Continuity mistake: When Cameron Diaz is singing and dancing in the first shot she is holding a wine glass. In the second shot, when the camera pulls back, the glass is sitting up by the bottle. There was no break in the sound. (00:33:55)
Continuity mistake: When Cameron Diaz and Jude Law are in bed for the last time, her bra strap changes from being up and hanging down whenever the camera changes.
Continuity mistake: At the end of the film when Cameron Diaz decides to leave the Mercedes and walk back to the cottage, in every shot of the lane leading back toward the cottage, the tyre tracks appear and disappear with each shot.
Continuity mistake: During the dinner with Jack Black, Kate Winslet, and the old guys, the candles on the table are sometimes burned right down, and sometimes have an inch or so remaining, going up and down between shots.
Continuity mistake: When Iris first arrives at Amanda's house and is rushing from room to room, her scarf is wrapped around her neck and tied, then untied, then tied. Also, when she gets out of the taxi, she is not holding a notebook. Yet, when she enters the front door, she is holding a notebook.
Continuity mistake: The morning after Amanda and Graham first spend the night together, as Graham is preparing to depart, he pulls a sports coat over his shirt. Initially he pulls the shirt collar over the coat, in the next shot the collar is under the coat, and in the next the collar is out again.
Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the movie, When Kate Winslet's character is talking to a friend who works in the Daily Telegraph office, this friend's cigarette changes length with different shots.
Continuity mistake: When Cameron Diaz is throwing shoes at Edward Burns at the beginning of the movie, the shoes she has thrown are on the landing in one shot and then disappear in the next.
Continuity mistake: In the scene where Amanda has come downstairs after "never having that much to drink", her leggings are pink. Then it shoots to Graham, and back to Amanda, and her leggings are suddenly a dark brown. This definitely wasn't a trick of the light.
Continuity mistake: When Amanda drives into town, one shot shows her running her left hand through her hair and the next angle shows her right hand.
Answer: Iris only turns on one burner without lighting it. When the Internet tone for getting a message sounds, Iris comes to her senses, turns off the unlit burner, opens the window and then answers Amanda's message.
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