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When Harry Met Sally... (1989) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: Harry says, "I'll roll down the window," but the window alternately appears open and closed.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When driving through Chicago on the way to New York in the 1970s, a 1980s model Chevy Cavalier is visible.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Harry, Sally, Jess, and Marie are walking down the street after their dinner, they are all dressed in coats, and Sally is even drawing herself together and raising her shoulders as if from the cold. However, you can see trees with big, lush greenery in the background.
  
  

• Continuity: When Harry and Sally are in the diner and discussing whether women can fake orgasms, Sally's sandwich changes shape between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: The pictures that Sally drew for "Baby Talk" change during the game.
  
  
• Continuity: When Harry and Sally are hugging after the fight at Jess and Marie's, their arms are in one position from the front and another from the back.
  
  
• Continuity: The first time Harry and Sally stop at a diner (on the way from Chicago to New York), Sally opens the menu, but on the next shot, she opens it again. Her hands are in different positions depending on the camera angle for most of the sequence.
  
  
• Continuity: Leaving the diner in 1977, Sally pulls the door with her right hand. From the outside, she opens the door with her left hand.
  
  
• Continuity: At the final New Year's Eve party Sally's lipstick disappears and reappears between shots.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: At the New Year's Eve party at end of the film when Harry is telling Sally all the things he loves about her, people in the background are still seen dancing even though the music has stopped and you hear the crowd counting down to midnight.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Near the end, when Sally is typing on her computer, apparently she is typing the longest word in the history of modern language, because her fingers never touch the "space" bar.
  
  
• Continuity: At the football game, some hair on Jess' head goes from up to down several times between shots of him, Harry, and the two of them.
  
  
• Continuity: When Harry, Sally, Marie and Jess are at dinner during the blind date, Marie's drink often jumps from her hand to the table between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When Harry and Sally are in the diner talking about whether the women have a good time in bed with him, the bite mark in Sally's sandwich keeps moving from being near the side, to the centre, and back to the side.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When Harry and Sally enter the diner in 1977, the credit card sticker on the door reads MasterCard. At the time, the company was still known as MasterCharge and the current name was adopted only in 1979.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When Harry is dropped off in New York's Washington Square in 1977 the street signs are green and white. In 1977 the street signs in New York were still gold and black.
  
  
• Continuity: When Harry and Sally first set off to New York, Harry is eating grapes. He goes to spit out the pip and the window is shut, so he rolls it down, but in the shot from the outside of the car, the passenger window is up.
  
  
• Errors in geography: When Harry and Sally are shown leaving Chicago, they are shown driving south on Lake Shore Drive from the north side of Chicago toward downtown even though the University of Chicago is on the south side of the city.
  
  
• Continuity: In 1977, when Harry and Sally enter the diner and also while they eat, Sally's hair is limp and untidy. When Sally is tallying the bill, it is neat freshly styled. When they go outdoors, her hair is untidy again.
  
  
• Continuity: At the very beginning of their 1977 road trip, the lock on Sally's door changes back and forth between being locked and unlocked even though she never touches it.
  
  
• Anachronisms: There were no bollards to block traffic under the Washington Square arch in 1977, as depicted in the drop off scene.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Sally tells Marie that "Harry doesn't even like sweets," but on New Year's Eve, Harry says how great Mallowmars are.
  
  
• Continuity: At the diner in 1977, Sally's clothing alternates between shorts and slacks as she exits the car, enters the diner, and sits down.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: After Harry and Sally have sex, Sally is getting up for some water and is supposed to be naked, however as she stands to put on her robe, you can see her night gown around her legs, which must be tied up around her neck under her hair.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Harry and Sally are on the plane having the conversation about being held after sex, the camera is viewing Sally from Harry's perspective, and she says, "I don't have a problem." The camera then cuts to a view of Harry and Sally from the front, and Sally mouths the word "problem" again, although there is no sound.
  
  

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