Factual error: Tiffany and Pat first meet at/around Halloween, then later in the movie she convinces Pat to participate in a dance contest with her, and they begin practices. Towards the end of the movie, Tiffany claims that Pat was with her working on their dance routine during the baseball playoff games of the Phillies, erroneously placing the baseball playoffs sometime in November or December.
Continuity mistake: Deniro starts taking off his jacket at the dance competition and it's halfway off his left shoulder. In the next shot his jacket is back on.
Continuity mistake: When Tiffany meets up with the family at his home and they're discussing football, she's drinking a Bud, then after an angle change she is standing with her arms folded.
Continuity mistake: When Veronica takes Pat and Tiffany on a tour of her house, she bends down to light her fireplace and on the left you can see an iPod in the wall-mounted iPod dock. A little after this, she shows them the dock, and it is empty again.
Continuity mistake: In the scene where Tiffany is attempting to put a full length tie on Pat for the dance competition, Pat's collar is up and down inconsistently.
Continuity mistake: At the end of the dance competition, Pat hugs Tiffany and starts walking towards Nikki. After he reaches where she is standing in the close-up shot, the subsequent distant shot which follows shows him still approaching her.
Chosen answer: According to Wikipedia, excelsior is a Latin adjective meaning "higher" or "loftier", used in English as an interjection with a poetic meaning of "ever upward." The characters have a goal and are striving to achieve something lofty.
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