Approximate time of nitpick: near the middle Summary: 2 digit address in a 4 digit neighborhood Details: If you notice in the background while Ashley Judd is driving down the street to find the house she thinks has her child; the address numbers are 4 digits...but the address of the house a block or so away is only 2 digits.
Approximate time of nitpick: 10 minutes to the end Summary: Spoiler Alert - two loose ends Details: Libby and Layman's threat to accuse Nick of Libby's murder scared him all right, and fortunately that's all that it was intended to do. For were they to have tried to carry out their plot, they would have been confronted with one minor snag: A totally ruined mauseleum. The absolute first thing Nick would have done is call the caretaker of the cemetary and tell him to take pictures and to note everything he saw (After all, she had to get out somehow, and he knew she was armed; it would be reasonable to assume that she broke out). Better to be accused of attempted murder than murder itself (He could even claim that he planned to have someone get her out after a few hours, that he only wanted to scare her enough to leave him alone). As to Angela Green's death, he had already taken pains to make that look like an accident. He would be up against attempted murder of Libby and massive fraud - which would certainly offer a lengthy prison sentence in their own right. Another problem is that Libby said she didn't want to kill him, just to put him in jail. Well, as Nick himself pointed out, the penalty for first degree murder in Louisiana is death. I can't imagine a jury showing this ultra-creep leniency. If she and Layman successfully carried out their threat, Nick would have been toast.
Approximate time of nitpick: first 10 minutes Summary: Editing Trouble Details: There are a LOT of editing mistakes in the scene with Libby and Matty. For instance, in one shot she has her hand on his back. In the next it's on her knee. In another shot, her son is reeling the fishing pole, in the next he's not.
Approximate time of nitpick: 1/3 of the way through Summary: Blood Details: When Libby wakes up and finds the boat and her robe covered in blood, she assumes the worst and later, after searching the boat, the police deduct that she murdered her husband. But here's what's been bothering me: why didn't the police compare the blood on the boat to Nick's own blood and see that it was either fake or something else, like pigs blood. It seems highly unlikely that he would actually stab himself just to frame his wife for murder (although he was slightly crazy...)
Approximate time of nitpick: 3/4 of the way through Summary: Nick's Gun - *SPOILER* Details: Near the end, when the parole office makes Nick offer him a bribe and admit to killing Libby, she enters the room with her gun. Later, when she leaves, Nick is seen reaching below the desk and pulling out a gun and firing at the officer. But if Libby and presumably the parole officer were in the room before Nick, wouldn't they have had the sense to search for any sort of weapon that he could have used to defend himself?
Summary: Guns on Airplanes? Details: The main character takes a plane to New Orleans. How could she still have the gun she stole from her parole officer? I don't believe they allow you to carry guns on planes
Summary: Silly plot Details: When she first discovers Angie's address in San Francisco, why didn't she call her lawyer so they could get evidence that husband was still alive? She would have been cleared of murder and gotten her son back a lot sooner.
Summary: Speedy Healer Details: In the cemetery scene, when Libby's ex-husband smashed her head into a pole she appeared to suffer NO consequence from it, although the blow was so hard that it knocked her unconscious. At no point after that incident did she even have so much as a bruise on her forehead. Hmmmm.
Approximate time of nitpick: 1/4 of the way through Summary: The Accused hears the verdict directly from the jury Details: In all of the real life trials I have heard about, (except small claims court) when the jury has come up with a verdict the two sides are brought back into the court to hear it. In this case Libby was in some kind of a holding room when her lawyer brings her the bad news. Now if she had thrown a fit in court a number of times she could have been removed from it and then, maybe, she would not have been in it when the verdict was rendered. I assume the director just wanted to save time and costs.
Approximate time of nitpick: first 10 minutes Summary: Not a long sentence for murder Details: Ashley Judd's character is tried and convicted for murder. She allegedly did it to collect on 2 million dollars insurance. Though they never specify what degree of murder she was charged with, it could only be first-degree murder, since it was premeditated. Yet, after serving 6 years in prison, she is released on parole. That is an incredibly short period of time for even a second-degree murder conviction.
Summary: Ship Under Full Sail Details: Nick and Libby go below decks on their sail boat, leaving the boat under full sail! She, at the very least, is supposed to be a sailor. She'd never leave a boat unattended and under sail.
Approximate time of nitpick: 3/4 of the way through Summary: shooting gun while in casket Details: When the woman, Ashley Judd, was locked into the casket and she used her gun to shoot through the lock she would have been deaf for the rest of her life!
