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A Lot Like Love (2005) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: At the Japanese restaurant, the amount of water in their glasses changes very drastically several times between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When Kutcher and Peet's character were spitting water on each other at dinner, the wet spots suddenly vanish as the cameras pan off and back onto them.
  
  
• Continuity: When Oliver has just lost his job and is seen leaving a store with a gray sweater on, a black female extra talking on a cell phone walks past him. Five seconds later the same extra still talking on the phone walks past him again in the same direction.
  
  

• Continuity: When Emily takes Oliver's camera in New York, the camera strap is around Oliver's neck and in the next shot it is off.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When Oliver and Emily are in the bar in New York, Oliver pays with what appears to be two bills that are of the "new style" (larger head shots of the presidents, etc.) although the scene is supposed to take place before this new monetary style was introduced.
  
  
• Continuity: In the Chinese restaurant scene, the girl gets her food and it appears to be a full plate. The camera cuts away and then back to her and seconds later the food is nearly gone.
  
  
• Continuity: At the airport, an SLR camera appears around Oliver's neck between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: During the New Year's Eve party, the location of the large tattoo on the back of Emily's left shoulder changes position by at least a few inches from shot to shot while she's sitting facing the bar and later when she's dancing with Oliver.
  
  
• Continuity: In the beginning of the movie, when Emily visits the churchyard, the trees indicate that it is summer. In the next scene, when she and Oliver walk in New York, it is autumn/winter.
  
  
• Continuity: In the restaurant, when the waitress is putting the food onto the table, there is much greenery on Oliver's dish. But in the shot from behind Oliver's shoulder there is almost no green.
  
  
• Continuity: After leaving the airport, Emily and Oliver are on the train platform. As they're talking, Emily lights a cigarette, takes a few puffs and then drops it and stamps it out. In the next scene she takes another drag on a cigarette without lighting up another, and drops this one and stamps it out.
  
  
• Continuity: The stains of splashed drink on Oliver's shirt when he is in lavatory are not the same as just after splashing when he is in his seat.
  
  
• Continuity: When Oliver and Emily start fooling around on the hood of the car while they are parked in the desert, Emily is wearing sneakers. When they fall off the car, she is barefoot.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the scene where Oliver and Emily are sitting at the bar, Oliver asks the bartender to make their second round a double. The bartender remarks that the shots they are drinking are doubles even though they are clearly drinking out of standard 1.5 ounce shot glasses.
  
  

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