Continuity mistake: When Charlie looks across the street and notices Viola and Ruby sitting for lunch and that Dr. Chamberlain is in fact a waiter, in the first shot Chamberlain hands Viola and Ruby a menu each. In the next shot he's holding them again. (01:02:35)
Continuity mistake: During the scene where Viola and Charlie are talking about the wedding plans at lunch, Viola has her glasses off, in her hand. When Charlie says "being that I'm more spiritual that religious," the glasses jump back onto Viola's face between shots. She then removes them, and leaves them off, however after she pulls out one of Charlie's hairs, they reappear on her nose again. (00:43:25)
Continuity mistake: When Jennifer Lopez and her mother-in-law are talking in the kitchen, at one point the mother-in-law puts on her glasses to read the book and in the next shot we see a slight side view of the mother without glasses. The next shot shows her wearing the glasses.
Continuity mistake: When Charlie gives Viola the plate of tripe, the amount and position of the strips of tripe on the plate and the vegetables around it differ between consecutive shots. (01:05:45)
Continuity mistake: When Viola, Kevin and Charlie are having lunch, the woman get emotional and Charlie asks Kevin to leave the table so she and Viola can have a moment. Viola reaches for a green cloth napkin to dab at her fake tears. Once Kevin leaves the table, Viola whips around to speak to Charlie and she has a paper napkin.
Continuity mistake: Charlie goes to pick up 2 dobermans to walk, then she is seen walking along the beach with 5 or 6 dogs. The dobermans are not with her. The next scene, she is sitting on the same beach, and the dobermans are with her.
Continuity mistake: When we see Remy, Morgan and Charlie in Viola's room, going through her drawers and cupboards, Charlie is looking through the third drawer down of a big cabinet. Yet in a closeup of her turning to look over at Remy, she is suddenly in the fourth drawer down. (01:01:10)
Continuity mistake: In the opening shots of Charlie sitting at her desk by the window, sketching a woman in her paper-pad, the pens, pencils and paintbrushes in the pots and jars on the desk in front of her change position and some paintbrushes vanish out of one of the pots too. (00:01:30)
Continuity mistake: When Kevin approaches Charlie on the beach he is carrying two cups of coffee. He takes a drink and then when he chokes, after Charlie makes a comment about thinking he is gay, the second cup of coffee is gone from his hand and is then back again in following shots as they continue to walk along the beach. (00:11:50)
Continuity mistake: When Viola is spooning a piece of steak-and-kidney pie out of the oven dish for Charlie, she holds the side of the dish with a cloth in her hand. In the next shot the cloth is down on the counter. (00:54:15)
Continuity mistake: There are significant differences between the tape that Viola's therapist plays back, of the scene where Viola attacked the pop singer, and that of which actually happened on set. When Viola leapt out of her chair on set, she held her glasses in her hand, but on the tape her hand is empty, for example. (00:19:10)
Continuity mistake: When Kevin has proposed to Charlie and she says "It is the perfect moment", Kevin place his hand on Charlie's head. When it cuts it's on her shoulder. (00:28:30)
Continuity mistake: Whilst Viola is preparing the nut-gravy in order to make Charlie get an allergic reaction, and in the following shots as Viola and Ruby fight, the pestle on the worktop repeatedly changes position and between shots it jumps in and out of the mortar, without no-one touching it. (01:16:40)
Continuity mistake: After Charlie had scrunched her sketch of a woman into a paper ball, she threw it into the air and Remy caught it, still as a tightly scrunched ball. In the next shot the paper is now spread out, unfolded. (00:01:50)
Continuity mistake: When Viola's therapist pauses the tape of Viola attacking the pop singer, the paused picture on the television screen is different. Between shots it becomes more zoomed in. (00:19:35)
Continuity mistake: At the end of the movie, just prior to the wedding, Kevin is shown clean-shaven. After the ceremony he is shown with very clear whiskers.
Continuity mistake: At the very first reception where Charlie helps her friend out catering, Charlie is carrying around a small platter of cheese balls to serve. The number of cheese balls changes in between shots and so does the color of the platter - from black to a lighter silver color.
Continuity mistake: In the start engagement scene (when seated), there is no visible cake on the table. A few moments later the cake appears out of nowhere. (00:26:00 - 00:28:00)
Continuity mistake: When Charlie serves Viola the tripe dinner she is at the stove stirring something in a pot. When Viola passes out face down onto the tripe, Charlie covers the pan she is stirring, says goodnight to passed out Viola, shuts off the kitchen lights and goes to bed. The next morning when Ruby walks into the kitchen and sees Viola passed out in the tripe, the pot on the stove is gone.
Continuity mistake: In the scene where Viola is lying on the couch and Ruby is handing her a Martini, Viola lifts her head with her hand to take a drink, in the very next shot her head is lifted but her hand is away from her head.
Answer: He was actually a waiter that Viola paid/bribed to pretend to be a doctor.
Torie White