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Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds in The Proposal (2009)

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The Proposal

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Continuity

During the scene where Andrew makes Margaret propose to him on the sidewalk, a girl in a green sweater walks past them in the same direction three separate times.
When Andrew and Margaret first go into the immigration office, Mr. Gilbertson is reviewing Margaret's case in a plain manila envelope. When he tells them that he will see them on Monday and tosses the file, it is now a much darker folder.
When Margaret and Andrew are talking outside on the street after first leaving the immigration office you see a FedEx truck in the background behind Andrew on the street. As the scene switches between the two of them it disappears and then instantly reappears.
(at around 1h 01 mins) Andrew is sleeping on the floor on top of a blanket. Several seconds later, that blanket is gone -he is sleeping on the carpet without the blanket.
When Margaret and Andrew first arrive at his home, Margaret pulls Andrew aside during the party by grabbing the front of his jacket. When the scene switches, she is holding onto the sleeve of his jacket.

Factual errors

The eagle shown in the movie was an Australian Wedge-Tailed Eagle, it should have been a Bald Eagle which are actually found in Alaska.
When Andrew and Margaret are speeding at the buoy and Andrew turns the boat hard to the left, Margaret falls out of the boat to the left. If the boat is turned hard to the left, the natural reaction would have been for Margaret to be thrown to the right. It's Newton's Third Law of Motion.
The red buoy is number 27. Actually red buoys are even numbers, not odd numbers.
Margaret is a Canadian citizen and presumably on a H1-B visa to allow to work in the US. Since she is marrying a US citizen she'd have to file for Adjustment of Status to become a Permanent Resident. This process takes several months, far longer than the time frame depicted in the movie.
The Sitka Rocky Gutierrez Airport sits on an island in the Sitka Sound not inland as depicted in the movie.

Incorrectly regarded as goofs

Granny Annie, who is celebrating her 90th birthday says she wore the wedding dress when she was pregnant, but also says her mother made the dress in 1929. Granny would have been ten years old in 1929, however, Granny never says that she was the first one to wear the dress.
After Andrew and Margret bump into each other and after they've covered themselves up, Andrew says 'nice tattoo by the way'. However, there is no way he could have seen it, as he never sees the back of her.

However, it's possible, even likely, that Andrew was just making a guess that she had a tattoo and waiting to see what Margaret would reply. Also, earlier when Andrew was sharing things he knew about Margaret, he said he was pretty sure she had a tattoo because she had scheduled then canceled a tattoo-removal appointment.

Revealing mistakes

When Andrew is running with the Starbucks lattes in the beginning of the film water can be seen spilling out of one of the cups as he enters the building.
As Margaret gets down in her knees to propose Andrew, the undersides of her C.L. shoes look spotless despite having walking on the pavement from the building.

Audio/visual unsynchronised

After Andrew announces his engagement to Margaret to the guests, a woman's voice is heard saying, "Let's get some champagne." Later in the same scene, after Andrew and Margaret share their long kiss, the same voice can be heard saying the same line, even though everyone in the shot is already holding a champagne glass with liquid in it.

Errors in geography

A time-lapse scene shows the sun not setting during the night at Sitka. Alaska is almost 1500 miles north to south. While there are places in Alaska, above the Arctic Circle, where the sun doesn't set at night in summer, the sun always sets in Sitka, even in summer (though sometimes quite late, and nautical twilight isn't reached every night).
When Margaret and Andrew are in her office, a view out the window shows the barren trees in the courtyard (flimed at International Place in Boston in late winter/very early spring) but yet the same weekend they are in in Alaska where everything is lush green, even though Alaskan Spring is far behind Boston and NY Spring.
There are no lobster boats in Sitka's harbors.
A Rockport, Massachusetts landmark called "Motif No.1" (a little red shack often portrayed in art) can be seen in the "Sitka, Alaska" scenes.
Early scene - bedtime - shows sun's movement to indicate location within Arctic Circle, but the sun angle in subsequent scenes could only occur at much lower latitudes.

Plot holes

For someone who supposedly can't swim, Margaret is able to easily stay afloat and swim to the buoy after falling out of the boat.

Character error

When Margaret is telling Andrew's family and friends about how they got engaged she says that the two were celebrating their one year anniversary. When the government official comes to Alaska, Andrew tells him that that "six months ago we started dating, we fell in love".
Margaret says she'll go back to Toronto, pronouncing the second T. Unless they are thinking about the proper pronunciation, Torontonians (people from Toronto) pronounce it as Tor-Ron-no.
Sandra Bullock's Canadian character Margaret refers to being in the 'Sixth Grade' at school. Canadians most of time say 'Grade Six'.
When Margaret tries on the wedding dress, it's easily 6 inches too long. Granny says it was hers, but Granny is far shorter than Margaret. Even taking into account a larger chest and Granny being pregnant, there's no way that dress fit Granny.

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