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Continuity mistake: Lucia's hair goes from disheveled to styled during the time it takes for Pia to say (over the phone), "You've gone almost a decade without a single, serious relationship, Lucia." Moreover, Lucia is already applying mascara. It takes longer than 5 seconds to style/fix one's long hair. (00:01:23)

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Continuity mistake: The right side of Miller's [Ryan Phillippe] shirt collar is underneath his suit jacket, but in side views, the shirt collar extends above the jacket (i.e, is visible up his neck). (00:08:45 - 00:09:10)

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Continuity mistake: Scene inside the shrink's office at the beginning of the movie; Bert's daughter reacts as he mentions "the c word." Her mum is at the rightmost seat, with both hands on the pillow. In the next shot, her hands are in completely different positions. A similar mistake occurs later when the mother asks her daughters to leave. (00:04:40)

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Continuity mistake: The cucumber half is facing in the opposite direction after the camera shift. The flesh is toward the right of the screen, then to the left. Also, the knife Margaret set near the corner of the table next to the cucumber half disappears; it should be below her right arm when she is reaching for her drink. (00:15:17)

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Continuity mistake: After Brooke saw the note that classes were cancelled, she turned around, and her back was at an angle to the school door. A front view of her showed her back parallel to the door. When Briggs was walking away, Brooke's body was at an angle to the door again (and not pivoted to face the direction Briggs was going). (00:10:27)

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Continuity mistake: The horse's head faces the left side of the screen with its rear-end angled towards the upper right side. The horse's face bumps Dave's head a few times, and Dave even pushes the horse's face out of the way. Suddenly, the horse walks along the fence from the left side of the screen towards the right side (but cannot change position that quickly). (00:27:30 - 00:28:06)

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Continuity mistake: Tree foliage is inconsistent, changing several times within the first minute (Fall-Winter-Summer-Fall-Summer). Tree foliage even varies with which side of the road is being shown, such as Winter leafless trees between houses on Liam's side but Summer green leaves on Breanna's passenger side of the car (followed by Winter leafless trees when they get to the bank's parking lot). The inconsistencies persist to the end, with Fall-Winter foliage in the aerial view but Summer at street level. (00:00:20 - 00:09:27)

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Continuity mistake: In the ice cream and hot cocoa parlor, the jar of candy canes/sticks is closer to the gingerbread house than the cash register. In the rearview, the three objects are close together, with little space between them. Later, the reverse occurs: the three objects are close together in the rearview, but the jar is back to being closer to the gingerbread house in the front view. (00:13:30 - 00:15:45)

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Continuity mistake: In the hospital, Sebastian's head is centered on the pillow. When the camera shifts, the top of the pillow to the right of his face is angled too low towards the upper-right of the screen. (00:02:26 - 00:02:51)

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Continuity mistake: Some of the advances Mark made walking toward the edge of the cliff were negated with camera shifts, placing him at earlier spots. (01:28:17)

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Continuity mistake: Only Rebecca's left breast is exposed when she is being bitten on the neck. However, both breasts (as well as her right shoulder) are exposed after her attacker is beheaded. She opens her eyes and continues lying on the floor. (00:06:43 - 00:07:05)

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Continuity mistake: During the short conversation with Jay, the hands on Maggie's wristwatch change from being on the opposite side of the crown (push-button) to pointing at the crown. (00:04:44)

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Continuity mistake: "Gramms" (Maggie Westmoreland) lifts her cup of coffee using both hands and takes a sip. By the time she lowers her cup to the table, her glass of water goes from over half-full to less than half-full. Nobody refills the glass, but it is back to over half-full. Thereafter, the level of water in the glass alternates after almost every view of Tracey. (00:02:05)

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Continuity mistake: Aamal hangs her daughter's photo from the rearview mirror, and it usually extends beyond the height of the mirror by an inch or so. However, the close-up shows the entire photo within the mirror. (00:15:54)

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Continuity mistake: They say Eden's former partner died in a diving accident in Barbados. Later in the movie, they are looking at statements from witnesses to the drowning from Bermuda.

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80 for Brady picture

Continuity mistake: The amount of tomato juice in Lou's [Lily Tomlin] glass fluctuates with camera angle/distance, increasing two times. More distant views from the table show about one-third full, whereas close-ups show about one-half full. (00:27:10 - 00:28:10)

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Continuity mistake: When Coriolanus and Sejanus are eating lunch at the Academy, Coriolanus' sandwiches switch positions several times, stacking and unstacking, and turning several times.

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Continuity mistake: While Lucky does push-ups on the floor, the positions of the pack of cigarettes and lighter on the coffee table change. In the side view, the cigarette pack goes from partially behind the glass to a couple of inches to the right, and the lighter goes from mostly to the right of the cigarettes to behind the pack. (00:42:08)

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Continuity mistake: When Robert is sitting at the café in the evening, the young man brings him a tea order. Robert prepares and puts out his napkins twice, from 2 different angles. (00:45:33)

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