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Continuity mistake: During the opening credits the protagonist is talking with his parents. Throughout this, the whiskey in the bottle changes level depending on the shot. (00:01:20)

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Continuity mistake: After the seal runs away from Vera, the area where Vera is standing in the ice begins to crack. When Vera's phone starts ringing, her left foot is positioned around a foot away from the crack. Vera never changes her position, but when the shot is on her feet, her left foot has suddenly moved much closer to the crack. (00:22:05)

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Continuity mistake: Shortly after the start of the film, the heroine meets with the Mother Superior of the orphanage that she is staying at, and just behind her is the cockeyed supervisor, M. Luteau. During the scene he disappears abruptly to allow for a pan out of the property, far too fast for him to have merely walked away.

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Continuity mistake: A group of people are in the copying room taking turns taking pictures of their butts on the copier. When one of them sits on the glass part of the copier, the glass part breaks. When he gets up, it's not broken.

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Continuity mistake: The old man in the hotel lobby pulls the flowers out of the megaphone and calls the protagonist. She lowers the headset to talk to him. The left speaker is all the way across the opposite side of the neck in the first shot, less shifted to that side in close-up. (00:04:00)

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Continuity mistake: Penelope Cruz's mole switches sides several times during the film. (00:04:03 - 00:57:55)

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Continuity mistake: The protagonist is on the couch with his girlfriend in Fresno. He mumbles worried about her dad "knowing"; his hands are joined with different placement (left on top, right on top) between shots. (00:13:15)

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Continuity mistake: Conner is back home, but his publicist drags him out and they go to a club, with Conner wearing a ton of makeup. They turn around hearing some loud riff; Sarah Silverman has her glass of wine on the counter in the first shot, held up in the reverse. (01:02:30)

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Continuity mistake: When Florence ends her Valkyrie routine she raises her head; angle changes and it's back to lowered, and she raises it again.

Sacha

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Continuity mistake: James after talking to the pushers outside his house steps in, and behind him we see Bob curled by the window. In the following close-up the cat is turned in a different direction. (01:21:00)

Sammo

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Continuity mistake: When Lady Susan is counseling her daughter Frederica in her bedroom, the shot shows an unlit candle on a dresser behind Lady Susan. The shot changes back and forth between Frederica and Lady Susan. When the shot changes back to Lady Susan, the unlit candle is gone, though there is no one else in the room.

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Continuity mistake: At the toll booth, Afonso does a thumb up sign to the operator, not knowing what he really said to his son about their ride. He is doing the gesture with his right hand, left hand, right hand again depending on the shot. (00:07:00)

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Continuity mistake: In the 3 wheeled vehicle, Bennie is driving and Conner says "Women do not go for that whole constipated Debbie Downer look." A shot shows Bennie's hair blowing wildly in the wind, then cuts to a view from Conner and suddenly Bennie's hair is straight and still, then cuts again and once again his hair is blowing. (00:39:45)

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Continuity mistake: The level of snake wine changes in the glass as the camera cuts back and forth during the conversation in the Chinese restaurant between Jeff and Tim.

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Continuity mistake: Mother and son run towards the store window as the Ford Galaxy is burning in the parking lot. At the end of the shot from behind, a woman with a lilac top and long brown hair comes into frame and leans against the vegetable stand. After the cut, with Jamie and the mom by the window, the same woman walks in again. (00:01:30)

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Continuity mistake: When Chaz leaves the house telling Jesse that she has just 2 weeks to pack, in the close-up when she says "Bye..." her hair is all in front of her shoulders as opposed to the rest of the scene. (00:08:40)

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Continuity mistake: In front of the station, the con man bargains with the taxi driver the fare; during the scene, the same black man with a floral shirt passes at least 3 times. (00:01:30)

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