Continuity mistake: In the final scene, when Parker Posey shoots her brother, just before they act out their JFK shooting re-enactment her shirt is unbuttoned and she begins to button it. A couple of minutes later, when she's holding the gun, her shirt is unbuttoned again.
Continuity mistake: In the last scene, Max's bathing suit changes color, from dark blue to light tan, back to dark blue.
Revealing mistake: In the scene where the geoligist's husband calls her from the L.A. airport to say he's going to try to make it home, a strong aftershock collapses the wall that the pay phone is mounted on - as this occurs you can see cables attached to the wall pulling it over.
Plot hole: Katherine (Kirstie Alley) the tooth fairy is instructed by Rodgers (Lynn Redgrave) that she can only go out at night, otherwise she stays in an apartment in Limbo to get her assignments. She is given names all over the world. There is always a part of the world that is in nighttime. She should always be working and never at Limbo.
Continuity mistake: Robert Downey Jr.'s two girl friends sit down at the kitchen counter of one's loft to share a bottle of tequila and their sorrows. The camera shifts back and forth between the two as they dialogue and the cap to the tequila bottle sitting on the counter disappears and reappears between shots.
Continuity mistake: When Jeffrey is on the phone, he is holding the phone by his ear in the front view, while in the shot of his back there is no phone by his ear.
Continuity mistake: After the gunfight Redmond talks about girls, etc. The guy he talks to crashes his can of beer with his right hand in one shot of Redmond but when in another shot the can ends up in his left hand.
Continuity mistake: In 4th black's move, king's bishop go to third row (A3) and capture the white knight. There is not elipsis yet, but. in 6th black's move, Geri's imaginary opponent takes a piece from A4 to B3 and capture a white pawn. but there wasn't any piece previously on A4, in fact, pawn was not moved before, staying on B2, its original place. In the next shot black bishop remains on A3 and white pawn on B2, as nothing was happened.
Continuity mistake: In the scene where the cop car is over taking the runaway car you can see the front bumper of the runaway car and it's in perfect condition however earlier you see them take it off. in the next shot its back to normal.
Continuity mistake: When Hemeda is getting dressed in the presence of Nour El Sherif, he changes from being in his underwear to fully dressed in a complicated costume in a few seconds.
Factual error: At one point late in the film, Terry says she called in a favor to the "District Attorney" after Lim was arrested. In Chicago, where the film is set and where the arrest took place, there are State's Attorneys, not District Attorneys. Terry, a lawyer practicing in Chicago, would most definitely have known that.
Continuity mistake: When Danielle is in the evening gown section in the Miss Madison competition, her dress changes from sky blue to sparkly dark blue after the shot cuts to her mother.
Continuity mistake: When Monica and Steve are in Monica's classroom, the position of her hair changes from being over one shoulder, to being over two shoulders as the shots change from being in front of her and behind her.
Factual error: As Danny arrives in Hollywood at the beginning of the film, the Hollywood sign can be seen. The film is set in 1939 so the sign should still read Hollywoodland, as it did until 1949. (00:03:00)
Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the film, when Martin Short is taking the test, a woman in a pink dress gets up to hand her test in, but later she is still sitting in the room.
Continuity mistake: When Joe realises that Jimmy isn't turning up at the park he goes to a pay phone, puts the red notebook down with the spine faceing to the right and starting phoning the FBI. In the next shot the the notebook has rotated 90 degrees with the spine now facing the wall. (01:06:45)
Character mistake: When they are preparing to film the "Albanian Girl" fleeing the war the girl with the clip board refers to the actress playing the "Albanian Girl" (Kirsten Dunst) by her real name, Kirsten rather than her character name Tracy.
Plot hole: In the waning seconds of the championship game, the Huskies are down by 2 and UMass has the ball. Not only do the Huskies not intentionally foul to stop the clock, but UMass attempts to run a play and set up a basket when they simply could have dribbled out the clock and won the game. Both these strategies go against what any basketball team would do in this situation, especially in a championship game.
Other mistake: When Mimi wants to dance, and she wipes the diner table clean, the table is about 2 feet square. When Mimi and Jimmy dance, they are 6 feet apart, despite dancing on that small table. (00:39:00 - 00:39:40)
Continuity mistake: Dr. Werner Ernst is talking with nurse Stella as he has his cup of hot liquid. She asks him "Is the world really that shallow?" James Spader is holding the cup from the top without using the handle, but in the next shot he is holding it from the side instead as he puts it down on the desk. (00:04:35)