13 Going On 30 (2004) - 37 mistakes

Continuity: Towards the end of the film, when adult Mattie hands Jenna the dream house (rebuilt) he had made for her 13th birthday years ago, there is hardly any "wishing dust" on its roof. However, moments later, when Jenna walks outside and sits on her front porch, there is plenty of "wishing dust" all over the roof of the toy house now.

Continuity: In her apartment Jenna walks out into the hallway, looks at herself in the mirror and stumbles backwards over the shelf behind her. There is a short stack of magazines on that shelf, yet when Jenna looks at herself in the mirror the stack of magazines is at least three times as high in the reflection.

Continuity: When the six girls arrive for the party, in the first shot Tom-Tom tosses her blue jacket, then the second girl lays her red jacket and the third girl starts to put her pink jacket into Jenna's arms. Yet, at the start of the next shot facing Jenna, she holds only the blue jacket, since the red jacket is gone, the pink jacket is placed in Jenna's arms on top of the blue jacket and then the red jacket is thrown into her arms from off camera, before the rest of the girls dump their jackets into her arms. Then in Jenna's close-up, the jackets are positioned very differently in her arms.

Factual error: When Jenna first wakes up 30 years old and calls her parents, she dials 7 keys on the phone. Since her parents are in NJ and she is in NYC, she would've had to made 11 keystrokes (1 + areacode + 7 digit phone number) to get to their voicemail.

Factual error: After putting Jenna in the closet, everyone crowds together and plan to leave. One girl holds a diet coke can, which is obviously a more modern design, and not from 1980's.

Visible crew/equipment: When Lucy closes the car door after Jenna finally gets in, you can see the microphone and microphone pole through the reflection of the car.

Continuity: When Jenna and her boyfriend sit on the sofa, there is a basketball on the sofa which disappears between shots.

Continuity: When Jenna enters her office she throws her silver bag on a chair, and as she walks over to the photos you can see the bag is laying on it's side. When the woman knocks on the door you can see the silver bag again, but now it's standing upright, as you can tell by the straps/handles.

Continuity: When Jenna first walks around after turning 30, the camera pans around the apartment and we get a good view of the small glass table in the lounge, and there is a remote control next to a magazine. When Jenna goes and sits on the yellow chair though, the remote is now on the magazine. Later when Jenna is throwing her letters, the remote has moved to its original place.

Revealing: When Jenna is in her bedroom with her mom, as she points to the pictures in the article in Poise magazine, "30, Flirty and Thriving," it is blatantly apparent that it is not Jenna's hand in the close-up but a body double.

Continuity: When Jenna is 13, she enters the closet at her party and between shots from when she tells Tom-tom where the projects are, to the next shot of her, the blindfold tied around her seems to turns upside down. If you look at the pattern (stripes) it flips over.

Continuity: When Alex walks into the hallway wearing a towel, the towel is wrapped around him differently in the first shot when he asks Jenna for conditioner and then when he whips the towel off.

Continuity: When Jenna and her her best friend are outside the office in the beginning of the film, the amount of hair tucked behind her friends ear varies from shot to shot.

Continuity: When Matt and Jenna meet at the park before the photo shoot, Jenna hands Matt the envelope. In the shot facing Jenna she gives him the letter with her left hand, yet in the next shot she hands him the envelope with her right hand.

Other: Wendy loses her accent and it changes at points, such as when she asks Matt if he's hungry.

Continuity: When Jenna first realizes that she is thirty and she walks down the hallway, there is a pile of magazines on the counter with the mirror. Then in the next shot, the pile of magazines isn't there.

Continuity: After Lucy's meeting about her new "Poise" design, she storms out frustrated, and whacks a box to the floor causing items such as a few bags to scatter on the floor. Between shots the bags move majorly.

Continuity: When Jenna is talking to Matt and his fiancee on the street, they leave, and then Lucy turns and starts to walk off, and she has a cigarette in her right hand which she puts it into her left hand. Then when the shot changes the cigarette is back in her right hand.

