Boiler Room

Continuity mistake: Near the beginning, Giovanni Ribisi has a voiceover in which he refers to the #6 (subway) going to Fulton Street. The #6 train does not stop at Fulton, the 4 and 5 do.

Continuity mistake: When Seth's father calls him asking if he can help out with Seth's stock deal, listen carefully to everything said. When the FBI agent plays it back, right before Seth's father leaves the FBI office, saying "You can't charge me with anything," the agent plays back the recording of him and Seth talking, and the placement of what they are saying is totally different from the actual conversation.

Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the movie when it shows Seth on the bus there is no one sitting in the seat in front of him. The scene cuts to inside the bus then pans forward to show two occupants in the seat in front of him snorting cocaine out of a briefcase.

Joel Amos Gordon

Continuity mistake: In the final scene, Seth's Volvo is parked correctly in the parking spot next to a red Ferrari and a grey car. But when the wide shot reveals the FBI vehicles moving in, the Volvo is parked sideways and the grey car is gone. There is no way he would have time to park it like this, and make the other cars disappear.

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Seth goes into the office at night to get his briefcase/bag after he gets dropped off at his car, he sees the compliance officer shredding documents. The compliance officer's sleeves go from being buttoned at the wrist to being rolled up between shots. There is not enough time between the scenes for him to do this.

Other mistake: In the scenes after Giovanni Ribisi is arrested, his looks are constantly changing. In scenes where he is talking to Vin Disel his face is very fat. When he walks by Abby's desk he is thin again. If you get Boiler Room on DVD you'll see an original ending where Ribisi is thin all the way through the end of the movie; Because Giovanni was preparing for a film that required him to gain 30 something pounds, the scenes that needed to be reshot for a different ending are very defined.

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Richie: Get the fuck out of here before I put you in a mayonnaise jar.

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Question: Anyone in a sales floor realizes that if you have a lot of people in one room talking at the same time, there's background noise. Yet only one or two people have active noise canceling headsets. Everyone else uses handsets. Either everyone should or no one should. Why the difference?

Answer: I spent some time as a telemarketer (my apologies to anyone I may have called) and only certain people got headsets. They were used as a reward for top closers. Everyone else had to use handsets in a room similar to the one in the movie.

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