Continuity mistake: In the scene where Loretta goes to the brother's apartment, cooks him a rare steak & they are sitting at the table talking, the label on the bottle of J&B changes direction from shot to shot without being touched.
Continuity mistake: In the scene towards the end of the movie, when Rose gets the door to let in Ronnie, her hair is messy. When she returns her hair is neat.
Continuity mistake: At the family meal (minus Loretta), Loretta's father asks for the wine. When Rita passes it to Cosmo his left hand reaches into the shot to take the carafe, but when the shot changes he is shown receiving it in his right hand, and Rita's grasp changes as well. (00:41:00)
Continuity mistake: In the scene where Cher is sitting at the kitchen table, talking to her father and drinking Spumante, the level in the champagne glasses is different every time the camera angle changes.
Continuity mistake: Loretta at one point in the movie gets a make-over which includes getting her hair coloured to cover up the grey. In several scenes before she gets her hair coloured Loretta's grey hairs are missing - when Loretta goes to meet Ronnie (Nicholas Cage) for the first time at the bakery, Loretta doesn't have any grey hair.
Continuity mistake: In the last scene, when they are all sitting at the table, Cosmo has a pair of glasses on, when they pan back to him, he's wearing a slightly different pair. (01:29:15)
Continuity mistake: There is a scene in which Johnnie comes from the airport and visits the house where Loretta lives. The mother opens the door for him, but no-one closes the door. After a while the father enters and the door's closed.
Continuity mistake: While Nicholas Cage is enjoying Cher's steak, at one point in the scene his elbow is up on the table for the shots from the front, but his forearm is resting on the edge of the table for the shots from behind - the camera switches between these two views several times.
Visible crew/equipment: Loretta calls for Ronny at the bakery, and when he picks up the phone then promptly hangs up on her, the dark protruding outline of the microphone wire is visible at his right side. It happens again when Loretta visits the bakery and Ronny tells her Johnny took his life from him. Additionally, later when Ronny and Loretta spot each other at the fountain in the Lincoln Center Plaza, there appears to be an actor's mark at Ronny's feet. (00:25:00 - 00:27:05)
Factual error: When Loretta and Johnny leave the restaurant in Brooklyn and drive to JFK there is the long car ride scene through the Midtown Tunnel. There is no tunnel between Brooklyn and JFK.
Continuity mistake: When Loretta takes Johnny to the airport, she's driving his Oldsmobile with the "Ninety-Eight" emblem missing from the side of the car, but when Loretta pulls into the lot with Mr. Johnny's car, the emblem is attached to the Olds. (00:09:00 - 00:12:25)
Continuity mistake: At the end, while Cosmo pours the Mumm champagne into the two flutes in the closeup, Loretta wears the ring on her middle finger, but it cuts to the wide shot and the ring has suddenly switched to Loretta's ring finger. (01:36:55)
Continuity mistake: After Loretta slaps Ronnie, and she's getting ready to leave she goes into the bathroom and clips all of her hair back into a ponytail. She walks out of the bathroom and around the corner into the hallway, the shot changes, and suddenly only part of her hair is in the ponytail and there are a lot of loose strands.
Answer: The laugh does seem out of place because it sounds more like kids than the ladies at the salon. But it didn't sound like the same laugh to me. But it does sound like the same person recorded both laughs. It also seems like the kid's line was added after filming the shot. So it wouldn't surprise me if an adult (perhaps one of the production sound mixers) recorded a couple different lines and laughs in a pretend kid's voice. Then one of those laughs was added.
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