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• Continuity: The hood of Bruce's car is alternately damaged and undamaged between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: Coffee mugs on the diner table change positions between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bruce Nolan and Jack Baylor are talking in the hallway outside of Jack's office, Bruce's collar changes from inside his jacket to outside of it, then inside again.
  
  

• Continuity: In the diner, the ketchup and mustard bottles on the left next to the old man keep switching positions.
  
  
• Continuity: In the diner, Bruce clearly pours quite a bit of cream into his coffee. In the following shots, the coffee is still black.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Bruce puts both feet on the railing to "pull in" the moon, the background around him shifts from side to side.
  
  
• Continuity: FLIPPED SHOT: Bruce's Hair is parted on his left. When he meets God during the the town riots, his hair is parted on the other side for a split second.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bruce is looking at the pager, his hands are around the screen in the close-up. In the long shots, his hands grip the edge.
  
  
• Continuity: During the cookie scenes, the milk on Bruce's shirt and trousers disappears and reappears.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Bruce is drenched in the rain, his microphone is clearly visible beneath his blue shirt.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Bruce licks his finger and touches his hip, smoke comes out of his hip, but the smoke isn't reflected in the window next to him.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Bruce arrives back at the warehouse to talk to God, who isn't there, a shadow (not Bruce's) is clearly visible in the background.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Bruce is at the chili cook-off and the meteor strikes, the smoke stops rising when Bruce runs toward it.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Bruce and God are talking standing on the water, God bends over and picks up the Rosary beads. You can see fishing line making a V-shaped line in the water going from the beads to the top of the frame.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Bruce and God are standing on the water, you can clearly see the platform Morgan Freeman is standing on.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Bruce is in the car and parts the traffic, the traffic control signal blinks faster while the cars are moving.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Bruce carries the urinating dog outside, there aren't any wet marks on the ground or on the floor where the dog is supposedly going on the chair.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bruce wants all prayers organized into files, file cabinets start filling up the room he is standing in. By the time they last cabinet is put in front of Bruce, the position of his head behind the cabinet changes.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Tony Bennett is singing at the "Blue Palm" restaurant, the piano player's fingers and bass player are clearly not in time with the music.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bruce chokes on the spoon in the diner, he removes it from his mouth with two fingers from both of his hands. When the shot moves to the old man and back to Bruce again, his hands have switched.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Bruce gets out of his car, you can see the black outline of the gun in his hand before he holds it up.
  
  
• Continuity: Bruce sees Clint Eastwood in the mirror and covers it with his hand. In the next shot, he is not holding onto the mirror and walks out.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bruce answers prayers at high speed (at the computer), he puts his coffee mug down on his left. When he answers all prayers "Yes", the mug has disappeared from his left, and he picks it up from his right.
  
  
• Continuity: The morning after Bruce enhances Grace's breasts, he squirts ketchup on his toast. When the camera switches back to him as he gets up, there is no ketchup on the toast.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Bruce is typing answers to the prayer emails, the same prayers appear over and over, when they are supposed to be different prayers. The contents of the prayers do not match the subject lines. For example, one prayer that has "RE: New Car" in the subject line is actually a request to find a lost cat, a prayer that Bruce answered earlier in the scene.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bruce crashes his car and is yelling at God for ignoring him, he faces the screen and says "Answer Me!" The top two buttons of his shirt are unbuttoned. The next shot only one is unbuttoned.
  
  
• Factual errors: Bruce donates blood at the end of the movie. Because he'd recently had a blood transfusion, he wouldn't be eligible to donate blood for 3 months.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Bruce looks at himself in the mirror, Sam enters the room to pee on the couch. The shot changes to Bruce, then back to Sam. On the right side of the screen, you can see the hand of the dog trainer, pointing to where the dog should be looking.
  
  
• Continuity: At Niagara Falls, while talking to the owner of The Maid of the Mist, Bruce shakes his head, which makes his hair messy. The scene cuts to Grace. When it cuts back to Bruce, his hair is parted and neat.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the beginning when they are measuring Buffalo's biggest cookie, the tape measure is clearly not measuring the middle (diameter) of the cookie. The measurement would only be accurate by the diameter size.
  
