Other mistake: In the case file folder that Crawford sent back to Willy, you can spot the hour of the arrest being marked down as 21:15. Considering the murder happened around 5 PM, according to the depositions, that's just wrong. (00:37:20)
Other mistake: Willy just rebuffed Nunally's offer of fabricating evidence. He listens to Nikki Gardner's phone call; he doesn't pick it up, it gets to his answering machine. After that, the answering machine tells him he has one unheard message (the 4:10 one from the hotel concierge), but it should be two: the hotel's and Nikki's. (01:13:20)
Other mistake: One of the shots during the montage of Beachum driving to the hospital to try and stop the euthanasia is flipped; the writing on the desk is mirrored. It comes after Willy leaves Judge Gardner's yard and a close-up on Embeth Davidtz's face. (01:32:10)
Other mistake: When Beachum grabs the Nunally case file next to multitasking Flores, the date on the folder is November 5th, which is patently absurd considering the murder took place on the 10th, and the suicide the Monday after Thanksgiving. (01:37:35)
Other mistake: In the end credits, the opera song is listed as "Ombra fedel anch'io." It's "fedele" with a closing E. While the apocope (elision) of the last vowel is perfectly acceptable in Italian, especially archaic literary Italian, the song (from "Idaspe," by famous castrato Farinelli's brother) is always listed with the final "e." (01:52:15)
Other mistake: The Italian version redubs the antagonist as "Thomas" and "Tom," localizing the movie title to "The Thomas Crawford Affair," in an obvious attempt to capitalize on the fame of the cinema classic "The Thomas Crown Affair." However, end credits (and obviously the police report) still list Hopkins' character as Ted Crawford.
Answer: Crowford (Hopkins) shot his wife with the gun that belonged to Nunally (Burke), but switched it with his at a moment of Nunally's distraction. The gun that the police mistakenly collected was not the murder weapon. This was a key plot point. Crowford goes on to gloat about it near the end of the film, saying the one piece of evidence Nunally needed was on his hip the whole time.
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