13 Going On 30

13 Going On 30 (2004)

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Continuity mistake: When Jenna is talking to Matt and his fiancee on the street, they leave, and then Lucy turns and starts to walk off, and she has a cigarette in her right hand which she puts it into her left hand. Then when the shot changes the cigarette is back in her right hand. (00:44:20)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Jenna and her boyfriend sit on the sofa, there is a basketball on the sofa which disappears between shots. (00:45:15)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Jenna goes to her boyfriends house, they sit on the sofa and then the boyfriend places two glasses on the table. He then puts his right arm around Jenna, and his left arm lays on his leg. Then when it cuts his left arm is laying on a cushion. (00:45:15)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Matt and Jenna meet at the park before the photo shoot, Jenna hands Matt the envelope. In the shot facing Jenna she holds up the envelope with her left hand, but in the next shot the envelope is in her right hand as Matt takes it from her. (01:02:35)

Super Grover

Continuity mistake: After Lucy's meeting about her new "Poise" design, she storms out frustrated, and whacks a box to the floor causing items such as a few bags to scatter on the floor. Between shots the bags move majorly. (01:10:45)

Hamster

Plot hole: Why would Matt sign over the rights to his pictures with Lucy, when he later tells Jenna that he hasn't believed a word Lucy says since High school? (01:15:00)

Continuity mistake: Towards the end of the film, Mattie hands Jenna the dream house he made for her 13th birthday. There is hardly any "wishing dust" on the roof. However, when she goes outside and sits on her front porch, there is plenty of wishing dust all over the roof of the toy house now.

Continuity mistake: When Jenna and her best friend are outside the office in the beginning of the film, the amount of hair tucked behind her friend's ear varies from shot to shot.

Boobra

Other mistake: Wendy loses her accent and it changes at points, such as when she asks Matt if he's hungry.

Continuity mistake: Outside on the sidewalk, Lucy is giving Jenna a lecture on going into the office for the first time. The same woman in a purple dress walks by 3 times (behind Jenna.)

Continuity mistake: When Jenna first realizes that she is thirty and she walks down the hallway, there is a pile of magazines on the counter with the mirror. Then in the next shot, the pile of magazines isn't there.

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Jenna meets Matt's fiancee Wendy and then introduces them to her boyfriend Alex. As Matt and Wendy are leaving, Alex says "Nice to see you folks" and a second later as Matt and Wendy pass in front of him, he says "Nice to see you folks" again.

Continuity mistake: When Jenna first sees her boyfriend she has the umbrella in her hand. She unhooks the strap on the umbrella, then the shot changes and the umbrella is hooked again, then back to unhooked.

Boobra

Continuity mistake: At the first Poise meeting in the movie, Jenna is given a scone or biscuit at first it is raisinless. In the next shot it is full of raisins.

Continuity mistake: Just as Jenna is calling for a cab that happens to be driven by her old man, Chris Grady, she runs in the street and stops. The scene cuts to the cab slamming on its brakes, and then cuts back to her, but with the same cars sitting in the same spots as before she whistled about 2-3 seconds before.

dizzle

Revealing mistake: When Jenna and Matt are talking in the park and Jenna asks Matt to take pictures for the magazine. Everything is fine except that a girl in the background walking turns and looks directly at the camera and at both actors.

Movieman123

Continuity mistake: When Jenna goes to talk to Matt before he gets married, Matt's tie changes its position around his neck. It changes in the shots going to and from Matt and Jenna.

Continuity mistake: When Jenna and Matt are talking in the park about her hiring him to be the Poise photographer, her hair on the left side of her head changes from being in front of her shoulder to behind her shoulder several times.

Continuity mistake: At first when Lucy and Jenna are at the work party talking to the editor and chief of Sparkle, Jenna's Pina Colada glass is full. However, in the next shot the glass is half full and then the glass goes back to full again.

Continuity mistake: When Jenna asks the DJ in the party of Poise to play "Thriller" he starts dancing. Then, there's a closeup to Jenna and we can see that the DJ is not dancing anymore. In the next shot, he's there, dancing again.

Jenna: Wait, listen to me. I'm 13.
Lucy: Jenna, if you're gonna start lying about your age, I'd go with 27.

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Trivia: When Jenna wakes up as 30, she is in the same apartment the 30-year-old woman in the magazine was in when she was 13.

Movieman123

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Question: After it's all over and the 13 year old Jenna kisses the 13 year old Matt, Jenna said something like, "I gotta show you something." What was it?

Answer: The rest of their lives...Jenna changed the future where she was 30 to a different one where her and Matt live happily ever after.

moviemogul

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