Towards the beginning of the movie when Rankin Fitch is in the cab, watch the meter. They drive only for a few minutes, but the meter never changes from $24.50. See more...
When Dustin Hoffman and Gene Hackman have their showdown in the lavatory towards the end, Hackman greets him and says that this is a "long overdue pleasure." This is a reference to the fact that this scene is the first scene ever between Hoffman and Hackman, two former classmates at film school, in their substantial screen careers. Despite being in the industry for decades, and being long-time friends, they had never made a movie together. See more...
starring Dustin Hoffman, Gene Hackman, Jeremy Piven, John Cusack, Rachel Weisz (add more)
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In the very beginning of the movie, Henry turns five years old. During the first day of the trial (when the jury and the foreman are elected), Rohr says that Henry was six years old. [It is pointed out later in the film in a speech by Dustin Hoffman that a year has passed since the shooting of Henry's father.]
When Fitch's assistant is escaping from Nicholas Easter's apartment, Easter smashes the windscreen with an iron pole, but a few seconds later suddenly the windscreen is whole again. [This was already corrected once. Easter smashes the driver's side of the windshield, but there are very few cracks on the passenger side. He hits the driver's side again, smashing it further, but he never hits the passenger side. Car safety glass is designed so that the whole thing doesn't shatter in one blow like plate glass.]
Towards the end of the film, Rankin Fitch's private investigator, who has been investigating Nicholas Easter's background, calls Fitch and tells him he's headed to some small town in central Indiana and even gives Fitch an exit number. Wouldn't Fitch, who knows Easter has been stalking his gun cases, recognize that he once worked on a gun industry suit in a small central Indiana town? [Fitch knows that Easter has been stalking gun cases, but not Fitch's gun cases in particular. Also, Fitch doesn't remember about that particular case himself until later because he has worked many cases, not all gun related, and wouldn't recognize one particular place on that long list. It's obvious that Fitch doesn't spend much time with the locals during the movie.]
In the scene when Nicholas Easter enters the New Orleans courthouse for the first time it is pouring rain outside. As he stops to look up at the building, there is blue sky and a few white puffy clouds. [When he enters the courthouse for the first time (after he kvetches to his friends about jury duty) it is very much a bright, sunny day.]
John Cusack is beating a car with a lead pipe. Subsequent to smashing the windshield, shots alternate back and forth between a shattered and unshattered windshield. [He shatters the driver's side of the windshield with the first blow, leaving the passenger side relatively unaffected. Then he hits the windshield again and makes another bar-shaped mark next to the first one, again on the driver's side. Shots showing the driver's side are shattered, but shots on the passenger side are relatively unaffected.]
in the scene where towards the end of the movie when Hackman's and Hoffman's characters are in the large bathroom, just after a 3rd person tries to enter the bathroom, Hoffman "locks" the door's sliding bold, but there is no "U ring" on the door frame into which the bolt would need to slide to keep the door from opening. [Some sliding bolts don't use a "U-ring" but just slide directly into a hole drilled into the door frame.]
When Gene Hackman is in the men's room with Dustin Hoffman, they are arguing. Dustin Hoffman makes a statement regarding the tobacco industry, which is what the book is about, while the movie was about the rifle industry. [He doesn't say this trial is about the tobacco industry, he just refers to Rankins shoes and wonders if they are purchased with funds from "big tobacco".]
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