Continuity: Jenna's white drink at the party repeatedly changes - the amount of drink inside rises and lowers between shots.

Continuity: When Jenna goes to her boyfriends house, they sit on the sofa and then the boyfriend places two glasses on the table. He then puts his right arm around Jenna, and his left arm lays on his leg. Then when it cuts his left arm is laying on a cushion.

Continuity: When Jenna first sees herself in the mirror as 30 she falls over the side and then looks over it into the mirror. In a shot facing her, only her left arm is on the side. Then in the next behind shot now both her arms are on the side. When it cuts back to the previous angle only her left arm is on the side again.

Continuity: When Jenna first sees her boyfriend she has the umbrella in her hand. She unhooks the strap on the umbrella, then the shot changes and the umbrella is hooked again, then back to unhooked.

Continuity: When Jenna, as a 30 year old, goes to her office for the first time (after her first meeting), she opens the door and has no handbag in her hands, in the next shot it shows her closing the door behind her and she throws her handbag onto the couch.

Continuity: When Matt and Jenna are in Jenna's apartment, from a back shot Jenna sips her Diet Coke then puts it down, and her hand is still on the can. Then when it cuts to a closeup of Jenna her hand is now on the yearbook.

Continuity: In the basement, when Tom-Tom tells Matt that Jenna is in the closet waiting for him, the TV is angled facing towards the stairs. However, when Jenna looks out from the closet to see everyone gone, the TV is facing the closet.

Continuity: When Jenna and Matt are talking in the park about her hiring him to be the Poise photographer, her hair on the left side of her head changes from being in front of her shoulder to behind her shoulder several times.

Continuity: Outside on the sidewalk, Lucy is giving Jenna a lecture on going into the office for the first time. The same woman in a purple dress walks by 3 times (behind Jenna.)

Continuity: At the first Poise meeting in the movie, Jenna is given a scone or biscuit at first it is raisinless. In the next shot it is full of raisins.

Continuity: When Jenna gets out of the car to go to her job for the first time, her hair/makeup is a little frazzled. As she and her friend talk outside the building, her hair becomes neater and skin a little darker from one shot to the next.

Revealing: When Jenna and Matt are talking in the park and Jenna asks Matt to take pictures for the magazine. Everything is fine that except a girl in the background walking turns and looks directly at the camera and at both actors.

Continuity: When Jenna is having her picture taken at the school when she is telling the photographer her name is Jenna her hair is in front of her ears but when you see the picture her hair is behind her.

Continuity: Just as Jenna is calling for a cab that happens to be driven by her old man, Chris Grady, she runs in the street and stops. The scene cuts to the cab slamming on its brakes, and then cuts back to her, but with the same cars sitting in the same spots as before she whistled about 2-3 seconds before.

Continuity: In her apartment, when Jenna walks into the hallway as she hears the musical tone of her cell phone, the position of her white coat differs in the wide shot and close-up and then when she runs out of her apartment as well.

Continuity: When Jenna goes to talk to Matt before he gets married, Matt's tie changes its position around his neck. It changes in the shots going to and from Matt and Jenna.

Continuity: In the scene where Jenna meets Matt's fiancee Wendy and then introduces them to her boyfriend Alex. As Matt and Wendy are leaving, Alex says "Nice to see you folks" and a second later as Matt and Wendy pass in front of him, he says "Nice to see you folks" again.

Continuity: When Jenna's boss puts the Sparkle magazine cover on the wall next to the Poise cover, they are only about 1/4" apart. This is very clear when he is talking about the numbers (11 vs 10) because they show a close-up shot of the covers. He asks a rhetorical question and Jenna raises her hand; from that point forward, the magazine covers are at least 1 1/2" to 2" apart.

Continuity: When Jenna first turns 30 she is walking down the hall of her apartment with an umbrella. In the first shot the umbrella is latched closed and Jenna unlatches it so that the umbrella can open up. In the very next scene it is back together.