The Whole Ten Yards

Continuity mistake: When Jill tells Oz to smell her perfume Jill has her arm up by her neck. In the next shot her arm is lowered, and in the following shot her arm is by her neck. (00:56:55)

Mortug

Continuity mistake: When Jill is seducing Oz in the hotel room, Oz takes a blue shirt off a hanger in the closet and throws it on the floor. In the next shot, the blue shirt is back on the hanger. In the remaining shots, the blue shirt is gone. (00:57:20)

ACertainShadeofGreen

Continuity mistake: When Jimmy enters the room and sees Jill trying to seduce Oz, Jill grabs a towel to cover her breasts, we can see her holding the top of the towel with one hand. When it cuts she is using both hands. (00:58:05)

Mortug

Continuity mistake: When Jimmy throws Oz to the wall and Oz falls on the bed, Oz is lying in the middle of the bed. When it cuts to Jimmy standing next to him Oz is closer to the edge of the bed. (00:58:25)

Mortug

Continuity mistake: When Jimmy throws Oz at the painting leaving it askew. Later when Oz wakes up the painting is straight again, without anyone being near it. (00:58:30 - 00:59:25)

Mortug

Continuity mistake: When Jimmy gets off the phone with Lazlo and Oz asks "What did he say?", Oz puts his hand to his face. When it cuts his hand is gone. (01:00:30)

Mortug

Continuity mistake: When Strabo picks up the knife from the jug with his mouth, the jug remains standing. When it cuts the jug has suddenly tipped over. (01:00:45)

Mortug

Continuity mistake: When Strabo falls down the stairs, his hands are shown untied (what stuntman would want to roll down a staircase with tied hands?), but then in the next shot his hands are again tied. Before and after the roll, they are tied, but not during. (01:01:20)

Continuity mistake: When Strabo is tied to the chair and falls down the stairs, the chair remains whole at the top of the stairs. Later when Oz looks down the stairs the chair is at the bottom and is totally broken, and even if it fell down by itself it wouldn't have been smashed to pieces like that. (01:01:20 - 01:02:50)

Mortug

Continuity mistake: When Lazlo says "If she moves put your cane in her eye" to his mother, Cynthia is sitting with her hands down. When it cuts her hands are under her chin. (01:05:45)

Mortug

Continuity mistake: In a late scene in the movie when Jill St. Claire angrily drives away after arguing with her husband in the parking lot of the motel, the side shot of Jimmy the Tulip shows his golden lucky charm dangling from his neck outside his white t-shirt. In the next frontal shot when he turns around to talk to Oz, the necklace is now tucked back inside his t-shirt. (01:08:10)

Continuity mistake: After Jules has chloroformed Jimmy she pulls up her gun while holding the cloth with chloroform. The way she holds the gun and the cloth changes during the shots. (01:15:15)

Mortug

Continuity mistake: When Jimmy gets to Oz's office, Oz is leaning on a rack with two jackets. It falls down and Oz picks it up again, but now only one jacket is on the rack. When it cuts, suddenly both jackets are hanging on it. (01:17:35)

Mortug

Continuity mistake: Towards the end of the movie when Amanda Peet is holding half of a dollar bill and Howard Deutch is holding the other half, the position of the ripped dollar in Amanda Peet's hand changes between shots. (01:21:30)

Continuity mistake: Near the end of the movie, when everyone has been "captured", Jill rips the crucifix and chain off of Jimmy's neck and throws it at Cynthia. In his next closeup, you can still see the chain on Bruce's neck. (01:22:30)

Karoo

Continuity mistake: When Jill is pointing her gun at Jimmy, she changes between gripping the gun with both hands and with one hand. This happens multiple times during the scene. (01:26:25)

Mortug

Continuity mistake: Near the end of the movie, when everyone has been "captured", Jill rips the crucifix and chain off of Jimmy's neck and throws it at Cynthia. In his next closeup, you can still see the chain on Bruce's neck. (01:22:30)

Karoo

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Oz: What, no Jewish prayer before we have our ham and cheese?
Jimmy: You got a problem with my religiosity, Oz? Do unto others before you turn into a pillar of salt.
Jill: Exactly. Unless they're a rat. Then you can shoot them in the eyes.
Oz: A pillar of salt?
Jimmy: That's right. Moses said that. Read the bible, Oz.

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