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Other mistake: Misty's car at the beginning of the movie crashes into the house presumably breaking through the perimeter wall, certainly does smash through interior walls and furniture, but in the living room it still has every single light, including the side ones, completely whole and undamaged.

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Continuity mistake: Holland's daughter is taking interest in Jackson's job and asks him if he can beat up her friend. Her dad quickly puts a piece of pie in front of her. His cigarette is in hand, but in the close-up of Holly he's got it in his lips. (00:26:05)

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Continuity mistake: Holland is telling Jackson about the case and how his client thinks she saw her niece drive away. He punctuates this statement gesticulating with his right hand (the fit one, holding the cigarette) but in the reverse shot he's using the hand in the cast, the left. (00:24:40)

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Continuity mistake: Holland is begging Jackson off after he punched him and asked him if he's a PI; his right hand is raised in close-up, floor-level in the wider angle. (00:13:05)

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Continuity mistake: The writing on the cow post-it is different from the first time we see it to the time when Healy checks it out later (the most immediately noticeable difference being the length of the prime in the 'six feet' notation). (00:07:50 - 00:12:25)

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Continuity mistake: When Jackson checks out the note in front of March's house, he holds it in the 'front' of the cow, but in close-up his thumb is between the cow's legs. (00:12:25)

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Continuity mistake: Jackson heads out of his apartment forgetting the dusters on top of the TV. In the first shot the TV guide is open, it is closed on the close-up. (00:11:55)

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Revealing mistake: Healy tears off the October 26 sheet from the calendar, and before the camera cuts away, it shows the October 25 sheet underneath it. That's not how calendars work. (00:11:25)

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Factual error: We're in the year 1977, and it's established later by multiple elements that it's October 26th. However, at the gas station March reads a headline about a killer bee in Brazil (which is a plot point, even!), which refers to real life events from November of the same year. (00:06:45)

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Character mistake: Twice over in the movie (when Healy wakes up and when March at the end of the movie drives to his place) billboards for The Comedy Store appear. The program of the evening features comedians such as Tim Allen, Richard Lewis, Robert Klein and "Elaine Boosler." So they misspelled Elayne Boosler's name. (00:10:50 - 01:48:35)

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Factual error: Showing the exterior of Healy's apartment, it is established that he lives above the famous stand-up club "The Comedy Store." Showing the entrance though, they show also the board above it which is composed of signatures of famous comedians - most of them who never appeared on it in 1977, when the movie is set. For instance you can see Roseanne (Barr) 's signature on the bottom right corner, and also Pauly Shore's. (00:10:55)

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Continuity mistake: When March nearly kills himself punching the door, the hole in the glass changes between shots; there's next to no glass left at the top of the panel he punched, then it grows back a couple inches. (00:09:50)

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Continuity mistake: Jackson Healy takes the envelope from Amelia and begins counting the money. She eases the grip on the wheel in the side view, but she's again clenching it tight in the frontal view. Moreover, when he tells her she's short, she has just one hand on it; cut away a second, and she's again with the same grip as the previous part of the scene, showing two separate takes edited together. (00:07:50)

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Factual error: The movie is set in October 1977, but Holland March is waiting in a line to fill his gas tank on an "even" day. The 'even/odd' rationing was instituted in California during the second oil crisis of 1979, in May. (00:06:30)

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Continuity mistake: The 'big boy' goes to check the car that crashed through his house. He leans against a plain spot on the car's door, but in the next shot he does it gripping the bottom tray. (00:02:25)

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