13 Going On 30

13 Going On 30 (2004)

44 mistakes

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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 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: 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 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: In the basement, when Tom-Tom tells Matt that Jenna is in the closet waiting for him, the TV is angled facing towards the stairs. However, when Jenna looks out from the closet to see everyone gone, the TV is facing the closet. (00:11:20)

Super Grover

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: In her apartment, when Jenna walks into the hallway as she hears the musical tone of her cell phone, the position of her white coat differs in the wide shot and close-up and then when she runs out of her apartment as well. (00:15:50)

Super Grover

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: When Matt and Jenna are in Jenna's apartment, from a back shot Jenna sips her Diet Coke then puts it down, and her hand is still on the can. Then when it cuts to a closeup of Jenna her hand is now on the yearbook. (00:28:35)

Hamster

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.

Continuity mistake: When Jenna is having her picture taken at the school when she is telling the photographer her name is Jenna her hair is in front of her ears but when you see the picture her hair is behind her.

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)

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Continuity mistake: When Jenna sees herself in the mirror and topples backward over the shelf, there's a tall floor lamp directly behind the striped armchair with an ottoman. As Jenna gets to her feet, we also see there's nothing beside the armchair's arm. When Jenna's new appearance shocks her and she whispers, "What is happening?" the floor lamp has vanished, and now a small table with a plant appears beside the armchair. (00:14:20)

Super Grover

Factual error: When Jenna looks at her mail, her address is 61 5th Ave, 7C, NY, NY. When she goes outside, you can see, she lives at 51 5th Ave, NY, NY. (00:15:20 - 00:16:57)

Continuity mistake: When Jenna gets out of the car to go to her job for the first time, her hair/makeup is a little frazzled. As she and her friend talk outside the building, her hair becomes neater and skin a little darker from one shot to the next.

Jenna: What happened?
Matt: I don't know. I can pretty much peg it to your 13th birthday party, when you were in the closet playing that game. Spin the Rapist?
Jenna: Seven Minutes in Heaven.

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Trivia: Wrong places at the wrong times - the man who is hit by Jenna's thrown shrimp tail early in the party is the same one whose drink receives her dropped pina colado fruit.

scwilliam

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Question: When Jenna has turned 30 and is going to the magazine party she has a dress on then asks her 13 year old neighbour if she can see her underwear to which the girl replies something like "I think that's the point." They then smile and laugh to themselves. Could anyone explain this joke?

Answer: Jenna asked the girl, "Can you tell I'm wearing underwear? Because I totally am". This is because when she was 13 just a day before, she was wearing big underwear. Now she's wearing a thong, which wouldn't be visible when wearing a dress.

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