Continuity mistake: Toward the beginning when Philip Seymour Hoffman gets on the elevator with Lara Flynn Boyle, his tie is twisted all around but when he gets off, the tie has been fixed. He couldn't have fixed it because he was carrying two bags of groceries.
Continuity mistake: When Garrett is jumping on the bobbing things, we look down on him from above. He has one more thing to jump on before he reaches the other side. Then we see him from a different perspective and he has to jump 5 more.
Continuity mistake: During the shooting at Eddy's place, when Rory goes in, there is a man next to the wall. His head is almost on his shoulder, but when Eddy and his friend arrive the man's head is up, then in the next shot it is again down on his shoulders.
Continuity mistake: When Jennifer Lopez sits on a bed in the hospital, she is talking to someone on the other side of the room. When the camera points towards Jennifer the sheets of her bed are a little bit messy; when the camera returns to Jennifer in the next shot her bed is made up.
Continuity mistake: Early in the film before he learns of Ned's death, Jackie says that there are 52 people living in the village, but once he learns of Ned's death, he still says that the winnings will be split into shares of 52.
Continuity mistake: In the scene when George and Nina almost sleep together the phone rings and George answers it, he gets out of bed and one of his top buttons is done up; the next scene none of the buttons are done up.
Continuity mistake: There is a scene where Jack Stanton is campaigning in Manchester, New Hampshire. He is shown talking with a counter clerk in a "Krispy Kremes" donut shop. There is no Krispy Kreme shop in Manchester, or even in New Hampshire. This is a southern chain, even though its donuts are now distributed throughout the U.S.
Continuity mistake: When Max goes to talk to Miss Cross after the initial opening of the Aquarium, she is sitting in a playhouse with several little kids around her. Max approaches and ducks under the low roof so he could sit down and talk, but somehow all the kids around Miss Cross have disappeared.
Continuity mistake: When Andie MacDowell is taking a taxi to the airport, you can clearly see her lips say "Kennedy" while the voice comes out as "LaGuardia" as she's telling the driver where she wants to go.
Continuity mistake: On the river, her lover has a cigarette, then there's a cut to Hela's mother, and when we see her lover again, the cigarette is gone.
Continuity mistake: In the scene where Grace arrives home and places her handbag on the counter in an anteroom the bag disappears in the next shot.
Continuity mistake: Verena's cigarettes change place when she exchanges them from Tomas.
Continuity mistake: When Josh is hurriedly filling out his mid-term exam, he fills in an answer for 3, then in a long shot we see him scribbling in at least 2-3 more answers, but in the next close up, he is just filling in 4. (00:25:40)
Continuity mistake: When Dennis is in the bathroom with Bill, snorting drugs, his hands change position between shots. In one shot, he'll have the spoon in the vial and the next shot it's out. Then when he takes the last snort, the vial switches hands and he doesn't hold the spoon.
Continuity mistake: Billy sits in the bathtub wearing nothing but his underpants. Later, when he is in the bath with his girlfriend, he's wearing a white undershirt he never had. (00:45:00)
Continuity mistake: When Max and Freak go into the coffee shop, Max says hello to Mr. Hampton and puts three Baby Ruth chocolate bars down on the counter in closeup. Then it changes to a longer shot and Max puts the chocolate bars down again.
Continuity mistake: When Max is moving into Sam's house, Sam's cousin Andrea is standing on the stairs. There are about 15 different shots of Andrea standing there, and her backpack constantly shifts from being on one shoulder to both, back and forth.
Continuity mistake: When Goldblum parks the car when having a flat tire, it's further away from the white line on the road than when he's changing the tire.
Continuity mistake: When Steve discusses Brad Conway's new book with Van Allsburg, the pen on the folder in front of Van and the pen in the holder in front of Dave change positions several times during the scene. (00:22:50)
Continuity mistake: In the movie, Jerry Springer's character is named "Jerry Farrelly." However when he signs the pregnant woman's stomach, he signs his name as Jerry Springer.