Working Girl

Continuity mistake: When Jack carries a drunken Tess up to his apartment after their first meeting and he unlocks the door, the lock is on his right. When he opens the door, it opens as if the lock is on his left.

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Suggested correction: It only appears as if the lock is opposite because Jack is standing to the left of the actual door not in front of it. When he walks in he would be moving right to walk in.

Plot hole: We see Tess wearing Catherine's clothes when Catherine is gone, but Catherine is much slimmer than Tess. They wouldn't fit without being altered and she had no time to do so.

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Suggested correction: Katherine is also taller than Tess. The same size could fit a taller, slimmer woman and a shorter, less slim woman.

Continuity mistake: The timing of the ending is all wrong. First, we see Tess at Cyn's engagement party; then, no more than a week or two later is the business meeting where Katherine storms in and "outs" Tess. We then next see Tess at Cyn's wedding, a perfectly planned affair with fitted bridesmaid dresses and everything - implying that some time has passed, since it takes much longer than a few weeks to pull a wedding like that together. This seems to be bolstered by next seeing Tess going back into the office to get her stuff back, and Katherine's broken leg is now out of its cast, and she has a cane. BUT - Tess goes back into the office to get her stuff, which would imply that only a few days at most has passed - who leaves their stuff very long in an office where they've just been fired? Also, she runs into Katherine putting the finishing touches on the deal - it doesn't seem likely that the deal, which was agreed upon in the meeting, would take very long to be finally finished. The business world as depicted in the movie moves very fast.

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Suggested correction: There's no indication of how much time has passed. I didn't perceive the week or two you referred to.

Continuity mistake: From Katherine's office there is a beautiful view on a waterway (New Yorkers will know the name). In every scene there there is a lot of discontinuity regarding the ships and ferries appearing and disappearing, especially when Tess comes to the office the second time to take some notes. (00:16:10)

NancyFelix

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Alice Baxter: Maybe now would be a good time to go over what you expect of me.
Tess McGill: I expect you to call me Tess. I don't expect you to fetch me coffee unless you're getting some for yourself. And the rest we'll just make up as we go along.

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Trivia: Catherine tosses a huge black gorilla to Tess as she gets off the helicopter. This was an inside joke reference to "Gorillas in the Mist" which Sigourney Weaver had just finished filming and was released only three months before this movie.

Lynette Carrington

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Question: If Jack and Katherine were a couple, how is it that Jack doesn't recognize Katherine's office when he goes there to confirm him and Tess to start working on the Trask deal?

Answer: It is also stated in the movie that Katherine just transferred down from Boston, and she is staying at her parents house. She also mentions in another scene that her and Jack are now in the same city. Plus Tess helps plan her welcome party to get to know others in her department indicating that she is new there. Maybe Jack had not got a chance to visit her office yet, which would explain why he would not have known.

Answer: Unless Katherine had recently moved to a new office, which it does not appear that she did, then Jack should know this was her office. However, it is also possible that he had just never been there before and they only saw each other outside of work. When Jack went to see Tess, he had a specific business reason for going there.

raywest

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