Fatal Attraction (1987) - 65 mistakes

Continuity: In the very first scene we see Ann Archer pulling down a shade from afar with the curtains pulled to the side. Then we switch to her inside the apartment and see the curtains are already closed.

Continuity: Quincy is sleeping on the little girl and keeps changing positions on her lap.

Visible crew/equipment: The shadow of a crew member goes across Michael Douglas' shirt as he's sitting on the couch reading in the beginning of the movie.

Continuity: As a little girl is sitting on the couch with the dog, there is a book to the left of her which is gone in the next shot.

Visible crew/equipment: In the beginning of the movie as Michael Douglas runs to answer the phone someone has knocked the overhead lamp in his kitchen and set it swinging.

Continuity: In the party scene the people behind Stewart Pankin on the slow moving food line change it just a matter of seconds from shot to shot.

Continuity: The part in Stuart Pankin's hair keeps changing in the party scene.

Visible crew/equipment: When the family leaves their apartment building you can see the reflection of a boom mike in the right door.

Visible crew/equipment: This is much easer to see on the VHS version. As Michael Douglas goes through the revolving door at his office, as it stops, you see the reflection of a crew member standing there.

Continuity: In the elevator scene as you look down the shaft from above, the air is crystal clear with no smoke in sight. Then in a few seconds smoke appears near the windows but in the next shot when the elevator stops the smoke is gone.

Continuity: In the scene where Michael Douglas is listening to the answering machine look at the towel to the right of the paper towel rack. It is moved the next time you see it.

Continuity: When Michael Douglas comes home the first night after being a bad boy with Glenn Close, he is shown in the kitchen talking on the phone to his wife at a little after 8:30 AM. Not only does he talk to her, but he also has a whispery chat with his lover, walks all about the kitchen, sits at the table, and the time on the clock doesn't change once.

Continuity: As Michael Douglas listens to the answering machine, the green overhead lamp that is above the table in the beginning of the movie is gone.

Visible crew/equipment: This is very tough to spot, but as Michael Douglas is in his kitchen talking to Ann Archer, if you look very closely above his head you'll see a quick tiny white reflection of a piece of equipment in the glass cabinet.

Deliberate "mistake": When Michael Douglas pretends to be hurt in the field, Glenn Close says, "You bastard," and her hair it not in the sunlight. In the very next shot it is.

Continuity: When Michael Douglas pretends to be hurt in the field, Glenn Close says, "My father died of heart attack," and she has a long earring dangling from her right ear. In the very next shot it's gone.

Continuity: After Glen Close kicks Michael Douglas out of her apartment he's standing next to her bicycle holding his stuff. It can be assumed that he put the stuff on the bicycle seat because in the next shot his hands and the handlebars are empty. But later as we see him getting ready to leave again his stuff is the on handlebars.

Continuity: As Michael Douglas busts down Glenn Close's door, you to see from the outside it's not latched. But from the inside it is.

Visible crew/equipment: A shadow moves to the left of the refrigerator when Glenn Close says "I'm pregnant I'm gonna have our child." Michael Douglas doesn't move out of his position yet.

Visible crew/equipment: When Michael Douglas leaves the car rental there is a guy across the street behind a bus conspicuously watching everything. 01:15:45.