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Revealing mistake: Out of ideas, Willy rummages through Jennifer Crawford's belongings and finds an old copy of Dr. Seuss' "Oh, the Places You'll Go." It's a teal hardcover book with the front recognizable because of the cover picture. Later on, a sleepy Willy is surprised by the doctor as he reads the book to Jennifer. He closes it, and it has the splint on his right side, no cover picture. You don't get a good view of the other half of the book, but if he was reading it, he was then doing it while holding it upside down. (01:03:55 - 01:04:50)

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Continuity mistake: Crawford taunts Beachum, waking him up by his comatose wife's hospital bed. Beachum slides his left hand under the jacket he had draped over himself, but in the next shot, his hand is raised. (01:27:05)

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Continuity mistake: Beachum and Flores are looking at the security camera footage from Nov 10. Willy enhances the picture (the mouse pointer gets gigantic along with the picture, funnily enough), but when it cuts to a different angle, the image is zoomed out again, only to be zoomed in again a few seconds later when Willy angrily throws his bag across the room. Nobody touched the PowerBook during any of that. (01:13:45)

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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)

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Revealing mistake: Willy is poolside at Crawford's when Detective Flores tells him the negative outcome of the umpteenth search for the gun. Gosling is waiting for the news with his hands crossed behind his neck, his big wristwatch on display, showing that the filming happened around 11am, and it is colour filtered to make it look like it happened later in the day. (01:02:50)

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Continuity mistake: Lobruto asks Beachum, "You want it back?" after telling him the high stakes of staying committed to the case. Gosling nods, hand over his mouth in close-up. In the wider angle of the room, his hand is on his knee. (00:57:45)

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Continuity mistake: When Willy opens the box with the eggshells Crawford sent him to taunt him, the cardboard flaps have been properly spread out for the close-up instead of being partially up like they were before. In the same close-up, he also pulls out a broken bit that loses the straw that was covering it, but in the next shot featuring Ryan Gosling's face, a straw wrapped on top of the broken eggshell falls off it anyway. (00:56:10)

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Continuity mistake: When Willy says "I don't know" to the judge's question about Nunally being present at the interrogation, Ryan Gosling changes position all of a sudden, from tucking his chin between thumb and fingers to having his knuckles against the side of his mouth. (00:49:45)

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Plot hole: According to the deposition of the policeman, the police were on the premises at exactly 5:12 PM. Considering that Lt. Nunally started his shift only at 6 PM (as per Crawford's phone call, even if by any logic it was the kind of fact a meticulous planner like him, with seemingly unlimited access to intelligence, would have to know already), Crawford concocted his master plan that hinged on Nunally being called up for the situation at a time when he was, in fact, not on duty. (00:45:00)

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Continuity mistake: Before the first day of the proper trial, with Ciro's deposition, there's a montage showing Willy Beachum getting ready. However, in that montage, he suits up wearing the red tie that he was wearing in its introductory scene at the beginning of the movie and that he ruined with the coffee spill. The scene was supposed to be edited earlier in the movie, probably. At the trial, Beachum sports a black tie. (00:43:45)

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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)

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Continuity mistake: From the moment Beachum puts down on the table between them the disclosure folder that Crawford mailed him back, it faces different directions without anyone touching it. (00:38:30)

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Continuity mistake: Willy complains about the unmarked folder that Danny, the clerk, brought him. He looks at the folder, holding it with one hand, instantly turning it into both hands at the cut. (00:37:20)

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Continuity mistake: When Willy is on the phone talking furniture and asks the difference between Italian and English, Flores is reaching inside the inner pocket of his jacket as he walks towards the camera. At the cut, his hand is on the notepad, and only then does he proceed again to reach inside the jacket, this time finally pulling out a pen. (00:33:05)

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Continuity mistake: When Willy asks the decorator on the phone what's the difference between Italian and English, his Samsung Blade switches hands, switching back when he holds it against his chest. (00:33:05)

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Continuity mistake: At the party, Nikki Gardner is walking and talking with Willy, asking him about what happened with a fellow associate of the law firm. Willy listens with exaggerated expressions, palm on his mouth; his fingers rest at opposite sides of his nose between shots. Similar blunder a moment later, when she starts saying that Burt never interviews juniors; his hand should be on his left cheek, but in the reverse shot it's not there; he touches it only a second later. (00:29:45)

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Deliberate mistake: When Willy's fellow prosecutor, Norman, dropped the Crawford preliminary hearing on him, they said it started at 15:00. Willy is in a rush and the whole ordeal takes him just a few minutes. Still, when Nunally accosts him in the parking lot, the movie sped things up; it's nighttime. (00:27:00)

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Revealing mistake: In one of the most memorable moments of the movie, Hopkins' character trolls Gosling's, gesturing him to fix his bowtie (and will get his comeuppance at the end). When Gosling does that, the arms of his wristwatch show it's around 1 PM, while the court proceeding is supposedly taking place at 3 PM. (00:25:20)

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Continuity mistake: When the judge asks Willy Beachum if he has an objection to Crawford's request to represent himself, Willy's arms go from straight to bent between shots. (00:25:00)

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Continuity mistake: In the first courtroom scene, Crawford fires his attorney. Throughout the scene (starting with the wide shot, but also in the transition between closer angles), Sir Anthony Hopkins' hands change position instantaneously between shots. (00:24:25)

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