How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Andie and Ben are riding the motorcycle and she is wearing a white tank top, you can see the outline of her bra. When they go back to his parents' house and Ben takes off Andie's tank top in the bathroom, she doesn't have a bra on.

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Andie is trying to get Ben to look at the photo album and Andie starts to cry, Ben covers his mouth with his fist. In Andie's close up, you can see that Ben has his hand beside his beer bottle. When it shows a close up of Ben again, his fist is still on his mouth.

Continuity mistake: During the Knicks game, there is a shot of the scoreboard with about one minute left. The main score says that the Knicks have 93 points. However, if one adds up the player-point totals on the left (42, 9, 21, 14, 8), the Knicks supposedly have 94 points.

Continuity mistake: When Ben and Andie are visiting Ben's parents, Ben takes the baby to change his diaper. When he comes back, the baby has a blanket wrapped around him, but when Ben passes the baby to his father, the blanket is not there any more.

Continuity mistake: Towards the end of the movie when Michelle and Andie are watching the Final Game at Michelle's apartment, the doorbell rings. Michelle assumes it is the Chinese food they have ordered. As she walks to the door she picks up her wallet. When she answers the door and realizes it is not Chinese food but Mike, she slams the door and puts her wallet back down on the table. Before she re-opens the door to talk to Mike she has her wallet back in her hand and puts it back on the table, again.

Continuity mistake: When the truck hits the pot hole and splashes Ben and Andie with water, Ben's shirt changes from being semi wet to almost totally wet when the camera angle changes.

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Continuity mistake: When Andie and Ben leave the first game of the NBA finals and Andie is climbing into the cab, she is holding the cup of Diet Coke and hands it to Ben. In the next shot Ben is holding the cup. Then in the next shot Andie is holding the cup yet again and in the other hand and hands it to Ben yet again.

Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the movie when Ben and Andie have met for the first time and they are outside of the restaurant, Ben gives her the 'goofy' helmet he threads the strap through the clip only once, in the next shot it is threaded perfectly in the clip to fasten the helmet.

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Continuity mistake: In the scene where Ben makes the lamb with cherry glaze for Andie, he is about to put carrots on Andie's plate when she says she is a vegetarian; you can see him drop the carrots back on his serving dish. When Andie makes him take the plate away before she gags, there are carrots on her plate.

Continuity mistake: Ben stops his motorcycle in the traffic jam waiting for the light to change. The camera angle changes and he's seen taking off but it's not in the same place he stopped to wait for the light.

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Continuity mistake: On the night Ben and Andy meet they go and eat lobster, first the Andy's hair is behind her shoulder then it is in front, etc.

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Ben is on stage and getting the two guys to stop Andie for her to also come sing with him, Ben has the microphone he is using plus another in his hand. The second microphone goes away and comes back several times before he finally picks one up on the piano to give to her.

Continuity mistake: When Michelle puts the wallet down the first time, she puts it on the book. When she puts it down the second time, she puts it directly on the table. In the next shot that shows the wallet it is back on the book.

Continuity mistake: When Kate Hudson is eating the hamburger, she takes one big bite. And in the few shots after that it can be seen that one perfect bite has been taken out of the burger. In the last shot you see of the burger from behind Kate Hudson nearly 1/4 of the burger has been eaten.

Continuity mistake: When Ben's mother goes to hug Andie, she puts her right hand on the back on Andie's head and when the camera angle changes to a side view the mother's hand is now on her shoulder.

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Continuity mistake: In the scene where Ben is teaching Andie to ride his motorcycle several people people can be seen on the boardwalk with them, which disappear in the aerial angle.

Continuity mistake: When Ben is talking to Tony and Thayer about him getting the account, he punches fists with each guy and when the camera angle changes to behind him, you see him punching fists with the second guy again.

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Continuity mistake: When Ben asks Andie to go to the party, he tells her that he wants her to go as his girlfriend and she puts her right hand on his shoulder. The camera angle changes to a shot from behind and her hand is now on his chest.

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Continuity mistake: In the scene where Ben just ran down the fire escape to Andie, she walks away waving. In the shot of her front side she's waving with her right hand, and then in the next shot (a rear shot) she has her left hand up. (01:08:38)

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Andie: Does Krull the Warrior King want to come out and play?
Ben: No.
Andie: Krull.
Ben: You know what, due to intense humiliation, the king has momentarily abdicated his throne, okay?
Andie: Oh. Uh-oh.
Ben: Yeah.
Andie: Well, in that case, I better get going. Take care of our love fern, honey.

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Trivia: Andie's two best friend's names in the movie - Jeannie and Michelle - are a nod to Jeannie Long and Michele Alexander, the two women who created the short novelty book the movie was based on.

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Question: How did Kate Hudson pay the cab fare after she left Mathew McConaughey's apartment, after she left her pocketbook in the apartment?

Answer: She could have been carrying money and/or a credit card in a pocket of her clothing.

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