Revealing mistake: When Lanie and Pete drop off Pete's son, he is supposed to be asleep, but as they pull up to the house you can see the kid awake and talking and only when the car stops does he close his eyes.
Life or Something Like It (2002)
1 revealing mistake
Directed by: Stephen Herek
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Tony Shalhoub, Edward Burns, Christian Kane
Continuity mistake: When Lanie and her sister Gwen are talking at Gwen's home there is a plate of cookies sitting on the table between them. As the conversation shifts back and forth between them, the positions of the cookies on the plate shift.
Lanie: Someone once said, live everyday as if it were your last cause one of these its gonna be. Jack was right a part of me did die that day the part of me that didn't know how to live. What does the future hold, Jack knows. When I talk to him I make sure we only talk about sports and weather.
Question: Excluding plot device, when Lanie goes to see Prophet Jack a second time, why didn't she simply ask him how she was going to die?
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Answer: Probably one of many reasons. It could be fear, denial, inevitability, accepting one's fate, and so on. Not many people want to know exactly when and how they will die.
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