Approximate time of nitpick: near the middle Summary: The Last Chance house...except if your Ashley Judd? Details: In the halfway house, one woman was hauled out because Layman said she'd been prostituting again. She denied it, but the cops come to take her back to jail (according to her yelling). Layman tells Libby that he didn't give her a second chance because "this is the Last Chance house." But when she is caught breaking and entering, evading arrest, resisting arrest, not to mention breaking her curfew, they don't keep her in jail...and Layman comes to get her!
Approximate time of nitpick: 1/4 of the way through Summary: Prison Rules Details: I may be totally wrong about this- but since when are you allowed to wear your wedding ring in jail. They ususally even take away your shoelaces I am almost positive that they would not have allowed Ashley Judd to keep that expensive wedding ring on in jail.
Approximate time of nitpick: 3/4 of the way through Summary: Superman in the movie? Details: When Libby is running away from Tommy Lee in the scene when she is in the panting gallery, she breaks a public telephone with her truck and the guy who was talking in it, keeps the phone in his hand. This guy has to be Superman or something to have the strenght of keep it in his hand, dont you think????
Approximate time of nitpick: 2/3 of the way through Summary: Maybe she's been locked in a coffin before?? Details: When Ashley Judds character is locked in the coffin, uses the gun to blast off the hinges and get the lid off. Isn't it amazing that : -the hinges were covered in fabric, but she was able to reach up, tear off a small patch of fabric and....tah-dah....a hinge! -the lid was locked shut...but she knew which side the hinges were on.
Approximate time of nitpick: near the middle Summary: Don't worry, were FINE!!! Details: Okay, when Libby already broke into that school thing, and got the address for Angela, she was running from the police at the beach. When the police were rolling, and rolling, and rolling down the sand pile thing, they came to a stop, and just crawled out, like nothing happened at all, and started running.
Approximate time of nitpick: 3/4 of the way through Summary: Light and shadows Details: When Libby is in the coffin, she lights a match. When she looks down by her feet, you can see shadows of her hand etc. on the bottom of the coffin. Taking in account that she only used a small match and the position she is holding it in, the shadows should not look that way. It is obvious that there was another light source (from behind her head somewhere) that made these shadows.
Approximate time of nitpick: first 10 minutes Summary: Are you sailing or not? Details: When Ashley Judd and her husband are on the boat, Ashley wakes up with blood on her in the cabin and goes above to investigate. We see that the sails are raised. The main sail and the jib are raised and receiving at least 5 MPH of wind. Wouldn't they have dropped anchor for the night since they were so close to the coast? Before you drop anchor you always drop sail so you don't drag your anchor or damage the anchor line. What's the point of dropping an anchor if you're still under sail?
Approximate time of nitpick: near the middle Summary: Who runs this place? Details: When Libby goes to that BMW car dealership pretending to be Angela she gives the guy Angela's social security # and her name the guy comes back and gives the last addresse and everything for Angela. But when her credit report came up it would have shown that Angela was dead. Smart move Libby.
Approximate time of nitpick: 10 minutes to the end Summary: WARNING: ENDING SPOILER! Those walls must be thick! Details: The walls in the New Orleans Hotel must be really thick, because Ashley Judd shoots at her husband's Kandinsky picture, shattering the glass. Then there are many more gunshots fired by her husband, and by her, and no one comes to see what is going on, check on their boss, etc. And it was only supposed to 9:00 at night, so there would be a lot of guests and employees around!
Approximate time of nitpick: near the middle Summary: Buying a very expensive dress Details: I would hope that it is the custom of hotels to check for id when someone is buying a really expensive dress under my name.....i would hope it's not enough just for someone to give my name and room number.
Approximate time of nitpick: 1/3 of the way through Summary: Off hook signal Details: When Libby is calling a second time to Angela in San Fransisco after Nick pulls the phone out of the wall there are one of 2 tones that she will get, the most probable one is a ring no answer. She could also get a busy, depending on what he pulled apart, if the circuit was closed or open. The only way to get that off hook signal (unless someone at the phone comany has really screwed up) is to leave the phone off hook for a while.
Approximate time of nitpick: near the middle Summary: Photo ID for airplane Details: How did Libby get on an airplane from Colorado to New Orleans with out a picture ID. Don't all airlines require photo ID to board? I doubt she would have even had her social security card since she went to jail and just escaped her parole officer.
Approximate time of nitpick: 2/3 of the way through Summary: Air Supply Details: OK, I don't know much about dead people, but wouldn't you run out of air in a coffin if you light a lighter? ALso, I don't know much about coffins either, but there was an AWFUl lot of room in there for two people.
