Goofs for
Monster's Ball (2001) More at IMDbPro »

• Errors in geography: Throughout the movie there are conflicting references to its being set in Louisiana, Mississippi, or Georgia.
  
  
• Continuity: When Hank resigns from the department of corrections, he puts his badge on the desk. It disappears in the next shot.
  
  
• Continuity: The blood stains on Leticia's shirt change between when she is first seen on the street and later when she is in the hospital.
  
  

• Factual errors: Credits list special thanks to Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Georgia (not Louisiana).
  
  
• Factual errors: Credits list special thanks to the non-existent Kernner fire department, while thanking the City of Kenner.
  
  
• Continuity: During the first love scene, Leticia's panties jump around improbably between shots.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Hank goes to clean up the backseat of his car, two of the cameramen's reflections are visible in the back window of his Ford Crown Victoria.
  
  
• Continuity: The cigarette that Leticia gives Buck disappears and reappears between shots.
  
  
• Anachronisms: While the movie is supposedly set in the early-'90s, a late-'90s/early-'00s Cadillac Escalade can be seen passing through the foreground as Leticia enters the pawn shop.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: Right before Leticia runs out of the house after meeting Buck, there is a shot in which Buck is speaking but his lips are not moving.
  
  
• Continuity: When Leticia is working in the diner she puts the glass top back on the cake stand twice.
  
  
• Continuity: In the hospital Laetitia has two huge blood stains on the left side of her shirt. When she arrives with Hank at her home, the shirt is clean.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): One character says that "Monsters Ball" is a tradition in England, a party held for a convicted killer the night before his/her execution. But this film is set in the 90's, and England abolished the death penalty after the execution of Ruth Ellis on July 12, 1955.
  
  
• Continuity: When Hank approaches Leticia's truck in the driveway, he puts a plastic gasoline can down next to the driveway. After she backs out, the can is gone although Hank has not picked it up.
  
  

• Continuity: SPOILER: In the last scene at the house, it shows three graves, one freshly filled. The last person known to die was Sonny, who appeared to have been buried at a public cemetery with a priest, etc.
  
  

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