Continuity mistake: When Emily says that "Mother Theresa and I are, like, the same person" her fingers are suddenly wrapped around the glass in the second shot. When Sean arrives and Emily chastises Steph for saying "sorry" again, the glass also switches hands. (00:11:45)
Sammo
20th Mar 2020
A Simple Favor (2018)
20th Mar 2020
A Simple Favor (2018)
Continuity mistake: Fixing the first martinis, Emily is pouring from the mixer in one shot, and in the reverse angle she's already with both hands doing the finishing touches to the glasses. (00:11:20)
20th Mar 2020
A Simple Favor (2018)
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Continuity mistake: When Sean is introduced for the first time, there's an obvious continuity issue with Blake Lively's hair over her right shoulder. (00:12:00)
20th Mar 2020
A Simple Favor (2018)
Continuity mistake: While they are talking about the swear jar, Emily removes the right cuff of her outfit in one shot, but has to fiddle with it for a lengthy period again in the next, since it was back on fully fastened. And then in the next shot she is casting aside...the left, and both are gone. (00:08:00)
20th Mar 2020
A Simple Favor (2018)
Continuity mistake: Asking about the painting, Stephanie turns her head towards Emily. She turns back towards the painting when Emily mentions the East Village, but then in the next shot she is still facing Emily. (00:07:20)
20th Mar 2020
A Simple Favor (2018)
Continuity mistake: For the first time at Emily's, Stephanie stops befuddled by the "beaver." When she says "Lifelike", Emily has her blonde hair over both shoulders, but in the next two close-ups there's none on her right shoulder, and then a few locks. It happens again at the end of that part of the scene when she walks away saying "No such luck" about the painting having any value. (00:07:05)
20th Mar 2020
A Simple Favor (2018)
Continuity mistake: Stephanie and Emily are talking in front of the school. Behind Emily, the same person with a red raincoat and pink-red umbrella passes by twice, and when Stephanie says "I think you're joking, but great!" a girl with a red raincoat pops in the view of the door but is nowhere to be found in the next shot. (00:06:10)
20th Mar 2020
A Simple Favor (2018)
Continuity mistake: The first time we see Emily, Stephanie is looking at her open the car door and make her way across the street. Even in slo-mo, it takes a few seconds. But before AND after the sequence, the same dad with a plaid shirt and dark jacket is coming out of the school. (00:04:40)
20th Mar 2020
A Simple Favor (2018)
Continuity mistake: When the teacher asks to the class "Haven't we learned so much about food all over the world?" there's a blonde kid behind her who reaches for a crayon off-screen, then is prominently featured in the cutaway shot where she is drawing already on the paper with it, and then we're back to the same angle as before where she is -still - waiting for that crayon. (00:03:15)
20th Mar 2020
A Simple Favor (2018)
Revealing mistake: The teacher has to stop the overzealous Stephanie from signing up to more than one task. Thing is, even before Anna Kendrick grabs the pen from the string, her name is written on the sheet already. (00:03:35)
15th Mar 2020
A Simple Favor (2018)
Continuity mistake: The bloodstain on Sean's shirt is different between the close-up when Stephanie checks on him and when he stands again. (01:45:50)
15th Mar 2020
A Simple Favor (2018)
Continuity mistake: In the opening shots of the funeral, Stephanie is holding her son's hand in the first, and his shoulder in the second. (00:41:25)
15th Mar 2020
A Simple Favor (2018)
Continuity mistake: Sean hands the "vegetable smoothie" to Stephanie holding it by the middle, which becomes the top in the reverse shot. (00:30:00)
13th Mar 2020
A Simple Favor (2018)
Continuity mistake: When Linda Cardellini says "beatific" to the protagonist, her knife points the sharp edge in the opposite direction of the previous and following shot. (01:11:40)
13th Mar 2020
A Simple Favor (2018)
Continuity mistake: Outside during the funeral reception, Sean and Steph are dealing with Nicky. The camera cuts to the parents of the kid's classmates gawking at the scene, but before and after they can be seen in background through the window minding their own business and chatting oblivious to what happens outside. (00:43:30)
11th Mar 2020
A Simple Favor (2018)
Continuity mistake: Sean goes upstairs after botching Stephanie's name. Emily's glass suddenly reappears in her hand at the cut. (00:13:25)
29th Feb 2020
A Simple Favor (2018)
Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the movie, the teacher asks "Has Nicky's mom volunteered?" The guy answers "Emily?" with his arms down his hips, but he had his arms folded across the chest just in the previous shot. (00:03:50)
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