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Sleepless in Seattle (1993)

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• Continuity: Scenes from a single viewing of An Affair to Remember (1957) are out of order.
  
  
• Continuity: Annie's hand that picks up the popcorn while watching the video.
  
  
• Factual errors: A trip in a small boat from Lake Union to Puget Sound's Alki Beach would take considerably longer than suggested in the film.
  
  

• Continuity: Annie's arms when she visits her professor brother.
  
  
• Continuity: On the Empire State Building, Annie's scarf is longer after she picks up the backpack.
  
  
• Factual errors: On Valentine's Day, the top of the Empire State Building would be lit up in red.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: West Coast broadcasts of the New Year's ball drop at Times Square in New York are delayed 3 hours to midnight Pacific Time.
  
  
• Continuity: Walter drinks a half glass of water at the Xmas party, but seconds later the glass is full again.
  
  
• Boom mic visible: A boom mike shows in Walter's car window as he walks toward Annie.
  
  
• Continuity: On Valentine's Day in New York, while Annie and Walter are having dinner, the sky is getting dark. Then, it is lighter when Sam is leaving the airport. It is darker again when Jonah is shown on top of the Empire State Building.
  
  
• Continuity: The clasp on Annie's necklace during Valentine's Day dinner with Walter.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: Sound and vision for the fireworks are simultaneous and should not be.
  
  
• Continuity: Jessica merely hits random keys on the keyboard when typing up Jonah's order for a flight to New York, yet what she types comes up on screen perfectly, without any errors.
  
  
• Continuity: When Annie goes into the closet with the phone the broom changes places.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Walter finds Annie in the broom closet she claims the caller on the radio show was from Duluth and asks him where that is. Walter replies "North Dakota." Duluth is in Minnesota.
  
  
• Continuity: The Kleenex close to the typewriter changes while Annie is sitting in the sofa. The Snapple bottle also changes.
  
  
• Continuity: The sugar-cube tower Sam is building in the restaurant changes shape between shots.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: The camera is reflected in the shop window when Walter and Annie see the globe, circled with red hearts, in the window display.
  
  
• Factual errors: While Annie and Walter are standing in front of the display window at Tiffany's, the globe in the display window is not turning in the proper direction.
  
  
• Errors in geography: When Annie and Walter are getting out of their cars at her parents' home, they are supposed to be in Baltimore. However, a street sign visible behind Annie indicates they are actually in Seattle's Queen Anne neighborhood.
  
  
• Continuity: While Sam and Jonah are on phone with Dr. Marsha Fieldstone they sit on a bench. Sam's hand jumps from between his legs to on his right leg between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: At Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Annie is walking up a jetway that is not connected to anything; there is no airplane at the gate.
  
  
• Continuity: When Annie and Walter are having dinner at the end of the movie, the champagne goes from bubbly to flat back to bubbly.
  
  
• Continuity: At the end of the movie, Annie finds the backpack that Jonah left behind on the Empire State Building's observation deck. She is holding it when Sam and Jonah return and introduce themselves. But when the three of them leave, no one is carrying the backpack.
  
  

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