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• Continuity: When Jenna is on the street, about to go to Matt's apartment before the wedding, her hair is parted on the right. When she is at the apartment, her part is on the left.
  
  
• Continuity: When Jenna is getting ready for the party, she puts a lot of make-up on. In the next shot, her makeup is toned down significantly.
  
  
• Continuity: When Jenna realizes there is a man in her bathroom, she grabs the umbrella and undoes the strap around it. In the next shot, the strap is attached again. In the shot when she opens in front of him, it's unattached.
  
  

• Continuity: The picture of J-Lo on the wall and it changes from perfectly straight to very crooked between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When Matt is taking their picture at the end, his hand position on the camera changes between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When Matt gives the Dream House back to Jenna, a small amount of wishing dust is stuck to the side wall. When Jenna sits in the backyard and the wind starts blowing, a lot of wishing dust is on the roof.
  
  
• Continuity: When Jenna and Lucy are talking on the street before going up to the office for the first time, the people walking by behind them jump around between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: During the "Thriller" dance, Matt stops dancing in the long shot. In the close-up, at the distance shot, he's still dancing, then stops.
  
  
• Continuity: Lucy starts to open her purse in front of the bar. When she turns, her purse is still under her arm.
  
  
• Continuity: While Jenna prepares for her presentation and when she confronts Lucy in her room, her hair is quite loose and parted in the middle. When Jenna comes out of the Poise building after Lucy tells her that she has found envelopes of Sparkle amongst her stuff, her hair is tightly parted on her right side. When she rides Chris Grady's cab, her hair is fairly loose and parted in the middle again.
  
  
• Continuity: When Jenna hears the cell phone ring for the first time in her apartment and goes to investigate, we see a sofa table with some umbrellas attached, and a jacket draped over a box with the box visible to the left. Then, as she looks back, the box has changed position and is more to the right, buried beneath the jacket.
  
  
• Continuity: When Jenna and Lucy are standing outside the club where they have just had drinks, Lucy pulls out a cigarette as Jenna is talking to Matt. She is holding it in her right hand and as she says she is going back inside she puts the cigarette in her left hand with her lighter. She turns to walk back in and the cigarette is back in her right hand.
  
  
• Continuity: While at the party to promote Poise Magazine, the level of Jenna's drink changes repeatedly between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: The "six chicks" at Jenna's party give her 7 jackets.
  
  
• Plot holes: When Jenna discovers that Sparkle magazine stole her redesign concept, she walks out of her office. A bus passes by with a sign advertising the new issue of Sparkle, featuring her design, "on newsstands now". There is no way they could have received the design info on one day and re-done, distributed and marketed the magazine by the next day.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: Immediately after Jenna presents her new magazine design, Richard hugs her and tells the group they will present it to corporate "tomorrow morning." His lips clearly say "Friday morning."
  
  
• Anachronisms: When Matt shares his Razzles with Jenna in 1987, the package is blue. In 1987, Razzles packages were white.
  
  
• Anachronisms: At Jenna's 13th birthday party in 1987, they drink Diet Coke from cans with 2003 graphics.
  
  
• Continuity: When Lucy is telling Jenna how to act outside the Poise Magazine building, the same extras walk past more than twice each. Also, there are people walking behind Lucy that we don't see in the close-ups of Jenna, even though they are standing next to each other.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In 1987, young Matt's body pad (to make him look pudgy) is visible when he turns his head to talk to Tom Tom.
  
  
• Continuity: When Jenna whistles for the cab so she can catch Matt before his wedding, she is holding a purse. When she leaves the cab and runs toward the house, her hands are empty.
  
  
• Errors in geography: When Jenna is going home from the city, she takes the Metro North Railroad. When she goes to break up Matt's wedding, she tells the taxi to head towards the George Washington Bridge into New Jersey. Jenna and Matt are next-door neighbors, and the Metro North Railroad goes to Connecticut. To get to New Jersey, she would need to ride NJ Transit.
  
  
• Continuity: When Jenna and her boyfriend get back to his apartment, a basketball is on the couch. In the next shot, when they sit on the couch, the basketball is gone.
  
  
• Continuity: When Richard is talking to Jenna and Lucy at the party, a woman in a blue dress and a man walk behind Richard, in front of the DJ the other side of the room. Several shots later, in a shot of the DJ stand, the couple is still crossing the room to leave.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: After Jenna and Lucy leave the bar, they run into Matt. As Jenna talks to Matt, his earpiece is visible.
  
  
• Boom mic visible: When Jenna gets into the car and tells the naked guy to go away, a boom mic swing's reflection appears briefly in the rear of the car.
  
  
• Continuity: When Jenna throws the paper at Arlene in the meeting, Lucy is drinking from her cup. But in the next shot, when she looks at Jenna, her cup is back on the table without any time to set it back down.
  
  
• Continuity: In the beginning of the movie when Jenna is in the closet, she pulls out the tissues from her shirt, and they land in separate places on the floor. After she pushes Matt out and tells him she hates him, the tissues on the floor change position.
  
  
• Continuity: When Matt comes down the stairs with Jenna's gift, you see the bottom of the box, but then when he puts down the box and lifts it up, there is no bottom.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Jenna gets the umbrella and starts walking towards her bathroom in her apartment, a cameraman is reflected in the mirror.
  
  
• Continuity: Jenna is told that Matt's address is 212 Bank Street. As Jenna walks through the Village to find him, the camera pans up to show her approaching the corner of Bank Street and 4th. She walks on Bank, but turns onto 4th to enter Matt's building.
  
  
• Continuity: When Jenna is at the sleepover with the younger girls, the Milano packet on the right switches from the front of the bag to the back of the bag between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: The scene where Jenna is talking to Matt while sitting at the counter in her home, before the phone rings, there's a Diet Coke can turned to where you can see the Coca-cola logo. The camera switches angles and then back, the Diet Coke can is now completely turned around where you can not see the Coca-Cola logo, but instead the back side of the can.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: At the wedding when Matt takes a picture as he and Jenna kiss, the flash fires on the camera, but the framed photo (presumably the very same, as suggested by the transition in the film) is taken without flash as shown by the contrast in lighting on their faces and the sunlight from behind them.
  
  
• Continuity: When 30-year-old Jenna first visits Matt, he opens the door, and only a chain is visible. After he invites her in, you hear several locks turning he opens the door again.
  
  
• Continuity: Jenna was walking around on the street without her shoes on when she first "wakes up" as an adult, so her feet must have gotten dirty, but when she answers the phone her feet are clean.
  
  
• Anachronisms: Assuming the present-day sequences take place in 2004 (the year of the film's release), then the sequences of Jenna at age 13 would be set in 1987. However, the clothing fashions worn by the kids are years out-of-date and the "current" music they listen to (e.g. Thriller) was released in the early '80s.
  
  

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