Corrected entry: When Meg Ryan and her boyfriend are making out at the airport terminal before she gets on the plane, watch the pillar in the background. Just to the left of it Billy Crystal is standing, waiting for a cue to walk around the corner and see them.
Corrected entry: Harry and Sally are talking to their respected friends (the split screen scene) about how they just had sex, in Harry's split screen is a mirror. Watch in the reflection as a crew member walks by as if nothing has happened. He actually walks by twice, in different directions. The film's director Rob Reiner walks by carrying some equipment seconds later. (01:13:55 - 01:14:20)
Correction: Harry is in a public place using a public phone. The scene implies that both Harry and Sally have called their friends right away after Harry leaves Sally's place. The type of phone Harry uses, plus the mirror to see the people passing by helps reinforce this theory, and thus the rush of his call. Seeing passers by in a mirror (even if they're cameos by members of the crew) fits the scene.
Corrected entry: When the three women are sitting in the open air restaurant and one takes out the rolodex of boys' names, she takes them both from the front even though, because of alphabetical order, they should not be near each other.
Correction: The first card is taken from the very front and that man's surname begins with A (Alex Anderson). She passes over several cards before pulling the second card, where the man's surname begins with D (Ken Darman). Alphabetically speaking, A and D are near each other and the second card should be taken from near the front considering the size of her card file. Therefore they appear to be taken from the correct positions.
Corrected entry: Their cross-country drive supposedly took place in 1976 or '77, but when they stop at the diner, the credit card decal on the door advertises "VISA." Bank Americard didn't change its name to VISA until 1979.
Correction: Has the dubious honour of being the longest-standing misconception - added years ago, and only corrected October 2002 - the name was changed in 1976. Check out VISA's website..
Corrected entry: When they are with their friends arguing over the ugly coffee table, Sally is wearing black trousers. When she goes outside to talk to Billy Crystal, she's wearing blue jeans.
Correction: They're dark blue - they just look black in the low light indoors.
Corrected entry: When Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan drive from Chicago to NYC, she drops him off in front of Columbus Arch. In order for her to be parked in the direction and on the side of the street that she is, she would have had to driven the wrong way against oncoming traffic.
Correction: I believe it is the Arch at Washington Park. She would be going down the street in the right direction.
Corrected entry: When the women are in the open air restaurant and Carrie Fisher's character takes out the index cards to read off eligible guy's names, after she mentions the first one is married, she goes to bend the corner of the card. If you look closely the corner of the card is already creased before she goes to fold it over.
Correction: She folds it over because she finds out that the man is married. He might have been married before and then divorced, hence she may have had the card folded before.
He might, or might not. The detail is legitimate; nobody in the movie makes a comment on the guy being at his second marriage, and the obvious explanation is that it was from a previous take - Carrie Fisher is even trying to hide that corner the whole time.
Corrected entry: At the beginning of the movie, they are leaving the campus of the University of Chicago to drive to New York. The next shot is of the car driving north on Lake Shore Drive, north of downtown. This route would take them to Evanston, not New York city.
Correction: OK, now it gets complicated. They are actually driving south, not north. However, Lake Michigan is in the foreground and the downtown skyline is in the background which means that they are driving south towards the University of Chicago and would pass it on their way to New York. Since they've left the U of C to drive south (to the Indiana and Ohio tollroads, Pennsylvania Turnpike, etc) to go to New York they cannot have started north of the U of C and once again pass it.
Corrected entry: In the final New Year's Eve scene when Harry rushes into the party and sees Sally, her lipstick is very glossy and perfect. In the following shots of her, the lipstick is in various states of condition and sometimes slightly smeared, which evidently happened due to multiple takes. (01:30:30)
Corrected entry: When Harry and Sally are walking to the museum, telling their stories about their sex dreams, Sally does not have a brooch anywhere on her blazer. However, when they are in the museum, she suddenly has a round brooch on the left lapel of her jacket.
Correction: But he has a 'brooch' too; it's a cheap pin that looks like something they would have gotten at the gift shop of the museum they were visiting. An unspecified amount of time passes between the two parts of the scene, and it's not a fashion item that was part of her look and would require some styling to be worn. As I said, he's wearing one too; it's just a pin, not a brooch.
Corrected entry: Throughout the movie, Meg Ryan's hair changes styles to depict the different eras. But in a montage of her and Billy Crystal, when it looks like she is doing yet another of her long-winded menu requests to an exasperated waiter, her hair is straight and almost waist-length. This is her hairstyle at the very end of the movie, when she and Billy are talking about their wedding cake with the coconut and rich chocolate sauce. (00:36:25 - 01:31:35)
Correction: How, though? She has long, straight hair in the montage (with the hilarious eye roll by the Chinese waiter), and nothing at all resembles the look she has at the end of the movie. Harry even has a beard in the montage and is clean-shaven in the ending. I am also uploading a picture just in case.
Correction: The person standing just behind the pillar is a man who is wearing a dark brown suit. He is standing looking down, and emerges right after Billy Crystal does. It is not clear where Billy was coming from, but he wasn't behind the pillar. He is also wearing a gray suit.