The Intern

Continuity mistake: Jules feels icky at the sight of the abominable mess left on a desk by the employees. In the close-up of the guy that dumps a box on it, the items are not in the same position as in the other shots - look at the Kate Moss book at the top, and at the red striped shirt that suddenly shows its label. (00:23:15)

Sammo

Continuity mistake: Jay is telling Ben the story of his faux pas with Becky. When he gets to the part about the mail and mentions the subject, the same person in the background (dark green short, light bag) is at the same spot even after a long cut on Jay that details the quantity of OS in "sorry." Same thing a few seconds later when he talks about the emoticon's tear and another girl, closer to him in the foreground, moves right to left. (00:22:35)

Sammo

Continuity mistake: Ben is tutoring Davis when Jay interrupts them saying "Hey, look, here she comes, watch how she won't even..." The sentence is spoken across two separate shots, and in the second he's pointing at himself, in the first he is not. (00:21:35)

Sammo

Continuity mistake: Ben is talking to the secretary about the 3:55 appointment. When Becky points at the door to Jules' office, she is holding a pen that vanishes in the next shot. (00:17:35)

Sammo

Continuity mistake: Asked by Jay, Ben says that he's gonna be a personal intern. A woman on the background is walking left to right. "Nice", he immediately replies, and the woman meanwhile already reached the other side of the room. (00:15:45)

Sammo

Continuity mistake: When De Niro does a De Niro face at the intern that will help him with the laptop a moment later, he has his leather organizer in hand. He then opens the briefcase, which contains also the organizer. (00:15:00)

Sammo

Continuity mistake: On the first day as intern, Ben sits down at the desk and there's a wide shot of the room. The 'normal age' intern opens the laptop immediately, but when we see a moment later that he empties his bag's content on the desk, the laptop is closed. (00:14:45)

Sammo

Continuity mistake: When Jules' secretary follows her and tells her about the meeting and then her mom, a black guy in a blue shirt and grey sweater walks around the line of desks in the background twice in a row and carries a folder with a different hand in the first 2 shots. Similarly, a girl with a pink sweater repeats the action (walking past them and checking them out). (00:07:40)

Sammo

Continuity mistake: Jules' secretary is telling her about all the stuff she has to do now that she's done being the best customer service gal ever. She said that she wants to implement online shopping with friends. The secretary has the pen at the ready in front of the post-it notes. Next shot (Jules says "E-mail me that idea") and the secretary only then is pulling the pen out from behind the notes. (00:07:35)

Sammo

Continuity mistake: Patty reminds Ben that he's not getting any younger as she uses her left hand to make a couple of gestures (she touches her chin, then her hair). Neither is linked to the hand position in the other shots. (00:04:30)

Sammo

Continuity mistake: When Patty tells Ben that she could add salad to his frozen lasagna and turn it into a dinner for two, De Niro one moment is holding the shopping back with his left hand on the handles, and the next he has the bag in his arms. Besides the little jump in montage (which anyway does come off as pretty natural), the double set of handles overlap in one camera angle, and they diverge in the other. (00:04:05)

Sammo

Continuity mistake: Ben is commenting the flyer with the flirty woman he's not interested in. He asks, leaving the phrase hanging, "Isn't that the outfit that was...?" Gesticulating, he waves the flyer towards his left, but he's holding it still in front of Patty in the reverse angle. (00:03:30)

Sammo

Continuity mistake: When Anne Hathaway is showing Robert De Niro how to use Facebook, she pulls her phone out of her pocket as she asks if he has a photo of himself. When the shot changes for his answer, she pulls the phone out again. (00:53:20)

More mistakes in The Intern

Ben: Back in action. Thank god.

More quotes from The Intern
More trivia for The Intern

Join the mailing list

Separate from membership, this is to get updates about mistakes in recent releases. Addresses are not passed on to any third party, and are used solely for direct communication from this site. You can unsubscribe at any time.

Check out the mistake & trivia books, on Kindle and in paperback.