Continuity mistake: Just before Helen gets hit by a car, it is pouring with rain, and she and James are soaked, although when she is about to cross the road, the rain has stopped and they are both suddenly dry. (01:23:55)
Visible crew/equipment: Early in the movie when Robin Williams drives towards the tunnel where the accident happens, you can clearly see the shadow of the camera crane on the left side.
Factual error: About 20 minutes in when they are at some ball/dance thing, Shakespeare's talking with a musician holding a lute. You can see fret markers on the fretboard of his lute, but these were not used on instruments until the late 1800's, early 1900's, definitely not in Shakespeare's time. (00:27:20)
Continuity mistake: When Marcia Gay Harden is doing the final preparations for the party that night, she and Anthony Hopkins have a dialogue where they talk about favorites and children. Towards the end of the dialogue, she hugs him and the watch on her wrist says something like 10am. A minute later she hugs him again and the watch now says 12:25.
Continuity mistake: When they are playing hockey, and they win with 1-0 you can see the team celebrate. In the background you can see a scoreboard that says 4-1.
Revealing mistake: When Angus is chasing his Mum, Sally, and Dorian in the helicopter you can see through the windsheild of the helicopter that the road is blocked off with orange cones and police cones when earlier there was traffic on the road.
Visible crew/equipment: When Steve rejects Brad Conway's new book and Brad says "what is it exactly?" there is a boom mic visible. (00:09:50)
Continuity mistake: In the love scene between Mario Van Peebles and Rae Dawn Chong, her breast is uncovered, then covered, and then uncovered again.
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: 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: When Sarah comes in with the tea and biscuits for Joe and Shanks, the amount of ceiling that Shanks has painted changes between shots without enough time for him to have done it. (00:17:50)
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: Towards the end of the movie when Dominique Swain and Tara Reid are talking in the yard, Dominique's hair has braids and her front left braid keeps getting tucked behind her ear and out again.
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: 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 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: 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 Mark and Robert are driving to the comic store you can see Robert's seatbelt over his jacket's right lapel, the shot changes a couple of times and each time it's back on Robert his seatbelt is gone. (00:37:45)
Audio problem: When Julia and the girls are sitting with Eva discussing Bilal's disappearance towards the end, you can see Eva's mouth isn't moving in time with what she is saying.
Continuity mistake: In the beginning of the movie where the baby is being born, the father's hand is shown with his hand on the mother's belly, then back at his side, then back on the mother's belly and back near his son again, with it being different in every shot.