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• Continuity: When Loretta tells Cosmo she is getting married, the wine glasses and bottle do not match when the camera cuts from Loretta to Cosmo.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Loretta's grandfather enters the kitchen with dogs in front of him. As he walks through, you can see a leash pulling the dogs from off camera.
  
  
• Continuity: The amount of gray in Loretta's hair varies throughout the movie. In one scene (in a kitchen) the gray in her hair changes every time the camera cuts back to her.
  
  

• Continuity: The size of the piece of steak on Ronnie's fork.
  
  
• Continuity: At the start of the movie, when Johnny and Loretta are in the Italian restaurant, the waiter's sleeves switch back and forth between long sleeves and long sleeves rolled up above the elbow.
  
  
• Factual errors: Loretta says "ti amo" to her father, and he answers "ti amo." "I love you" is the accepted English translation, but "ti amo" refers only to romantic love, and would never be used between father and daughter. They would say "ti voglio bene" instead.
  
  
• Continuity: At the end of the movie, Rose's hairstyle changes between shots as she goes to answer door.
  
  
• Continuity: When Rose and Perry are saying goodnight in the street, his coat lapel is alternately open/closed between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: During Loretta and Ronny's conversation in Ronny's kitchen, Loretta's glass of whiskey switches back and forth between shots, from near the centre of the table to Loretta's hand.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Loretta is talking to Cosmo in the kitchen, we hear and see her tearing at the capsule on the wine bottle. In the next shot, we can still see the bottle and hear the tearing, but Loretta's hand is not there.
  
  
• Boom mic visible: In the final scene, when Rita and Raymond show up, a boom mic is reflected in the glass in the cabinet.
  
  
• Continuity: When Loretta sits down at Ronnie's kitchen table, a cup and saucer are near her right elbow. In the next "wide" shot, they are gone.
  
  
• Continuity: When Ronny and Loretta are talking about love outside Ronny's apartment after seeing La Boheme, Ronny is looking to the side. When they cut away, he's looking up. When they cut back, he's looking to the side again.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: When Johnny visits Rose late at night, she opens the door for him, Johnny walks in, and no one closes the door. Later, the grandfather walks in with his dogs and closes it.
  
  
• Continuity: In the kitchen, Ronny finishes a glass of whiskey. In the next scene, the glass is on the table, with whiskey in it.
  
  
• Continuity: When Loretta joins her mother for breakfast near the end of the movie, she pours sugar into her coffee, stirs, and takes the spoon out. In the next shot, she is stirring the coffee again.
  
  
• Continuity: During the breakfast scene, Cosmo's (Vincent Gardenia) eyeglass frames change from one style to another after his father sits down.
  
  
• Continuity: In the beginning of the movie, as the La Boheme poster is being put into the glass display, the Premeire opening date reads November 15th. But the tone of the movie has already been set as "near Christmas". We have seen a man carrying a Christmas tree, and later we see Christmas cards strung in the dinning room on Cranberry St.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Loretta goes to the liquor store after returning from the airport and orders a bottle of wine. The male clerk says the price is $11.99 and Loretta hands him a bill which he gives his wife who puts it in the cash register. The wife hands the change to her husband who then hands two bills and a coin to Lorreta saying it was the change for her twenty. Even if sales tax was not disclosed to Loretta, two bills and one coin can not possibly make up the correct change for a twenty dollar bill.
  
  
• Errors in geography: Loretta and Jonny leave the Grand Ticino restaurant, seen as being on Hicks St, which is in downtown Brooklyn. Loretta drives Jonny to the airport for his flight to Sicily, traveling via a tunnel. Since it's an international flight, he'd be going to JFK, but there's no need to travel via a tunnel from Brooklyn to JFK.
  
  

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