Continuity mistake: When Howard's wife is leaving Joel's apartment, the first two shots show her trench coat belt hanging from the bottom of the driver's door. In the third shot the belt is no longer hanging from the door. (01:19:30)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: Michel Gondry
Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Elijah Wood, Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Mark Ruffalo, Gerry Robert Byrne
Both Joel and Clementine have their memories of each other erased. After Mary (Kirsten Dunst) finds that she had her memory erased after having a relationship with Dr. Howard (Tom Wilkinson), she sends the files and tapes to the people who have had their memories erased. When Clementine and Joel discover what they did, they eventually decide to start a new relationship with each other.
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More mistakes in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Clementine: Sometimes I don't think people realise how lonely it is to be a kid. Like... you don't matter.
Trivia: In the scene where they're looking at the elephants, director Michel Gondry pulled Kate away from Jim - so in the shot where Joel looks around for Clementine, it's actually Jim Carrey's real reaction, because he's looking for Kate Winslet.
Question: It was mentioned several times throughout the movie that Lacuna Inc gets really busy on Valentines, and also at Joel's place when the tech guy tells Patrick to stop fooling around as they have to get moving to other jobs... So what happened to all the other clients since the remainder of the night was spent at Joel's place?
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Answer: When the techs are packing up then next morning, the young guy (Kirsten's boyfriend) says something about having to get to the next job. So its safe to assume the erasure takes a good 8 hours to complete normally but Joel kept fighting them so it would have taken a little longer.