The Intern

The Intern (2015)

78 mistakes since 22 Jan '17, 00:00

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Continuity mistake: Paige "like a clone" tries to correct Ben about the best course. She says "This is it" and touches the computer; her left hand is on the armrest of her seat. It's under the computer thingie in the next shot when Ben says the line. (01:23:15)

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Continuity mistake: The gang is celebrating with tequila shots after the successful heist. There's a supposedly diegetic song in the background at the bar, but if you look at the moment they gulp down the liquor, after the cut they must have performed other actions - for instance, Davis put the lime inside his own glass. (01:14:45)

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Continuity mistake: In the sequence when she realises she sent the mail insulting her mom...to her mom, Jules' fingers completely switch place on the phone from the close-up to the other angles. (01:09:20)

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Continuity mistake: Jules is interrupted by the bedbugs call while she is in the middle of typing the mail insulting her mom. She stops at the word "normal." She resumes typing, adding "ish", but meanwhile the mail also gained a subject, which was blank earlier. (01:08:30 - 01:09:00)

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Continuity mistake: Jules is in the car, dealing with the 'zoom button' crisis. She asks Ben for the analytics of friends shopping together, and the phone rings. In close-up, she's reading the report (which, incidentally, is full of stuff that fails to make any point whatsoever) in an inner page, but in the shots before and after she has yet to open it. (01:07:50)

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Continuity mistake: Jules is telling her 'sister wives' about the interest from the San Francisco CEO. She picks up the cream to add to her coffee, which she is holding using the mug's hand. Camera cuts away on Matt, and while she is still holding both the mug and the creamer in mid-air, she managed to switch the grip on the mug to the opposite side. (01:06:25)

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Continuity mistake: The morning after having taken Davis in, Ben is having breakfast again with Jules' family. Paige asks him to pour her more syrup. The syrup De Niro pours spreads nicely over about a third of the pancake, but in the reverse shot there's barely a smidgen. (01:06:00)

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Continuity mistake: When Ben reports the purchase patterns, as soon as he says "Thats...what I could tell" there's a jump in continuity, since his hand is no longer at the back of the folder but on the part closer to his chest, and the women in the background have changed position too. Worth noting also that Jules in the foreground is holding her pen with both hands but will be in a different position in the next shot. (01:03:40)

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Continuity mistake: In the sequence when Doris nearly has a car accident with her boss, the different angles are shot at totally different times of the days, as made evident by the shadows of the foliage on the asphalt. (00:58:40)

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Continuity mistake: Jules is having a beer with her intern; when she grabs a chair, she moves the bottle from the right hand to the left hand as she uses the right hand to open the pizza box, but in the next shot she got it wrong, and she is doing the exact opposite, opening it with her left, beer firmly in her right hand. (00:51:05)

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Continuity mistake: Jay is telling Ben about his 'progress' with Becky. Davis is listening, hands clasped together. In the next shot ("Right? It was communication!") his pose is different and the hands distant. (00:50:00)

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Continuity mistake: Ben is driving Jules after threatening her driver. During the scene, depending on the camera angle the safety belt sometimes is under the coat's lapel, other times it's away from it. (00:31:45)

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Continuity mistake: Jules ordered some of her own clothes to do some quality control. In the close-up of the box it is shown on the far right of the screen that the person opening the box put also down the lid. The next shot shows Jules with the lid still in hand. (00:42:50)

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Continuity mistake: Ben is having morning coffee with Jules' hubby and daughter. Paige says that Ben being an intern is "hysterical." Ben nods; the girl is eating a spoonful of her cereal but in the next shot she's just looking at him, the spoon is in her bowl. (00:42:05)

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Continuity mistake: Ben rings Jules' doorbell for the first morning as her driver, and her husband answers the door. His hand is down his side. He then points at the house in reverse shot, but as the camera returns to the previous angle, Matt's hand never left his side. (00:41:30)

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Continuity mistake: When Ben dials Fiona's number looking the number up in the card, there's a close-up of his kitchen table where the plates and glasses are in a different position compared to the rest of the scene (the salad bowl touches the paper towel, and the wine glass is off the line between the boards). (00:37:55)

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Continuity mistake: In the close-up of the kitchen isle all set up for the 'Play-Doh challenge', the pink jar is by the hubby's cake, but in the other shots it's next to the kid's. (00:36:45)

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Continuity mistake: The first time we see Jules at home, she gets a glass of wine, but her husband is still passing it in the next shot. (00:36:40)

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Continuity mistake: When Ben talks to the driver with unhealthy drinking habits, the shadows of the foliage behind Mark change between shots. (00:30:35)

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Continuity mistake: The morning Ben cleans up the messy desk, there are two opening shots of the building. The first one shows the sidewalk in front of the factory perfectly sunlit with noon shadows, followed by another one with significantly different shadows (more appropriate to the early morning scenario). (00:27:10)

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Ben: "You're never wrong to do the right thing."
Jules: Who said that, you?
Ben: Yeah. But I'm pretty sure Mark Twain said it first.

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