When Marlee is sitting at an outdoor cafe with Wendell, Wendell's shirt collar
is repeatedly neatly tucked/sloppily sticking out between shots.
When Fitch is sitting in the bar towards the end of the movie, the amount of drink
in his glass increases between shots after Easter and Marlee leave the bar.
When Nick is scribbling on the jury menu form, rain is seen outside the window.
When he throws the form outside a few minutes later and it's picked up by
Marlee, the rain has stopped and the grass is dry.
In the beginning, a photographer is shooting Nick from a second-floor balcony.
However, the black & white stills produced are shot at street level.
When Rankin Fitch meets the gun company guy who is shooting clay pigeons,
near the end of the conversation, the gun company guy starts to put on his
safety glasses and says "Pull" before he has time to shoot, but in the next shot,
he is fully prepared, and hits the target in the air.
When Fitch meets with the gun company man who is shooting clay discs, near the
end of the conversation the man loads his gun and closes it. In the very next shot it's
broken open then switches back to closed in the shot after that.
In the first scene when the defense and plaintiff first walk into the courtroom, the
defense sets the rigged briefcase on the table as he walks to the table. In the very
next shot they show a close-up of him setting the briefcase in place from
a sittingposition.
The defense is shown positioned closest to the jury throughout the trial. In a
real courtroom, the plaintiff is always closest to the jury, the defense is
always furthest away.
The footage from the video surveillance Nick Easter had set up in his apartment
shows a different replay of what actually happened when he walked in on the
guy spying on his personal effects.
The female bailiff says she "baked these muffins myself", but she is clearly
holding a tray of brownies.
Nick Easter smashes the burglar's windshield, but when he backs up the
windshield is whole again.
As the funds are being received at the Cayman Island Bank, the issuing bank
name and address is filled in as "Cayman Islands Reserve Bank", however the
printout of the transfer has issuing bank name and address as "Bahamian
Reserver Bank" in Nassau, Bahamas.
When Fitch's associate is searching Nick's apartment the first time, he is
shown copying the contents of Nick's computer to an external hard drive. When
the hard drive is examined back at their base of operations, the tech says that
"it's been erased several times, but I'll see what I can recover" (or words to that
effect.) This type of data recovery is only possible using the actual physical hard
drive of interest, not a copy of the data from the drive.
When Fitch is viewing a video of Nick, we see it paused with embedded timecode
paused along with the video. the last two numbers (:39) indicate the frames, not
seconds (you can tell this by the speed at which the numbers run and the fact the
"tens" number never passes 3) when in play mode. Frame rates for NTSC (north
American video) is 30 frames per second, anywhere else in the world it varies,
mostly at 25 frames/sec in most of Europe, but no video is more than
30 frames/sec.
When Rohr has hired Lawrence, he steps in his car. Lawrence is standing next
to the front tire. In the long shot of Rohr pulling out, Lawrence is standing a few
feet back and has turned around.
When Fitch meets the gun company men, a chessboard is shown. The game is
already started (the white Queen and the white King are in wrong start position).
In the next shots, after some seconds, the chessboard shows the chess pieces in
the start position (and the white Queen is finally in the correct square).
When Marlee supposedly jots down her e-mail address for Fitch on the street car,
she uses about 2 or 3 pen strokes, which is barely enough for her to write "@
much less an actual e-mail address.
Rohr initially describes the shooter in the office rampage as a day trader, then
as a broker, then as a day trader again.
When Nick Easter comes down the steps and the old man (Mr Polaski) is cleaning
out the water pump, the pump is clear. Moments later, the pump has
green weed over it.
At the beginning of the film, Nicholas Easter tells Mr. Polanski he should
stop smoking. He is heard coughing but his mouth never moves.
In the final scene at the playground, Marlee's hair is short, straight, and brown.
When Rohr is walking across the street, and sees Marlee and Nick at the
playground, Marlee's hair is longer, curlier, and much darker. Her hair goes
back to short/straight/brown in the next shot.
When Marlee calls Fitch from her cell phone to get his final answer on whether
or not he is willing to pay, she has a black eye. The next time Marlee is shown,
when she is reporting a robbery on her cellphone, her eye is fine.
When Fitch grabs hold of Marlee on the trolley, the check changes from his
left to right hand multiple times.
When Marlee calls Fitch at home and increases her demand to $15 million, he
slams the phone's receiver down. The receiver's cord can be seen not to be
connected to the phone.
When Nick is riding the trolley home, he gets off the trolley and walks by the
trolley barn. He supposedly lives in the French Quarter, but the trolley barn in
New Orleans is off the Garden District. The trolley does not run in
the French Quarter.
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