Other mistake: When Alex shoots the harpoon and the old lady is returning to her apartment, Alex puts back the harpoon on the mantle and the rope of the harpoon is neatly folded back up. He wouldn't have had the time to properly do this by the time she returned.
Duplex (2003)
1 other mistake
Directed by: Danny DeVito
Starring: Drew Barrymore, Ben Stiller, Harvey Fierstein, Eileen Essell
Genres: Comedy
Continuity mistake: After Alex installs the clapping machine, he can't get the TV to turn off while he is laying down, he has to stand up and jump while clapping. However, after Mrs. Connelly figures out how to use it and they are going back and forth, it works perfectly fine while laying down.
Mrs. Connelly: Tell me about yourselves. What do you do Alan?
Alex Rose: Uh, it's Alex.
Nancy Kendricks: Alex is a writer.
Mrs. Connelly: Oh, a writer. I always thought of that as more of a hobby than a real job. I suppose I'm forgetting about Joyce.
Alex Rose: Joyce. James Joyce. Of course. Wonderful writer.
Mrs. Connelly: He died drunk and penniless.
Question: What is the word that Drew Barrymore says to her boss, which she claims means that he'll have it "right away"?
Answer: She says "tickety-boo" - later on he asks for her article and says he wants it "tickety-now" not "tickety-boo".
david barlow