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Marley & Me (2008) More at IMDbPro »

• Anachronisms: Relatively early in the film, when the time frame of the story is still in the early 1990's, John Grogran (Owen Wilson) mentions taking a trip to Disney World and a current day Walt Disney World sign is shown.
  
  
• Continuity: In one scene they have two cars a Honda and another car. But in one shot, instead of the Honda in the driveway there is a Volvo. Then in the next shot it is back with the Honda and the Volvo doesn't appear till a couple of scenes later.
  
  
• Continuity: When John first brings puppy Marley home, Marley's collar suddenly appears as John picks him up to take him from the car.
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: When Debbie the dogsitter is startled by Marley in the shower, the hem of her body suit is visible pressed against the shower curtain.
  
  
• Continuity: This goof is also in the trailer. When Marley is being taken to the vet, he is trying to get out of the car. He starts walking and his hind legs are in the car but in the next scene they are outside the car. They are then in the car and back out again.
  
  
• Factual errors: About two-thirds of the way through the picture, West Palm Beach Police show up at the beach, responding to the dog pooping in the water. Only thing is, there isn't a beach in West Palm, the beaches are all in Palm Beach. The call would have to have been responded to, if at all, by the Palm Beach Police.
  
  
• Continuity: When Owen Wilson gets a cup from the cabinet, the cabinet is open but in the next shot it's closed.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene where the kids get off the school bus, at first you see two cars in the driveway, but in the next shot looking at the house there is only one car.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When the main characters are walking down the beach and are shown from in front, you can see the stirred up sand from dragging the camera along. When the shot changes to behind, this is not visible, nor when they are shown from the side. These three viewpoints keep rotating, making the trail appear and disappear repeatedly.
  
  
• Continuity: The first outside shot of Debbie the dog sitters car shows a burgundy older model Volkswagen Cabriolet. When the car is shown through the window in the next shot it is now a newer model Volkswagen Cabriolet and a brighter color red.
  
  
• Continuity: When the 'clearance puppy' is in the car on his way to home, he doesn't have a collar. However, when they reach home, he does. Again, at night, when Marley cries and howls till John takes him to his room, he (Marley) isn't wearing a collar.
  
  
• Continuity: The height of the window in the passengers side door changes from shot to shot when Marley tries to get out of it on the way to the dog school.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When Grogan is walking along the street and his editor is advising him on buying a present for his recently pregnant wife, the cars in the background are a modern Mercedes and Toyota Camry.
  
  
• Continuity: When John and Sebastian are taking about Sebastian going to Columbia, John has his bag over his shoulder and removes it. The editor comes out and tells John he has to cover a methane leak, and he has the bag is on his shoulder and removes it again.
  
  
• Anachronisms: Early in the film, while still set in 90's, when Aniston's character is leaving and they are at the airport, a Nissan Murano is clearly visible in the background. The Murano was not produced until 2004.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Jenny returns from Gainesville, John picks her up from the airport in what it seems to be a rainy day. Even though the water is pouring on their car, the men walking in the distance are obviously not rained upon and the asphalt is dry.
  
  
• Factual errors: Set in the early 90s in the beginning, the scene where Owen Wilson drops Jennifer off at the airport, on the sign in the background that lists the location of airlines, you can clearly see Airtran. In the early 90s, Airtran was still called Valuejet. It didn't become Airtran until 1998.
  
  
• Anachronisms: Set in the early 90s in the beginning, the scene before John drops Jenny off at the airport, you can see an American Airlines Boeing 737-800 flying over the airport. The Boeing 737-800 was not operated by AA until 1999.
  
  
• Continuity: When Jennifer Anniston first chases Marley as he dashes out the house her outfit changes during the chase; later, after the birth of their first child she is seen holding what appears to be a one- or two-year-old; soon after he is a baby again.
  
  
• Continuity: (At 1:38:55) The position and direction of the dog collar changes from one side to another. At first the direction of the buckle is clockwise and after a while the direction of buckle is anti-clockwise.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): After Owen picks up Jen from the airport and Marley destroys the garage, Jen is petting Marley and calls him Miley not Marley.
  
  
• Anachronisms: At about an hour and a minute into the movie when John gets the newspaper from the drive and reads Sebastian's article on the drug war in Columbia; if you hit pause on the newspaper, you find the date to be April 5, 2001. However, the article is about Columbia requesting more funding for the war on drugs and on the second column there is a quote from "President Clinton." President Clinton had already been out of office for almost three months on April 5, 2001 and George W. Bush was president.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the first scene in the their house, Jennifer Aniston is reading Owen Wilson's column, and there is an ad on the back page of the newspaper for an appliance store, where the word discount is misspelled as "diccount".
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Josh and Jenny first go to look at puppies, the breeder tells them that they'll have to wait three weeks until the puppies are weaned. This would put the pups at about four or five weeks old, when they should weigh about 4 pounds. However, the size of the puppies used in the scene puts them closer to 10 or 12 weeks of age.
  
  

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