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Continuity mistake: When Ellen's dad is heading to his office in the morning, his assistant is reading out loud to other employees the article dealing with her party hijinks (the only sentence on that prop that talks about that subject, by the way). Behind her in there's a woman holding a blue clipboard - she is holding it with the right hand on the corner in the close-up, while it was the left hand in the shot before. (00:04:35)

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Continuity mistake: After her display of gymnastic (and underwear), Ellen receives the charity donation from the party guest. She says "Toys for Tots thanks you for your generosity"; at the first word she is switching hand position from the top corner of the check to the bottom corner. But at the cut, she is holding it again by the top corner. (00:03:00)

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Continuity mistake: Ellie is about to tell Jake the truth about her, but he is called away to help fix some part of the stage. The woman with the cap is screwing the mock house roughly at the point where Jake is holding the column. At the cut her hand moved at the top of the archway. (01:13:00)

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Continuity mistake: Gray blurts out at the bar Ellen's real name. Jake realises who she is, and there's a reaction shot of Gray realizing he messed up. The olive stick in his martini is in a different position than in the rest of the scene, so is the level of the drink. (01:20:05)

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Continuity mistake: Ellen squeals, scared by the hot water bottle. Fellow hotel patrons poke their head in. A guy is the first and only one, but in the next shot a woman is next to him already. (00:31:00)

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Continuity mistake: Ellen's boyfriend across the phone call at the inn the second day is walking down a road, but 3 times is back at the same crossroads with a Christmas tree and a taxi. (00:33:15)

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Continuity mistake: When Ellie is cleaning up the room, at the very beginning of the scene the candles on the table are close in the sideview and more far apart in the birdseye view. (00:37:10)

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Continuity mistake: Ellen and the charming taxi guy lift a blue robe of hers. The robe is more dirty with fake snow in the close-up than it was in the wider angle. (00:16:25)

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Continuity mistake: At the bus terminal, Ellen opens the envelope with the money with three fingers on the outer side in close-up, four fingers before and after. (00:11:55)

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Continuity mistake: During the lunch scene with Ellen and her dad, the shadows cast on the table change rather obviously depending on the camera angle. (00:07:15)

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Continuity mistake: Debbie hands Ellie the oven mitts with her right hand, at the cut she is holding them in her left hand. (01:25:35)

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Continuity mistake: Ellie hands the first leaflet picking it by the right side, but in close-up she's holding it from the top. (01:04:00)

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Continuity mistake: During the drunken gymnastics young Miss Langford is doing to the delight of the paparazzi, she is wearing transparent pantyhose for the most part of the scene; you can see it during the cartwheels with the panty shot, and with the feet close-up. However her legs and feet are bare when the camera shows a stuntwoman leaping over the gifts and crashing into the tree (probably they didn't want to tear the stockings with that landing). (00:02:30 - 00:03:55)

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