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Revealing mistake: When Brooks throws the kidnapper against the poster case and then punches him, it's painfully obvious his punch didn't connect. His fist is a good 6-8" away from the kidnapper's face. But they still play a punching sound effect and act like he got punched.

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Continuity mistake: When Max gets punched by the kidnappers when they first break in, watch Annie. Her hands go from down on her knees to up playing with her necklace between cuts.

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Continuity mistake: When the actor playing the FBI agent is handing out the folders, and Max sarcastically asks if the FBI wants them to solve the kidnapping, watch Max. He goes from looking at the actor to looking down at the table between cuts.

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Audio problem: When Brooks and Max trade places during game night and Brooks taunts Max by calling him "Pretzel-boy," watch closely... Brooks' mouth isn't moving, revealing the line was added in post.

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Continuity mistake: While Brooks is telling the embarrassing story about Max trying to give himself fellatio, he says the line "He couldn't unhook himself!" Instantly between cuts, his hand goes from up in the air to down by his waist.

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Continuity mistake: When Kevin and Michelle tease Ryan about "needing the validation of Instagram models, " watch closely. In between shots, Kevin and Michelle are instantly looking in different directions and doing different things. (Ex. Between shots, Kevin goes from facing Ryan to facing down, and Michelle goes from holding her own drink to pouring a different drink for Kevin).

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Continuity mistake: When Ryan and his date sneak into Max and Annie's house, Ryan knocks over some plants, spilling dirt all over the counter in front of it. It briefly cuts to Max, and when it cuts back, Ryan has put the plants back upright but almost all the dirt has vanished from the counter. It's totally impossible for him to have cleaned up all the dirt in the mere second-or-two that passed between shots.

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Continuity mistake: When Max and Annie are talking about whether to invite Gary to game night, after Annie says that Gary has got worse after his divorce, Max turns and looks at her RIGHT before the shot ends. But in the very next shot, suddenly he is facing down and away from her.

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Continuity mistake: When Gary points out that Max and Annie have three bags of Tostitos chips, watch the bag in Max's hands. Before Gary says his line, everything is pushed down relatively far, with only the very top few inches of the chips and some celery visible. After Gary's line, when it cuts back to Max and Annie about two seconds later, suddenly the chips and celery are all sticking much higher out of the bag.

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Trivia: Spoilers: There's a pretty subtle bit of foreshadowing in Gary's house. When he's seated and the group is playing Jenga, if you look behind Gary, there are two old-fashioned guns on the mantle. The way the shots of Gary are framed throughout the scene, both guns are pointed right at him several times. Later in the movie, Gary ends up being shot twice by two different guns - once by a gun loaded with blanks and once by a gun loaded with live ammunition.

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Trivia: Danny Huston plays the mobster Donald Anderton, who hosts an underground fight club. He briefly mentions that his fighter is named "Logan." Danny Huston also played William Stryker in "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," in which he was the commander of Wolverine - aka "Logan." This is either a bizarre coincidence or a subtle reference... either way, it's pretty amusing.

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Trivia: In order to prepare for the film and get to know each other, the principal cast actually held a game night shortly before shooting began.

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Trivia: Major Spoilers: In the beginning of the movie, when Max and Annie are kissing on the subway, there's a scrolling LED display behind them. If you pay attention, the screen reads "Don't trust Gary." This is (pretty blatant) foreshadowing towards the twist where Gary is revealed to have staged the kidnapping of Brooks to create his own "game night."

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Trivia: The trivia announcer at the start of the film is played by co-director John Francis Daley in a cameo.

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Trivia: Minor spoilers: The "Bulgarian" agrees to let everyone but Brooks go towards the end, because Brooks is the only guilty one, and he intends on killing Brooks with a knife while he is restrained. In the TV show "Dexter", the titular character only kills criminals - people who are guilty - and he does it with a knife while they are restrained. Both the Bulgarian and Dexter are played by Michael C. Hall.

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Trivia: There's a scene after the credits showing what Gary's ex-wife Debbie is up to, and is worth sticking around for.

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Trivia: The film has many subtle allusions to popular games and gaming archetypes. For example: -Many elements of the plot (such as the hot-rod car and Gary's dog Bastion) are references to game-pieces from the game Monopoly. -The scene where Annie digs a bullet out of Max's arm and then sews it up is both a reference to the Monopoly thimble-piece and the children's game Operation. -During the chase scene, there are frequent shots where the camera is mounted to the back of the cars in such a way to emulate car-racing video-games. -The music includes several cues done in an 8-bit Nintendo video-game style. -Establishing shots are filmed using a photographic technique called "tilt-shift", which makes live action locations look like miniatures, and thus, like board-game pieces. Etc. There are dozens of these types of references throughout the film.

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Trivia: In the scene where Max and Annie talk about their potential future child, there's a throwaway line about child-actors not amounting to much later in life - a bit of an inside joke, as Max is played by Jason Bateman, the rare child-actor whose career actually improved after he became an adult.

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