Continuity mistake: Tom and Sarah drive up to the main gate and Yuan looks at the monitor in the kitchen. On the monitor it shows 'main gate camera 1', for the camera situated above the gate. However when Tom and Peter drive up, the monitor in the kitchen shows that the camera above the gate is 'main gate camera 2' and the camera on the intercom box next to the car is 'main gate camera 1'. (00:03:20 - 01:25:55)
Continuity mistake: When Sarah approaches the server that the ashtray is on, the ashtray and other items are positioned differently in this shot, than when she picks up the ashtray in the close-up. (01:17:20)
Continuity mistake: Tom recalls the incident with Bags and in the first shot the tennis ball is on his desk, but in the next shot the tennis ball is on the floor near Bags. Tom did not put it there between shots. (01:02:20)
Continuity mistake: At Hotel DuReve, while Sarah says goodbye to her mom on the telephone, seen leaning against the windowsill is a tall lean wood stick, and the small white lace pillow is upright on the bed. In the next shot the pillow is lying flat on the bed. Then when Tom tries to force the plug into the outlet, in the front shots that windowsill is seen behind him and the stick is not there. (00:39:50)
Continuity mistake: Waiting to go together into the smelly lavatory on the airplane, Tom and Sarah stand outside the door. In the close-up Tom's red sweatshirt is off his right shoulder, but in the next shot it's back on his shoulder. Her hair is different in both shots too. (00:31:20)
Continuity mistake: When Sarah and Tom are sightseeing in Italy, Tom is harassed by the pigeons. During this scene from one shot to the next, as Sarah stands there, the people and buildings behind them are closer, then further away, then closer again. (00:55:50)
Continuity mistake: When the woman shows Tom and Sarah their room at the Pensione, the woman's top sweater button is closed. In her close-up it's open, but then it's closed again. (00:51:05)
Continuity mistake: At the Hotel DuReve, when they first enter their room, Tom jumps onto and off the bed. Doing so, he causes the small white lace pillow to slip down on the bed, but when she jumps onto the bed after him, in the close-up the lace pillow is upright again. Then it's down in the next shot and upright in the next. The brown wood chair changes position in these shots too. (00:38:10)
Continuity mistake: When Sarah and Tom are speaking with Henri at the Hotel DuReve and he hands them the gift bottle of cognac from Peter. In the next few shots her pink scarf and his left red draw string change positions in every camera angle. (00:37:30)
Continuity mistake: In Tom's hotel room, Wendy kicks Tom in the face and he goes down on the floor. In this shot the red velvet pillow on the bed is decorative side down and Tom's duffel is seen. In the next shot the red velvet pillow is decorative side up and the duffel is positioned differently. (01:15:10)
Continuity mistake: Tom and Wendy fall onto the bed in Tom's hotel room. First his head is off the green and gold decorative silk pillow, but next shot his head is lying in the center of that pillow. In the shot behind Wendy, the pillow lays decorative side down, but in the following shot his head is in the center of the decorative side. When he sits up, the decorative side is underneath again. When Wendy leaves the decorative pillow is gone entirely. (01:14:45)
Continuity mistake: Tom and Wendy stand in the hallway outside of Tom's room in the Hotel Gianna. In the first shot he stands to the right of the door, with his back to the elevator. However in the next shot, he stands to the left of the door with his back towards the other rooms. (01:14:25)
Continuity mistake: Tom asks Fredo, the maitre d' of the Hotel Gianna, about Sarah's whereabouts. When the man throws down Tom's key, a view of the lobby desk is seen. When Tom places the money down on the reservations book, in this close-up the desk is arranged differently. (01:11:20)
Continuity mistake: Tom jumps out of the bathroom window of the Caffe [sic] America. In the close-up he lands one foot in a wood crate and behind him there is another wood crate with eggplants. Yet in the next shot, the wood crate he lands in is smashed differently, there is another crate in front with lettuce and the wood crate with eggplant behind him is gone. (01:10:45)
Continuity mistake: At Bernardo's mansion, Peter and Sarah walk up the stairs with Bernardo as he holds Sarah's upper arm. When Bernardo asks, "Your honeymoon?" the strap of her purse is under Bernardo's hand at her elbow. He does not release his grip of her arm and in the next shot as he says, "But she's so young to be married," the strap is now on her shoulder. (01:09:05)
Continuity mistake: When Sarah and Tom are in the jail, Tom has a red plaid blanket around his shoulders. Between the shot outside the cell bars and the shot inside the cell bars, the position of the plaid changes. (01:19:25)
Continuity mistake: Tom runs into the hotel room singing, "Dodgers won..." and he drops his jacket in a heap on top of the tour guide book lying on the chair. When he runs to Sarah at the door, the jacket lies differently. Then when he takes his jacket to get some air, the jacket is lying very neatly across the chair and the book is in a different position. (01:01:05 - 01:05:10)
Continuity mistake: On the airplane going back home, Sarah has a pillow behind her head. In the overhead shot the pillow is straight, then in the close-up the pillow is crooked, and in the next overhead shot the pillow is straight again. (01:21:20)
Continuity mistake: After Sarah throws the ash tray at Tom, the sound of him falling hard is heard as the camera is on Sarah. She then says, "I'm sorry" and runs to him, as she continues to look straight ahead where he was standing before we heard him fall, instead of looking down at the floor where he fell. (01:17:30)
Continuity mistake: Sarah and Tom crash through the wall at the Pensione and the plaster breaks up a particular way. In the next shot from the neighboring room the plaster stays more solid and the rest breaks up a different way. (00:52:00)
