Eddie And The Cruisers

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Eddie And The Cruisers Goofs/Mistakes

Movie Goof (anachronisms): At the recording studio, when Sal blames Frank for destroying the band ("It was you!"), there's a modern thermostat on the wall over Frank's shoulder.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): When "On The Darkside" is first played (first by Frank, then by the band) you can see strings attached to Wendell's saxophone.
Movie Goof (continuity error): At the hotel concert featuring the imitation "Eddie" band, a male extra is seen both at the bar and standing in front of the stage holding a lighter.
Movie Goof (continuity error): Maggie is seen watching old tape of Eddie and the band sing "On The Dark Side", at Frank's college. Yet when we see them at the college later in the film, no camera or film crews are in sight anywhere in the auditorium.
Movie Goof (factual errors): On campus at the college, Frank runs into an old friend. The friend asks him if he's heard of the band playing at the dance later that night. Later that night, the Cruisers perform a concert in a theater. If it had been a dance, it would have been held in the college's gym.
Movie Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the scene where Frank says he is teaching high school in Vineland, he mispronounces Vineland. He says VINE-LAND, when it should be pronounced VINE-lind, as in Cleveland.
Movie Goof (audio/visual unsynchronized): In the scene where Frank (Tom Berenger) is watching Sal (Matt Laurence) at the night club, Sal's band is playing "Betty Lou". Sal takes his hand off of his bass guitar and even slaps it but we still hear bass lines being played.
Movie Goof (crew or equipment visible): When Frank is lying in bed, you can see the shadow of the camera moving across his chest as it moves closer.
Movie Goof (anachronisms): When Eddie and Joanne are shown driving into the Lincoln Tunnel, it is supposed to be 1964, yet a pictographic "steep grade" warning sign (a picture of a truck headed down a triangular shape) is seen mounted on the entrance to the tunnel. Pictographic warning signs were not in use on United States roads in 1964; rather a sign warning "Steep Grade" in text would have been posted.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Frank arrives at his home (trailer) you see a copy of the "Eddie and the Cruisers Album", about 3/4 of the album is peaking out of the pile. After Doc calls him he reaches for the album, only 25% of the album is peaking out of the pile.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Eddie ends the song, "Wild Summer Nights", we see him take his guitar off and place it to the side. But in the next shot, showing Eddie from the rear, the guitar is back on, as he waves to the crowd.
Movie Goof (factual errors): Early in the movie we see Frank in his car driving to the high school where he teaches, listening to one of the old Cruisers songs being played on New York City radio station WNEW-FM. Later, when he's reunited with Doc, he says he's teaching in Vineland (NJ). With the range of FM radio limited by "line of sight" (and not bouncing like AM signals do), there is no way he could listen to WNEW-FM that far down in south Jersey.
Movie Goof (plot holes): SPOILER: The "Season in Hell" album was a set of reel to reel tapes, in plain cardboard boxes. If they had been in Palace Depression for 20 years, even sheltered from rain as they were, the New Jersey climate would have made the tapes difficult, if not impossible to play back. The moisture would have destroyed the audio on the magnetic tapes.