Approximate time of nitpick: Throughout the movie Summary: habeas corpus Details: I might be crazy on this one, but how can you have a murder with no body?
Approximate time of nitpick: 1/4 of the way through Summary: invisible wetsuit, hi mom Details: When Ms. Judd escapes the parole officer she jumps in what should be very cold water. She then gets to shore too quickly. That water has to be less than 40 degrees, but it doesn't seem to bother her. After she arrives, she looks pretty darn good for having swam in that water. And a nitpick within a nitpick, she happens to get to her mother's house but Tommy Lee doesn't think of looking for her there. You would think they would know her mother was nearby and at least check.
Approximate time of nitpick: 2/3 of the way through Summary: Star struck extra? Details: When Libby Parsons is on the plane flying from Colorado to New Orleans to find her husband, watch the passenger behind her. As the scene opens, Libby is sleeping against the window, and the woman behind her is staring intenetly at the back of her head. The woman seems to catch herself and quickly looks down slightly smiling.
Approximate time of nitpick: Throughout the movie Summary: The Really Perfect Manicure Details: Libby has just been arrested for her husband's "murder", she spends what ten years, seven? in jail during the time in which she is lifting weights and working in a laundry yet her nails are as beautiful and well-maintained as the day she was brought in.
Approximate time of nitpick: 1/4 of the way through Summary: Didn't anyone notice the first car? Details: It's been a while since I saw it so I don't remember names but there was one scene where the woman was trying to escape from a car that she was handcuffed to on the ferry. Somehow (and I really don't remember how) she made one car fall into the water. Oops. Then the car she was in started to roll and fell in as well. Once the second car fell in, everyone on the upper level of the ship noticed and the cop who had her in custody realized that she was trying to escape and jumped in after her. But why did they notice the car she was in and not the one that rolled in before her?
Approximate time of nitpick: 1/4 of the way through Summary: He calls her the wrong name. Details: When Tommy Lee Jones and Ashley Judd are driving onto the ferry, he calls her "Partins" when her name is Parsons.
Approximate time of nitpick: 1/4 of the way through Summary: He stops while the man is motioning him forward. Details: The attendant on the ferry is clearly motioning Tommy Lee Jones to drive the car further onto the ferry, but he stops and shuts the car off.
Approximate time of nitpick: 2/3 of the way through Summary: really stupid move Details: correct me if I am wrong but wouldn't be a much wiser move if Libby's husband SEARCHED her before locking her in the coffin? (except he thought that she would be permantly deaf if she tries to fire the gun in there. Well maybe he thought of that. But the director DIDN'T!)
Approximate time of nitpick: near the middle Summary: The incredible floating car... Details: When Ashley Judd and Tommy Lee get launched off the ferry while in the car, the car floats for a few hundred feet before going under. Well this is totally wrong. The car Tommy had was a late model car (I believe it was a Plymouth Satalite, but maybe not), well those cars are known to be extremely front heavy. That car as soon as it hit the water would have begun to go straight down and fast. The stunt crew probably rigged something up so that the car would float in order to give the actors a few minutes to catch their breath or something. Only after they are safely out of the car and swimming up to the surface do you see the car going straight down to the bottom of the lake!
Approximate time of nitpick: near the middle Summary: Evergreen Colorado?!?!?!? I don't think so.....(this took a lot away from the movie) Details: This happens when Libby (Ashley Judd) is looking for Angela's house in Evergreen,Co. Now think about this: Evergreen is in the mountains. In the movie they show these huge trees, houses right next to eachother, and no hills or anything. Evergreen is built in and on mountains. Houses are about 1/16-1.5 miles apart, and the houses don't have nice little lawns infront. There are trees, but PINEtrees,and Aspens... not oaks or whatever they showed. When I saw this movie in the theatre, everyone started craking up (I saw this movie in the Evergreen theatres). We couldn't believe that they spend all of this money and time making this movie, when they can't even get just a couple of shots, or do some research of Evergreen. What's even more interesting is that they somehow found out that the little local newspaper is called the Canyon Courier; yet, they had no clue what the actual town/neighborhoods look like.
Approximate time of nitpick: 3/4 of the way through Summary: Put HERSELF in the coffin? Details: Ashley Judd's character is knocked unconscious in the mausoleum buy her husband, who runs out, slamming the door behind him. She is lying KO'd on the ground NEXT to a coffin. She then wakes up INSIDE the coffin? Say what?
Approximate time of nitpick: near the middle Summary: hold the phone Details: when ashley judd's character runs into the phone booth with the guy. she plows through the booth, but he is still standing there holding the phone. there is no way he could be doing that, it would have been ripped out.
