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• Errors in geography: The subways used in this movie are clearly not New York City subways. The subways in New York do not have padded seats or rounded windows.
  
  
• Errors in geography: Toronto buildings are seen in "New York" throughout the movie. (e.g. when Paul and Dora are walking on the street at night, they walk past Lee's Palace, a concert hall on Bloor St.)
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: While some have claimed that the fountain in Washington Square Park is only on during the summer (contrary to the fall and winter shots), an NYU student has confirmed that it also runs during the school year.
  
  

• Continuity: When Paul is getting pizza, flowers, and a movie, we see him getting the pizza first. As he picks up the pizza box, he has a plastic green bag in his hand (presumably containing the video). But next we see Paul at the video store, and he is pizza-less. He rents a video, and it is put into a green bag and given to him. (This makes sense, since he would probably get the pizza last so it would be hot.)
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Alcott says, "If Betty Friedan were alive... "; this was meant sarcastically. He's probably well aware that she was alive when the movie is set.
  
  
• Continuity: When Paul is approached by Noah who shows him the party drugs, Paul pretends to put them back in Noah's pocket to hide them from onlookers. Instead of doing so he goes to hide them up his sleeve so he can throw them away. When Noah leaves, he pulls the drugs from out of his sleeve. But before this, when he does the motion to put the drugs up his sleeve, his hand is clearly empty-with no sign of the drugs.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: During the Everclear performance, the drumming sounds do not match the drummer's movements.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When two of the guys that Paul shares a room with, about half an hour into the film, argue about whether a girl with a pierced tongue is a lesbian, one of them calls the other one "genius" sarcastically... but his lips are clearly saying "idiot".
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Near the start of the film when Dora is rushing to catch the "11:50" train, the station clock clearly reads 9:59.
  
  
• Factual errors: Though they were supposedly born during the course of Paul and Dora's outing, the kittens they find when they return to the animal hospital are clearly at least six weeks old. They have long hair, their eyes are open, and they are able to move around very well on their own. True newborn kittens are basically helpless.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: In the scene where Adam, Chis and Noah are walking down the street talking about how to "Resolve this Paul issue," Noah says "I mean I try to get along with everybody but that guy's got no personality." His lip movement doesn't match up with the audio at the end of the sentence.
  
  
• Factual errors: Though this was probably done for our benefit, while Dora is running for the "11:50" train, we hear a voice over the P.A. system say that particular train is leaving and from what track it's leaving from. Announcement are not made for departing trains in Grand Central Station.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Dora and Paul are sneaking in to the second act of a show with the smokers, they are seen watching the song "Willkommen" from the show "Cabaret". The song "Willkommen" is the very start of the show, welcoming the viewers to the Cabaret, and would not be seen at the beginning of act two.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Although Dora may have simply been lying, Rubin Hall is in fact not an all-girls dorm, but rather is a co-ed dorm like every other NYU residence hall. Presumably Paul would know this. (There's also mention of a fictitious Hunts Hall, but this is allowable.)
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Dora convinces her obviously over-protective mother that she is spending the night with a friend in the "all-girl's dorm." Later, she basically moves in with her professor-boyfriend for what seems like several nights without even a thought of what to tell her mother.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Misspelled "Financial Aid" in summation before credits. (Corrected for the television version.)
  
  
• Plot holes: In the scene where Alcott invites Dora to stay with him, Paul asks if he even knew she was in the hospital. Paul does know that Alcott knows, because the doctor already told him earlier that Alcott did not know Dora when they phoned him.
  
  

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