The Reader

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• Movie Goof (incorrectly regarded as a mistake): When Hanna first taught herself to read "The Lady With The Little Dog", she circled out the first word "The" from the title, then followed with all other "the"s in the whole page including the "the"s not starting with a capital "t". However, the word "the" appears twice in the title visible on the first page of the book, so she has a model for both forms.
• Juliette Binoche was considered for the role of Hanna Schmitz.
• Movie Goof (anachronisms): When Michael runs from school to Hannah on his first day back in school, he runs into some school boys in the yard. One of the boys is giving him a rude hand gesture which was not in use during this time. This gesture turns up on German school grounds in the 1980s.
• Movie Goof (anachronisms): Also in the 1988 New York scene, the pedestrian Walk/Don't Walk traffic lights are the current man/hand type. In 1988, they would be the old type that spelled out Walk/Don't Walk.