Deliberate mistake: Gray's rental car just happens to be the one car out of the hundreds in the parking garage that the bad guy chasing Gray and Darby crashes into, setting off the bomb he had placed.
The Pelican Brief (1993)
1 deliberate mistake
Directed by: Alan J. Pakula
Starring: Denzel Washington, Julia Roberts, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, Sam Shepard, John Heard
Continuity mistake: In the hotel scene where Darby calls Gavin to give him the instructions to meet her the next day, he eats one of the chocolates on his pillow and throws it down. They show a close up of the chocolates. After Khamel murders Gavin, he walks to the bed, pulls the recording device and eats one of the chocolates. They are now in a different spot on the bed. (00:59:55 - 01:00:25)
Professor Thomas Callahan: Darby Shaw, you take my breath away.
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