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Al Pacino and Keanu Reeves in The Devil's Advocate (1997)

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The Devil's Advocate

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In the nightmare scene, we see Mary's eyes open, she gets up from the couch, then we see her back on the couch and open her eyes again (identical footage). But since this is a nightmare, strange things are possible.

Continuity

When Kevin tries to calm a weeping Mary Ann after she has the nightmare, bright sunlight is streaming through the window. A few moments later, it is cloudy. In the next scene Kevin leaves to find Cullen, and it is snowing.
When Mary Ann and Kevin are arguing in the living room after she runs from the department store, she is wearing lipstick. As they begin to fight, the lipstick disappears. When they begin to kiss, she is wearing lipstick again. As they make love, it disappears. Finally, as Mary Ann tells Kevin to stop, she is wearing a bright coat of lipstick again.
The ring that Lomax places on a shelf appears and disappears.
When Kevin embraces his wife in the churchyard, he swings her around and when kissing her ear, takes her pearl earring into his mouth and then gives it back to her. In the next shot her earring is still clearly visible in place although she has not had time to replace it.
When Barbara's father tries to attack Kevin in the courtroom at the beginning of the film, in the first shot he is stopped only by two security guards, but in the next shot - wider angle - Barbara's attorney can be seen standing and stopping him too, to again be calmly sitting in the next shot.

Factual errors

Pam says she's working on getting Kevin entered into the New York bar, but New York and Florida do not have a reciprocity agreement, meaning Kevin would have to sit for the New York bar exam.
When the Heaths are showing the Lomaxs their new apartment for the first time, Jackie calls it a "Classic 8" after which Mary Ann excitedly says "three bedrooms!" In fact, a Classic 8 has four full-sized bedrooms and a Classic 7 has three full-sized bedrooms (both would include a smaller maid's room).
Then-NY Knicks' General Manager Ernie Grunfeld's name appears in the credits as Ernie "Grunseld."

Incorrectly regarded as goofs

In the nightmare scene, we see Mary's eyes open, she gets up from the couch, then we see her back on the couch and open her eyes again (identical footage). But since this is a nightmare, strange things are possible.
The shadow of some equipment appears in the trailer when Lomax walks down the empty street in New York but was removed from the film.

Revealing mistakes

By the position of the Empire State Building (which is on Milton's left in one wide angle) visible in the far background behind Milton in his close-ups while Milton and Lomax are talking on the rooftop, it's obvious that Milton is not actually standing on the edge during those close-ups.

Miscellaneous

Milton, Eddie and Kevin go to see murder suspect Alex Cullen after he's released on bail, which seems to be the morning after the crime. Kevin claims the police already know about two fingerprints, but the crime lab would not possibly have the print matches back that fast.

Audio/visual unsynchronised

Mary-Ann says "You have to believe me" without moving her lips.
When picking out candidates for the jury, the inquisitor says "You can either stop this shit, or I walk." The guy looks at him and says "Walk." In the next shot, you see his lips move to say "Walk" again, although no sound is heard.
After Kevin fails to save Mary Ann from taking her own life, then rushes in with a nurse to try to save her, Kevin's mother Alice and Pam look along with three other patients who peek into see what's just happened. In the very next shot behind Kevin, the nurse and now deceased Mary Ann, the other patients are absent, with just Alice and Pam that look in.
When Kevin asks the limo driver where Mary Ann went, we hear the driver say: "The Church of Heavenly Hope", but his mouth says something different.

Crew or equipment visible

During the closing credits, when the fireballs are forming, at one point you can see the flamethrower creating them.
Immediately after the boxing match, when Kevin is on the phone with Mary while in the kitchen of the restaurant, you can see the boom mic reflected in the tile wall behind him. It's just over his head, following him as he moves.

Errors in geography

Gainesville is not the small town the movie portrays it to be. It has the main campus for the University of Florida. (There is a University of Florida Gators banner behind the band playing at the bar after Kevin wins his case.)
In the Boxing Match scene "Caesar's Palace" markers can be seen in the corners of the ring when it was supposed to have taken place in Madison Square Garden.

Plot holes

On the night of the party, Milton tells Kevin to come up to his floor. We later learn it is to discuss the Cullen murders. Milton says he "sent Pam downtown to make bail arrangements" for Cullen, and Pam calls shortly thereafter. But between Milton summoning Kevin, and Kevin entering Milton's floor, we see Pam talking casually with a guest at the party while Mary-Ann is frantically looking for Kevin.

Boom mic visible

Reflection of boom mic on tiled wall as Kevin talks to Mary on payphone.

Character error

When Milton and Kevin meet for the first time, Kevin says he worked in the Jacksonville DA (district attorney) office for 5 years. Florida doesn't have district attorneys. It would have been the Jacksonville State Attorney's Office.
Milton claims Pam used to work in the "Brooklyn County" DA's Office. There is no Brooklyn County. Brooklyn is a Borough; its county name is Kings County.

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