Continuity mistake: When Sonora does her very first dive, we see Clifford release Lightning and he begins to trot up the ramp. In the next shot, the camera shows the front view of the horse, and he is cantering up the ramp. Then the camera goes back to Lightning's front view, and he is trotting again.
Continuity mistake: At the end when Jack (Ethan Hawke) is nailing the roof of his cabin he stops and looks around with the nails in his mouth. His head turns and the camera goes back and forth and suddenly the nails are in his hand. He then runs down the latter with no sign of the nails anywhere.
Continuity mistake: As the cops are taking the Hit and Run Son away, notice he his carrying a red plaid tote bag. Later in the movie, it miraculously appears in the possession of Still Working on the Same Painting. It can be plainly seen as she and her friend, Having a Day, are walking into the city sunset.
Continuity mistake: When Richie shoots Bobby on the sidewalk, after he spits on him, he walks to the road to get into the red sports car. Bobby's wife then runs over and gets on her knees to attend to Bobby, there is no red sports car on the road in the background, but in the next shot it shows Richie getting into the car and taking off from the position the car was originally waiting.
Continuity mistake: When Ruth climbs onto the train her shoes have rather high heels. When she jumps off her shoes are flat, but when she gets up the heels are back.
Continuity mistake: When the kid is playing his violin in the train station, his case at first (shot from a high angle) is about three feet away from him and then when the shot is close the case is right next to him.
Continuity mistake: When Larry is burning his books he throws one at Dorothy who is looking out of the window. The upper right part of a window pane breaks, but in the next shot the left side is broken. (00:11:20)
Continuity mistake: After Garfield has finished his speech at the stock holder's meeting, he returns to his chair and crosses his legs. They cut away and then quickly cut back to him in a long shot and he crosses his legs again in the exact same manner.
Continuity mistake: When Frank Jr. is laying in the hospital bed and the doctor comes over; the doctor has his hand up near his face when the camera is behind him, but when it's in front of him, his hand is down and off screen.
Continuity mistake: Towards the end of the movie two of the mob goons are dangling Patrick Dempsey over the rooftop. After a brief scuffle Dempsey is hanging on by one of the men's pants, which are ripped down to his ankles. When it shows the pantless goon fall off it cuts to inside where the mob boss sees him through the window, but his pants are now pulled up.
Continuity mistake: When Fred is talking to Jane about macrobiotics, he had a band-aid on this head. How did that happen? He got a band-aid why he got whacked with the globe, which comes later in the movie.
Continuity mistake: During the night surfing scene, you see a shot of the surface of the water from below, the sun is obviously visible.
Continuity mistake: The part where Corky drives Victoria through LA must have been composed from two takes, one where Corky has more rouge on her cheeks and only a small streak of dirt on her cheek (from an earlier car repair), and another one with almost no make up and an oil streak that goes from her ear to her nose.
Continuity mistake: Guy Bannister brutally pistol-whips Jack Martin (Jack Lemmon) across the face several times as a warning never to discuss his inside knowledge of the assassination. In the next shot of Jack on the floor, he has no blood or any visible abrasions whatsoever on his face. (00:14:04)
Continuity mistake: Once in the subtitles her name is written as Edna (her name is Emma).
Continuity mistake: As Frank and Tracy are walking across the pipes, there is a close-up shot of the pipe breaking in half as Tracy walks on it. However in the wide shot as Tracy falls, the pipe is intact and breaks again as Tracy falls on it. (01:23:10)
Continuity mistake: When Barton is talking to the film maker about writing the film the film maker has on a military uniform. As the scenes go back and forth between him and Barton the military ribbons come undone on one side and then miraculously return to normal.
Continuity mistake: There is a long sequence where the guy is talking to J. Roberts - I think its when they are at a beach house or cabin. The shots switch from him to her, in tight shots on their face. Watch him and you'll see his sideburns change lengths right before your eyes.
Continuity mistake: When the girl walks to the sleeping boy to look under his blanket, she is obviously totally naked. But when she returns to her own bed, she suddenly wears a thin white slip. (00:42:05)
Continuity mistake: In the part where Mike Church visits Gray Baker in the nursing home, he asks Mr. Baker what Roman Strauss said when asked if he really killed his wife. They show a flashback to when this happened and Roman bends over to tell Mr. Baker the answer. In the next shot Roman is standing up again, and then he is shown bending over again.