Approximate time of nitpick: 10 minutes to the end Summary: Coffin lid - wasn't locked? Details: Libby shoots herself out of the coffin by shooting two hinges on her left side. That side is towards the wall. When she pushes the coffin lid off, it slides off so it could not have been locked down on the other side. Well, if it was only hinged on the wall side, why did it not just lift up on it's hinges when she first pushed it?
Summary: SanFrancisco ....North? Details: When Libby phones Angela Green in San Francisco, you can see the old Vancouver Hotel (Vancouver, Britsh Columbia) through the window behind her.
Approximate time of nitpick: right at the end Summary: Different time of day Details: Libby Parsons drives to St.Albans school to meet her 11-year-old son Matty (played by Spencer Treat Clark). When she gets to the touchline, she shields her eyes from the bright sun which shines diagonally across the soccer pitch. She calls to Matty and he comes over. It's much later in the day - the sun shines straight across the pitch and, also, someone has provided a sun filter which softens the light falling on her face.
Approximate time of nitpick: right at the end Summary: Vest moves Details: Matty is playing football and wearing a blue vest to show which team he's on. Libby Parsons calls to him and he turns. You can see that the vest is almost falling off his right shoulder. Moments later, in the next shot, as he slowly starts to walk towards his Mum, the vest is tidied up and straight.
Summary: A couple of very tough cars
Details: When Ashley Judd's character (I can't remember her name) tries to escape the ferry, she smashes her car head first into the car in front of hers, so hard that they both go off the end of the boat. Yet, when the car is shown sinking in the water, there isn's a scratch on it. Even worse, later in the movie, Ashley is once a again trying to escape, this time in a stolen pickup truck that is stuck in a crowded parking lot. This time, she broadsides another car so hard that the other car rolls completely over. In real life, the pickup truck would have a demolished front end and would be totally undrivable. In the movie, Ashley goes roaring off and the truck looks as if it came straight out of the showroom. These small details pale in comparison with some of the many other illogical aspects of this stinker, but please add 'em to the list.
Extraordinarily minor slipup in a ridiculous movie. Ashley Judd goes to jail and is
harassed by a couple of jailbirds right off the bat. During this scene, her blanket is
tucked into the foot of the bed, then in the next shot it's untucked. Or vice versa, I
suppose --
You can tell the film crew didn't have enough extras for the movie since they use one little boy twice in the movie. Whether or not on purpose, we'll never know... 1. Go to the scene where Libby and Officer Travis are in the water after the car has just landed. After they struggle, Libby knocks him upside the head and swims for shore. The next shot is of a little boy on the boat watching the rescue of Travis and then seeing Libby escape. Look at his face... 2. Eventually, Libby goes to the house where her husband last lived with Angie. She has a gun and knocks on the door. Guess who opens up the door?! Wow...that little boy again!
When Ashley Judd is fleeing the art gallery, Tommy Lee Jones is running like a mad man after her as she steals away in the truck. when he stops, exhausted, realizing that he can't catch up to her, we see that the museum guy is standing beside him. Not only is the guy old and not in the best of shape, he's also not winded or anything.
When Libby (Ashley Judd) is in the art gallery on the computer, she clicks on the name "Jonathan Devereaux" - her husband's new name. The first time we see it on the computer screen, it is spelled D-E-V-E-R-A-U-X. However, when she clicks on his name and the information comes up, the last name is spelled D-E-V-E-R-E-A-U-X.
When Libby is going down the street looking for "20 Oreal Terrace" you see a few of the other houses on the street. If you look close, you can see the other houses have four-digit address, not two like the one she's looking for.
When Libby takes the flight from Colorado to New Orleans how does she get the gun that she stole from Travis in Washington on the plane? She has the same gun in New Orleans and only had a small backpack that the airlines would probably not have checked in but made her carry it on board. No x-ray machines or metal detectors in Colorado?
Remember the part when Jonathan/Nick and Libby are in the graveyard? Jonathan/Nick knocks Libby's head against a column, she passes out, and then he throws her in the mausoleum. (He does NOT put her in the coffin- he just throws her on the floor.) Then you see him leaving before the scene changes. A few scenes later Libby wakes up and she is inside the coffin. He left her on the floor BESIDE the coffin, not in the coffin. So how did she get in it?
When Libby goes into the art store and says that she's looking for a specific Kandinsky painting, the dealer suggests they check "artscan." When they're on the computer, and she sees the painting, the dealer says that the painting had been sold to a gallery in Munich six months before. First of all, there's nothing on the screen that says that. Second, a few minutes later, we find that the painting is hanging in Johnathon Devereaux's office. What's the deal?