American Wedding
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Continuity mistake: In the beginning, when Michelle goes underneath the table at the restaurant, Jim knocks the phone over to the middle of the table. Later on, when Jim's dad comes in, the phone is back on the end of the table without anyone touching it. (00:01:35 - 00:02:30)

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Continuity mistake: In the first scene of the movie, when Jim and Michelle are in the restaurant, they show Michelle with her napkin folded flat on her lap. Later when Jim tries to get Michelle to find the ring the napkin is back on the table folded in the formal restaurant triangle. (00:00:30 - 00:01:15)

Continuity mistake: When they are looking at flowers and Stifler says "Double lisianthums.", Michelle's mother turns around facing him. When it cuts she is looking in the opposite direction. (00:34:45)

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Continuity mistake: When Stifler is in the linen closet it is completely dark. Finch and friend open the door and the closet is lit. After that they close the door, but the inside of the door remains lit. When the shot changes to the other side, the closet is completely dark again, without a source to light the inside of the door.

RoyT

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Continuity mistake: When they are looking at flowers, Michelle's mother picks up some flowers and says, "Sahara and desert rose for your bridesmaid's bouquet," you can see one of the flowers change color in the following shot. (00:35:10)

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Continuity mistake: When Stifler realizes that Jim is getting married, he has some cream on his face from the cake. In the next shot most of the cream is gone. (00:14:45)

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Continuity mistake: When Stifler drives to the flower shop to get new roses, he sees the shop, slows the car, and comes to a stop while viewed from the side. The next shot is a frontal view of him sitting in the car green-screened, and all is good except that the car is moving again. The following shot then has a side view of the vehicle at a full stop. (01:29:00)

Continuity mistake: Throughout the film, Michelle's hair changes from being long to shorter to longer again. It's easy to spot when she is wearing her hair down.

Continuity mistake: At the end of the bachelor party, the gay man is talking to Michelle's mum and sits down. He then crosses his legs. The camera cuts and he crosses them again. (00:50:30)

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Continuity mistake: During the bachelor party, the cop stripper rips open her top and shoves Michelle's mother's face into her chest. In the next shot the stripper's top is buttoned.

Continuity mistake: When Jim's dad goes to see Michelle (when she's trying to write her vows), her hair and makeup are done for the wedding, and her hair is in a French twist. Later, when Michelle and Jim are having their first dance, her hair is in a curly bun sort of style.

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Visible crew/equipment: Right before the wedding Michelle is talking to Jim's father about her vows. Behind them on a table there is a mirror and you can see the arm of a crew member reflected in it several times. (01:21:35)

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Stifler: Motherfucker.
Finch: [Grinning.] Yes I am.

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Trivia: During the bachelor party, Stifler catches Bear trying on a pink dress. Stifler then calls him "Buffalo Bill" and says to him: "It puts the dress in the drawer and does as it's told." -- a reference to "Silence of the Lambs".

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Question: Jim and Michelle had been dating since the end of Jim's first year of college. Isn't it strange that in all that time he hadn't met Michelle's parents until the day of the engagement party? Jim and Michelle went to the same high school, so her parents must have lived reasonably close by.

Answer: As I remember, there was a scene where someone says, "Michelle's parents are flying in for the wedding."

Answer: They brought the dogs and said they had been cooped up in the cars for hours when Jim's parents asked how their trip was. So it would make sense they drove.

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