Goofs

In the middle of the movie the Ghost underlines all instances of "Ruth" in the manuscript. Later in the movie he underlines various words including "Ruth" which now has no underlining.

When the Ghost gets dressed after the night with Ruth he puts on a solid ivory-colored shirt. He then leaves the house in the host's BMW. When he is seen checking the manuscript just outside Emmet's house, he is wearing a patterned (checked) shirt.

The black car chasing The Ghost through the woods changes models. Early in the chase, the car is a Chrysler LHS, circa 2002. When it boards the ferry, it is a Chrysler 300, circa 2009. (It's possible that two sets of bad guys are following the Ghost, but that possibility is not highlighted.)

When the BMW Connected Drive wants to guide him, he stops in front of a motel. In the first shot, there's a cream colored car parking right next to him. After the camera focused on his face, the car has disappeared. It re-appears after another quick change of perspective.

When the Ghost arrives in Edgartown in the borrowed BMW and pulls up in a parking lot, his vehicle is shown blocking another car parked at right angles to his. In the next medium shot, his vehicle is shown a good 6 feet or more further back and not blocking the other vehicle. In the next medium shot, when the Ghost turns his vehicle around to follow the GPS instructions, he starts from the original position blocking the other vehicle.

When CNN is showing how the various markets did, it list the Dow down slightly less than 50, then the S&P also down slightly less than 50. If the S&P was down 50, the Dow would likely have been down between 400 and 500.

The investigation of a UK ex-Prime Minister by the ICC would be precluded by a cooperating British government (which implies, inter alia, the conduct of a British investigation). Article 17 of the Rome Statute states that cases are admissible only when a state's own court system is genuinely unable or unwilling to investigate or prosecute an alleged crime.

A round-trip ferry ticket for a car to Martha's Vineyard is $135, well over the $40 paid by the ghost.

The license plate on the BMW found abandoned on the ferry and also later driven by The Ghost has five alphanumeric characters: 9G8 G7. The combination, number, and order of alphanumeric characters on this plate deviate totally from Massachusetts Department of Transportation regulations.

The Ghost uses a PC when he interviews Lang, but later when he uses the Internet, the search buttons and and the mouse cursor have a "Mac-like" appearance. While the Windows version of Safari has the same buttons and the cursors on a PC can be changed, it is highly unlikely.

Ruth's accent changes randomly between very English posh and slightly Estuary (lower-class). This could be a clue that she has had to 'improve' her accent as she has ascended Lang's ladder and finds it difficult, as English people do, to keep up the pretence, especially at times of emotional stress.

Lang mentions an article in the "London Times". While it's true that Londoners call their newspaper only "The Times", he was in the US, where "The Times" is taken to mean the New York newspaper. Lang said "London Times" for the benefit of his US audience.

When Adam Lang emerges from the limousine to address the reporters, Amelia Bly crosses behind him and stands to the left. In the next shot, which shows the remainder of the press conference on television, Amelia is standing to the right of Adam. However the news camera's POV is different from that of the initial shot of the characters taking up position and Bly's positioning is not inconsistent.

The NHL game being broadcast at the bar is on Rogers Sportsnet which is a Canadian station. This channel can be watched in the United States on the NHL Center Ice package.

When the Ghost gets disconnected on his cell phone, we hear a fast busy signal. When a cell phone is disconnected it goes dead. There is never a dial tone or a fast busy on disconnect.

When the ghost gets in the BMW, the BMW Connected Drive starts up immediately. However, it takes some time to start this up; in order to function properly, it has to connect to some satellites. The BMW Connected Drive can not work whilst in a garage (there is no contact with any satellite whatsoever to give directions).

The story takes place well after 9/11. That means that if the Ghost abandoned his vehicle on a ferry or jumped off and the ran away, he would be expecting a visit from the FBI at the very least, or he would have been arrested. The vehicle itself would be impounded and its likely that this would have resulted in some significant local headlines.

Towards the beginning there is a shot of the front end of a Ford truck waiting to depart the ferry, much later in the movie the same shot is used but it is reversed, with the letters backwards.

The number changes, on the license plate of the Ghost's car. In the opening sequence (and variously later on), the space is located before the last digit as in "9G8G space 7". However, at various other times, the space is located one character earlier, as in "9G8 space G7".

When the Ghost visits the Rhinehart offices at the beginning to interview for the position, he goes through security and is given a Visitor badge, which he is seen wearing in the meeting, but his agent Rick and the lawyer are clearly not wearing one, even though they are visitors as well.

The first car off the ferry in the beginning of the movie has a white New York State Statue of Liberty license plate. The "Liberty" license plate was retired in 2001, before the War on Terror.

Several curse words are dubbed over with British words, though the actors are clearly saying something else (notably Lang saying "sod" dubbed in place of the "f-word"). (This only occurs in the U.S. PG-13 version of the film. Versions in Canada and the UK have no overdubbing and so the said dialog matches the mouth movements.)

After the Ghost Writer reads a 212-555 phone#, he presumably dials that 555-prefix number, but, the tones are not the same as a 555-number would be.

A yellow and black striped buoy viewed from the ferry is a European type not found in US waters.

When The Ghost is in his hotel room, the telephone rings and it is a UK brrring-brrring (double) ring instead of a long single ring.

When the Ghost stands outside Paul Emmett's house and looks in the mailbox, the letters have all been sent to Belmont, MA 02324. This is the ZIP code for Bridgewater, which is 40 miles away. Belmont's ZIP code is 02478.

There are no leaves on trees or green grass in Massachusetts or on Cape Cod at the January when the movie takes place.

Professor Paul Emmett's house is in Belmont, a densely-populated inner suburb of Boston that's only 3 miles away from Harvard University. However, the professor's house is shown in isolated deep woods.

On the private jet, The Ghost presents Adam Lang with a group photograph that shows Paul Emmett and Adam Lang together. The dialog runs: "When McAra found this (the photograph) he went to Boston to show it to Emmett and he died on the way home and I think he was murdered. If McAra drowned before he could get back to the island, how did the photograph get into the envelope taped to the bottom of a drawer in McAra's bedroom closet?

The CIA (presumably the group following the "ghost") has access to advance tracking technologies alas well the ability to hack into GPS systems. Why they would use so clumsy a physical tail on him makes no sense.

Though the movie is set in Massachusetts, when the ticket agent at the ferry asks The Ghost for his choice of ticket type, she uses the British words "single" and "return" instead of the United States expressions "one-way" and "round-trip".

On the ticker for CNN during the news report, British is spelled "Bristish"

An intellectual man like Paul Emmett with a Cambridge doctorate degree should know better than to use the object form of "who" in a copular sentence - "And he is whom?"

Towards the beginning, when The Ghost is being introduced to the Rhinehart top brass, Tom says "And Nick Ricardelli I believe you know". The man's name is Rick Ricardelli, not Nick, as is evinced in the very next line.

When the Ghost first enters the compound Security searches for bombs under his taxi with a mirror. A real guard would have known to check the wheel arch by passing the mirror over the wheel.