Igby Goes Down

Revealing mistake: When Igby and his brother are removing the plastic bag from Mimi's head, her eyes blink.

Continuity mistake: When Igby's dad breaks the shower door, he breaks it with his right arm. The next shot has him cradling a badly cut and lacerated left arm.

Continuity mistake: When the spoon falls, 2 globs of the strawberry flavoured poison land on the carpet beside it. When the spoon is seen later, the poison is gone. (00:03:05 - 01:30:10)

jle

Continuity mistake: When Igby is saying goodbye to Ollie, Igby's collar is alternately neatly down and crumpled up. (01:31:45)

jle

Continuity mistake: When Igby is at his Godfather's party, and is drinking from the wine glass with cigarette ash in it, the glass changes hands. When the ash is put into the glass, he is holding it in his right hand, then the camera angle changes and it is now in his left hand, where it remains for the rest of the scene.

mandy gasson

Continuity mistake: When Sookie and Igby are in the diner, in some shots the straw in Igby's coke is straight and in others it is bent over at the top. (00:41:05)

jle

Continuity mistake: When Igby is throwing water-filled balloons off of the building, the shadows of the people on the ground are pointing in a completely different direction to Igby's shadow on the roof. If it is the same building, then the shots were taken several hours apart. (00:49:10)

jle

Continuity mistake: In the death scene at the beginning, a spoon drops to the floor when the mother dies. At the end of the movie, in the return to the death scene, the older son is feeding the mother the poison and then sets the bowl and spoon aside. The mother never has the spoon in her own hand.

Continuity mistake: When Igby and Sooki are eating ice cream near the end of the film, the amount of ice cream on Sooki's spoon changes throughout.

Continuity mistake: When Igby is saying goodbye to Ollie, Ollie's drink is alternately being held next to his stomach and down by his side. (01:31:45)

jle

Continuity mistake: When Jason and the children are walking along the street, talking about his illness, a red car appears parked behind them. (00:04:15)

jle

Continuity mistake: There is a scene when Igby knocks at Sooki's door. From her side, there is a "magic eye", but on the outside, there is nothing. (01:09:00)

Dr Wilson

Mimi: I take it you know that D.H. is your father?
Igby: No.
Mimi: Then I'm really glad I told you.

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