  
• Continuity: At the end of the movie when Bruce is telling Sammy to pee outside near the tree, Sam appears to be digging a hole at the base of the tree. (The hole is clearly visible.) In the next scene when Bruce brings the flowered chair outside to train Sammy, the hole is gone (though the scene is thought to be just a moment later).
  
  
• Plot holes: In the beginning of the film, Bruce does a news story about the cookie. However, Evan copies his story in front of the same news team when Bruce is at the falls. Therefore, the team would know why Bruce was in shock and also not tell Evan his speech was amazing.
  
  
• Continuity: In the Bakery scene, Bruce is wearing a hairnet. When Bruce spills the milk along the line of kids, his hairnet is gone. When he's about to cut the film, his hairnet is back on.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the DVD version, the pager shows the fictitious number, made to avoid privacy issues. However Bruce reads out the original number.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the scene where Bruce is sent to Niagara Falls to report, he starts by saying that he is reporting from Niagara Falls, New York. He is actually standing on the Canadian side of the Falls, which is obvious from the view.
  
  
• Factual errors: In the scene where Bruce parts the soup, The top level of soup remains constant. If the soup in the central part of the bowl moves to sides, one would expect the soup-level to go up (Total volume of the soup is constant. If base area decreases, height must increase). In the scene it remains just the same.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: (At 28:30) As the file cabinet closes after God thumps it, the draw closes, but oddly the files within don't move along, and the file "Doctor", for example, stays stationary along both shots.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Bruce describes the Polish bakery in his news story as home of the "cream-filled Polski Pierogi". A pierogi is a meat or cheese dumpling, and would be sold at a deli or meat market, not a bakery. The writer probably confused the pierogi with a paczki, which is a fruit or cream-filled fried pastry.
  
  
• Factual errors: The Stanley Cup prop looks nothing like the real Stanley Cup.
  
  
• Continuity: After the meeting, in the hallway outside of Jack's office, when Bruce is saying to Jack "I'm starting to get desperate man", his hands "jump" from open to close position between the cut scene.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Bruce is in the diner, you can see the strings attached to the sugar and creamer when they move into his hands.
  
  
• Errors in geography: Before Bruce "edits" the night sky, many stars can be seen. In downtown Buffalo, it is rare to see any stars at all.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The line: "Imagine what I could do in seven" is incorrect. Genesis says God did it all in 6 days, and on the 7th day he rested.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Grace talks about the AB+ blood type as if it's rare and high in demand. In reality, AB+ is the least in demand because AB+ can accept any other blood type. O- is the most in demand because it can be donated to any other blood type.
  
  
• Errors in geography: When Bruce is outside his home, the speed limit sign says 35 mph. The speed limit in Buffalo, NY, is 30 mph.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Bruce is sent to cover the 156th anniversary of the Maid of the Mist. He is introduced to a woman and is told that her mother went on its maiden voyage. Assuming that her mother was no older that 46 when the woman was born, that would make the woman at least 110 years old, and that is assuming her mother was an infant on that maiden voyage.
  
  
• Factual errors: At the end of the film, Bruce is apparently going to donate blood. However, he has just come out of the hospital having had medical procedures and received the AB blood transfusion seen in the earlier scenes. Individuals who have been hospitalized recently, who have been in surgery recently and who have recently received blood are ineligible to donate blood themselves.
  
  
• Factual errors: Grace is prompted to drive to the party when the dog throws her the car keys. However, the key is a Ford key, and her vehicle is a Chevy Blazer.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the apocalyptic news report, "Prophecy" is misspelled "Prophesy".
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Bruce changes the teleprompter as Evan is reading it, Evan says "and my tiny little nipples went to France," yet the teleprompter clearly reads "and my little tiny nipples went to France."
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the Stanley Cup, it is announced that the Sabres have "won their first championship in 22 years." This would have been their first championship, ever.
  
  
• Continuity: At the end, when Grace is hugging Bruce in the hospital bed, and Bruce notices he has the beads in his hands, Grace's eyes open and she mouths inaudible words, but in the next shot, her eyes are closed again.
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: At the very end of the movie, Jack Jozefson morphs into Morgan Freeman. During the morph, the 'FRANKIES' sign behind him is garbled into 'NKINKIES.'
  
  

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