Goofs for
Swimming with Sharks (1994) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: During the "Sweet and Low" scene, the packs of Equal and sugar continually swap places.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When Guy is recalling his favorite movie memories on his first date with Dawn, he recalls the summer of 1988, in which he saw Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). Then again, Gabe Kaplan was not in The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (1979) as Guy says he was, so it's clear that his memory isn't all that he claims. He was probably thinking of Fast Break (1979) in which Kaplan played a basketball coach.
  
  
• Continuity: After Buddy calls Guy at his apartment and tells him to go to the office for a phone number, the back of Guy's jacket collar alternates between being straight and twisted between shots.
  
  

• Continuity: When Guy and Dawn are in the launderette, Dawn's collar alternates between being up and down.
  
  
• Continuity: Guy's head is alternately up/down between cuts when he is holding Buddy at gunpoint.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: Guy puts a CD in the player upside-down. The display then shows "no disc" but the music begins to play anyway.
  
  
• Continuity: Buddy Ackerman has a binder with a piece of paper on top. When he throws it to the desk and talks to Guy, the paper falls off the binder, but re-appears in the next shot.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Dawn loads Guy's washing machines at the Laundromat, we never see either of them put quarters into the slots. Then, when Dawn shoves the handles in to start the cycle, we hear that there are no quarters dropping into the bin.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Guy relates the story of Shelly Winters' interview with Buddy, he states that Shelly takes three Oscars out of her bag, when in fact she only won two.
  
  
• Continuity: Guy stays late to bury the article about Buddy in TIME. Buddy calls, telling him to record the Foster Kane interview on TV. Guy picks up the "Real Life" script and writes "Foster Kane" on it. In the shots of Guy writing from the front, he is using a Bic ball-point pen. When there are overhead shots, he is using a Sharpie permanent marker.
  
  
• Continuity: When Frank Whaley's character is speaking to Buddy Ackerman on the phone the night he has to collect all of the Time magazines he's talking to him about the "Real Life" movie. He's holding a BIC ballpoint pen in his hand. When he rights Foster Kane's name on the front of the script the sound effect is that of a Sharpie marker. In the close-up as he's writing it then shows a Sharpie, but when it goes back to a wide angle he's again holding a BIC pen while the Sharpie sound effect is being used.
  
  
• Continuity: When Buddy talks to Guy about producing Dawn's movie, the script has "Foster Kane" written on the front in big letters. But earlier in the scene, when Buddy is carrying the script into his office, there's nothing written on the front of the script.
  
  

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