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Fun with Dick and Jane (2005) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: The level of the beer in Dick's glass when he is in the club varies inconsistently between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When Dick runs out of the convenience store from which he "stole" the Icee, the original clerk is sitting behind the counter, but he had been told to step aside by his much larger associate, who is not visible.
  
  
• Continuity: During the breakfast scene, Dick picks the grapes twice.
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: In the bar scene when Dick is standing on the table acting like a puppet, he knocks the same salt or pepper shaker off the table twice.
  
  
• Continuity: While teaching the aerobics class, there is no sweat on Jane's shirt, in the next shot there is, and in the shot after, it's gone.
  
  
• Continuity: When Dick looks at Jane sleeping in bed with her disfigured face, his mouth looks normal, but in the next scene it is lopsided and bruised again.
  
  
• Continuity: When Dick is at the breakfast meeting with Jack, a shot of Jack from Dick's perspective shows the grapes on the table moving, before Dick leans over to take some.
  
  
• Continuity: While speeding away in the rain from the head shop stickup, in long shots Dick's hood is on but in close-up scenes it is off.
  
  
• Continuity: The shot of Jack signing Dick's check in the Grand Cayman Bank is dated in October 2000. When Dick holds the check up, it is dated February 20th. The year is now crossed out.
  
  
• Continuity: When Dick is going to the meeting with Jack, entering the house he is wearing a blue shirt with a white collar. When seated at breakfast he is wearing a burgundy colored shirt.
  
  
• Continuity: The severity of Jane's cosmetic reaction fluctuates during the convenience store "robbery" while she is in the car.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: At the very end of the movie, when Dick and Jane are going for a drive in their car, the cameraman is reflected in Dick's sunglasses after he talks to his friend one car over.
  
  
• Continuity: When drunk in the bar, Dick walks past a table where a lady in a black and white dress seated at a table. In the next shot, she is standing a couple of meters from the table.
  
  
• Continuity: When Dick is escaping from immigration, he runs toward Jane and makes a face in the headlight of the car. In shots before and after this, Jane's headlights are off.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Dick and Jane are in the pot hole they said that the electricity was shut off but when the nanny comes out you can see that the lights are on in the house.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Dick and Jane are in the pot hole they said that the electricity was shut off but then Jane put some ice on her face, where did that ice came from?
  
  
• Factual errors: The car that Garth is driving in is a Bentley and not a Rolls Royce.
  
  
• Factual errors: Stocks can go to zero, but not in mere minutes.
  
  
• Factual errors: A mortgage holder cannot evict a homeowner within 24 hours upon receipt of the Final Notice of Foreclosure. The Notice must be delivered U.S. Certified Mail, Return Receipt Requested. Moreover, Dick and Jane have legal recourse that isn't explored in the movie.
  
  
• Plot holes: It has been illegal in the United States to issue municipal or corporate bearer bonds since 1982. As the movie opens in 2000, McCallister would not be able to convert his company's assets into bearer bonds.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the Grand Cayman Bank scene there is a brief shot of the Client Relations Cooridinator's business card. On it are two numbers, one of them a phone number, and the other for facimile. It should say facsimile.
  
  
• Continuity: While Dick's "colleague" is climbing the stairs, trying to beat Dick for a job interview, he carries a briefcase. By the time he reaches the floor he has a "attaché" type case instead.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The rolls of Brawny paper towels visible in the convenience store have the newer version of the lumberjack figure that first appeared in 2003. The film is set in 2000.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: After leaving the head shop in the rain, the hose making the rain is visible.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The squirt gun is painted in pure black. All toy weapons have an orange marker to indicate (especially to law enforcement) that they are not real deadly weapons.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In a scene in their bedroom, while yelling, Dick calls Jane by Téa (her real name) rather than Jane (her movie name).
  
  
• Continuity: While Dick and Jane are robbing the coffee shop, it seems that all the customers "disappear" after they are finished robbing it. However, for a brief moment, all the customers can be seen moving to hide under the tables. So they never leave, they are just under all the tables.
  
  
• Continuity: When Dick is arrested by the Immigration Officials he is allowed to call Jane, but her son picks up her cell phone at home and says "Hola" which prompts the officials to arrest Dick. However, Jane was actually at the testing facility and her phone later rings and she speaks to Dick. Her phone could not have been with her and at home in subsequent scenes.
  
  
• Continuity: While preparing a meal in the beginning of the movie, Jane is talking to a client on the phone. Billy is on her shoulders, holding the phone to her ear. Dick says "Fire", and Jane turns to tend to a fire on the stove. A second later in front of the stove, Billy is no longer on her shoulders and Jane is holding the phone herself.
  
  
• Plot holes: There is no way the Frank would have known that Dick said that the Coordinator's car had been stolen or that she was even out in the parking lot.
  
  

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