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• Boom mic visible: When Mike is on the phone talking to his ex-girlfriend.
  
  
• Continuity: The food and orange juice on the table during the diner scene.
  
  
• Continuity: During the diner scene when Trent jumps up on the table, Trent can be seen in the reflection behind Mike taking his shirt off. When we cut back to Trent he hasn't taken it off yet.
  
  

• Continuity: When Rob is talking to Mike, he crosses his legs, but in the next shot his legs are spread apart.
  
  
• Continuity: When Mike escorts Lorraine to her car, he points to a Harley Davidson motorcycle behind him. As she drives away, it's gone.
  
  
• Continuity: The hand that holds the syrup during the dinner scene.
  
  
• Continuity: During the Rob/Mike apartment scene, in an over the shoulder shot (after he talks about the pain hurting less each day) Rob brings his hand up to his chin, but then in the next shot, his hands are on his lap.
  
  
• Continuity: Trent's hand when "vibing" the woman across the diner.
  
  
• Continuity: Mike's double-downed bet is visible before he places it.
  
  
• Continuity: Mike's arm as he is givin the "Manifest Destiny" speech.
  
  
• Continuity: Trent's menu during the Las Vegas breakfast scene.
  
  
• Continuity: In the first scene, Mike's answering machine disappears after he listens to his messages and then calls Trent. And later his base disappears
  
  
• Continuity: The video hockey game's score goes up and down throughout the scene.
  
  
• Boom mic visible: Boom mic visible at bottom of screen when Mike and Rob are talking at the party in the Hills.
  
  
• Continuity: During the breakfast scene, cigars and ashtray disappear during the "Age of Enlightenment" lines and reappear after the "Hang on, Voltaire" line.
  
  
• Boom mic visible: In non-widescreen versions of the film, the shadow of the boom mic is visible during the desert road scene (Trent in the foreground, Mike sitting in the car), in the lower left-hand corner.
  
  
• Continuity: In the beginning when Mike is on the phone with Trent, the answering machine disappears, then the phone base.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: As Mike, Trent, and Sue enter the Derby through the back staircase, the camera crew is reflected in the shiny light green wall, and the crew's shadow falls on Sue's back.
  
  
• Continuity: While Trent tells the story of his audition, Mike and "the Dorothy girl" are holding hands, but not in her close-ups.
  
  
• Continuity: The position of Mike's tie at the blackjack table.
  
  
• Continuity: Lorraine's card moves on Mike's wall calendar between shots.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Charles first meets up with Mike and Rob in the bar, you can see Mike mouthing the line "Deep Space Nine" at the same time Charles say it.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Mike is sitting up against the wall, he casts a shadow towards the window (which is the dominant light source).
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Mike is holding the wheel while Trent is changing into his suit in the car, a shot of the car swerving from the front reveals the driver's right and left hand on the wheel making it swerve.
  
  
• Continuity: At the very end when Trent is flirting with the lady across the diner, the napkin disappears and reappears in his hands between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When Sue leaves Trent to finish up the pep talk with Mike at the Dresden, as Mike walks away, Rob is seen sitting in the background, in a chair at a different table. When we cut back to the guys at the table, Rob is back where he was originally sitting, as if he never moved.
  
  
• Continuity: At the $100 minimum bet table in the casino, the cards disappear from the dealer's hands when he counts Mike's money.
  
  
• Factual errors: They say they are playing NHL 94 and that this is the one where you can make the opponent's head bleed, but this was in NHLPA 93 and not in the 94 version.
  
  
• Factual errors: Although the guys all lament the fact that there is no fighting in the version of video hockey they are playing, that version is NHLPA '93, which did, in fact, have fighting (as well as being able to make someone's head bleed). Fighting was not removed from the series until NHL '94.
  
  
• Continuity: When Trent and Sue are playing hockey, Trent does his own commentary before scoring. He say's that #27 Jeremy Roenick scores and was assisted by #7 Chris Cheleos. But after they go into the instant reply the game shows that #27 Jeremy Roenick scored, with an assist by #28 Steve Larmer.
  
  
• Continuity: In the Rob/Mike apartment scene, we see Rob with a salami roll and a knife. During the conversation, the salami roll and knife change hands and disappear between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When Mike buzzes Rob up to his apartment, he picks up the phone handset from the floor next to him. But only a minute earlier the handset was on the phone base unit on the desk, and there is nothing to show how the handset got from the desk to the floor.
  
  
• Continuity: When Mike is dealt the eleven at the blackjack table, you can see two chips in his betting circle before he ever decided to double down.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: When Mike buys $300 in chips at the casino, the dealer counts the bills and hands him three black $100 chips. They are identical to standard poker tournament chips used in most casinos around the country and clearly say "No Cash Value" on them.
  
  
• Continuity: When they stop leaving Vegas on the highway and Trent is relieving himself, his car is red. Later when they all leave to head out to the party, his car is navy blue/black.
  
  
• Continuity: Mike wakes up clean shaven.
  
  
• Continuity: When Mike is looking at Lorraine across the bar towards the end, her drink changes back and forth from a dry martini to what appears to be a cosmopolitan between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: Mikes pants are hanging off the right side of his desk. When Rob walks into Mikes apartment his pants have moved to the left side.
  
  
• Continuity: When Trent looks at the "lower stakes tables" his head is already looking in the other tables direction and then he's seen turning his head again. Throughout the seen there are other more subtle head position flaws.
  
  
• Continuity: In the trailer, several cuts showing Mike and Dorothy Girl holding hands are not fluent. The most noticeable is when Dorothy girl takes a drink with her left hand and then suddenly back in Mike's hand left hand.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the trailer Trent says the part he was auditioning for was called "Brother". Then he says the casting director said "Trent when you walked in the room, I didn't see Trent Walker come in here, I saw Big Brother come in here." Then he says the director said "I think you're a little old for the part of Brother."
  
  
• Continuity: At the blackjack table, the position of Mike's hand (5 of hearts 6 of hearts) keeps changing from higher up on the table to lower on the table and then back higher again between shots. You can notice this by the position of the lettering on the table felt relative to where the cards lay.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: In the first scene in Mike's apartment, the first time he walks into the kitchen, you can see a crew member reflected in the glass of the left kitchen door.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: In the last of the scenes in Mike's apartment, when the camera zooms in on him while standing in the kitchen and talking on the phone, a portion of a light stand can be seen behind him in the final moments of the zoom.
  
  
• Continuity: When Mike changes his $300 for chips the dealer starts placing the money down with his left hand with the pile of twenties and cards in his right hand. When the scene cuts, the dealer is then placing the bills down with his right hand.
  
  
• Continuity: When the dealer deals the cards during Mike's hand, he places the cards down with his left hand then it shows the dealer places the cards down with his right hand.
  
  
• Continuity: When the dealer deals Mike his cards, the 6 and the 5 are facing the same direction, but when it cuts back the 5 is slanted.
  
  

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