Goofs for
Proof (2005) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: Near the end where Hal is trying to get Catherine to stay, they have a face to face conversation in the street and Catherine's hair is pulled front and back and front again in different shots.
  
  
• Continuity: During the argument between the three main characters, Catherine crumples the notebook trying to tear out some pages. Yet in the final scene, when Catherine goes through the proof explaining it to Hal the notebook looks just like new.
  
  
• Continuity: When Catherine and her father take dinner and they are talking about how many days she missed by being lazy, her hair position alternates from a shot to another. Her fringe is first on the sides of her face, then in the next shot it's pulled back to her ponytail, then back again on the sides in the next shot.
  
  

• Continuity: At the very end of the movie when Catherine shows the proof to Hal and she turns on one page there isn't anything written on the previous pages.
  
  
• Continuity: When Catherine and Hal are talking on the front porch the morning after the funeral reception, the labels on the beer bottles alternate between facing the camera and facing away from the camera.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: In the scene where Catherine is talking to her father by a park bench about going to school, the backdrop of the city and the sun is moving slowly from left to right
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: Near the end when Catherine says she'd rather go to sleep than talk through her father's proof, his mouth keeps moving after he stops yelling.
  
  
• Factual errors: The daughter talks about how the father was looking for a message from aliens in the Dewey decimal call numbers on the books from the University of Chicago library. The University of Chicago uses Library of Congress call numbers, which begin with letters, not numbers.
  
  
• Continuity: Items on the floor change position after Catherine empties the backpack.
  
  
• Continuity: Catherine's arm changes position when Claire talks about vegetarian chili.
  
  
• Continuity: The way Robert holds the book changes when he wants Catherine to read the proof.
  
  

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