol, the dancers must be clothed in at least a G-String and pasties and it's called a "Go-Go Bar". If a bar does not serve alcohol, the dancers can be nude.
Poster for the match between The Ram and the Ayatollah reads Saturday, April 6, 1989. April 6, 1989, was in fact a Thursday.
When Randy is in the pharmacy he is paged with the message "Robin Ramsinski, your prescription is ready in the pharmacy". Stating that Randy had a prescription (or any other specific material items) waiting for him is a violation of HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act). The pharmacy is allowed to say his name and call for him to come to their front desk, but that's it.
Ram and the other wrestlers are seen discussing and planning their matches beforehand. However, they are not shown talking to each other in the ring. Wrestlers secretly talk to each other throughout the match, announcing moves so the other wrestler knows what to do. This is done in case the match needs to be shortened due to fan indifference, lengthened due to fan excitement, preventing injury to the wrestlers, and to prevent wrestlers from having to memorize a match than can go from ten minutes to over an hour.

Incorrectly regarded as goofs

When the neighbor boy is telling Randy about Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007), he says that it is set in Iraq. While Iraq is not specified as a location in the game, one of the four Call Of Duty 4 locations IS an unnamed country in the Middle East (the other three locales are Azerbaijan, Russia, and Prypiat, Ukraine) and given world events at the time the movie was made, the kid's assumption is plausible.
Upon being discharged from the hospital, Randy receives a note from the promoter. In the note, the word "your" is used incorrectly in the sentence "Your a warrior". The correct usage would have been the contraction for "you are" which is "you're". However, this is a very common grammatical error and could simply show that the promoter isn't particularly well-educated.

Revealing mistakes

In one scene at the deli, Randy pages his supervisor over the store's intercom. The problem is, the button he hits to do it is actually the button to put an incoming call on hold.

Plot holes

Despite the fact that Randy's heart attack would have cost him tens of thousands of dollars in medical bills the cost is never actually discussed in the movie.

Boom mic visible

Shadow of mic on wall in Stephanie's living room.

Character error

Randy is seen jumping up from his bed using both arms, after receiving a coronary artery bypass. If he really had his sternum bone cut he couldn't, or shouldn't lift anything with his arms over 5lbs for as long as it takes for his sternum bone to heal properly.
When Robinson is playing the 'Wrestling Jam' video game with a neighbor boy, the boy mistakenly refers to the British SAS special forces in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007) as "British SNS".
In the beginning, when Randy signs two autographs, one fan clearly looks at the camera while walking away.

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