Gaffes

Alex rips Dan's shirt open. We hear buttons pop and cloth rip. When he buttons it the second time, the shirt is not ripped anywhere and all the buttons are present.

The newspaper clipping about Stanley Forest's death was from 1959. Alex had mentioned that her dad died when she was 7 and at another point says that she is now 36 years old. Based on dates on the unused opera tickets, we see that it is 1986, putting her birth year at 1950. Thus, she would have been 9 years old in 1959, not 7 years old. Also, the clipping says that Mr. Forest was 42 when he died, but the man in the photo appears to be around 60 years old.

When Dan is getting dressed after having sex, Alex is still in bed and her breasts are exposed. Then the covers are up to her neck, back to the foot of the bed, and then to the side where she's once more covered.

There is a large amount of blood on left side of Dan's face when Alex removes her hands, then a far less amount when they cut back to his face after the shot of her hands.

When Dan breaks into Alex's apartment, he sees a newspaper clipping about the death of Alex's father, Stanley Forest (with one r). However, Alex's last name as listed in the credits is Forrest (with two r's).

When Dan listens to Alex's tape is his study, it is clearly not the same one he listened to in the car as her tone of voice is completely different, and she repeats some of the words she earlier stated in a differently phrased manner.

Water from an overflowing bathtub upstairs would take hours, if not days to form droplets that show on the ceiling below it. Yet here, it takes less than a few minutes, as evidenced by Dan boiling water in the tea kettle. Before it has even whistled, the water has already been leaking so profusely in the kitchen ceiling that it forms a puddle on the floor that the dog then drinks up.

When Dan speaks to Beth about Ellen missing school, Beth says, "She's only five years old. What's she going to miss, trigonometry?" While eating dinner at Alex's house later that same day, Dan tells Alex that he's "got a six-year-old girl".

However, even a loving father can be slightly wrong in stating the age of his child.

If Alex met Dan a "few weeks before" at the Japanese party, as she stated when pretending to be interested in the sale of his apartment, there is no way her pregnancy could be detected so soon. It normally takes at least 5-8 weeks for a woman to realize something is different with her body.

The term "few weeks before" is imprecise enough that this could easily refer to two months, which is well within the time frame for a person to find out they're pregnant.

When Dan is driving and listening to the tape, Alex is not far behind, following him. They come across a toll plaza and are preparing to toss the change into the toll machine basket. In a close up, Alex prepares her change and is about to throw it in with her right hand. In a long shot, she puts in the money with her left hand. At some point after the cut between the two shots, she obviously switched the change to her left hand, as it is logically easier to aim the change with the left hand. It is closest to the toll basket.

Alex and Beth first meet each other in the New York City apartment. When Dan walks in, Beth says: "Alex is expecting a baby." When Dan later confesses the affair to Beth, tells her that Alex is pregnant. Beth acts like she is hearing this for the first time.

Although Beth knew Dan was talking about the same woman she had met in NYC, Beth did not yet realize that Alex's baby was Dan's. For all she knew, the baby could have been anyone else's. Only when Dan himself said, "She's pregnant," did Beth connect the dots.

While Dan is in his attic study listening to a tape, Beth can be seen reflected in the window, waiting just out of shot for her cue.

When Alex and Dan come back to her apartment after going dancing on Saturday night, the freight elevator appears to be ascending several floors to her apartment. The next day when they are eating dinner in her apartment, it appears that the apartment is only one story above the street level when you look out of the window.

Alex slits her wrists after she gets angry with Dan. Later on, when she goes to meet with Beth about buying the apartment, she has a wristwatch on one arm and a set of bracelets on the other. However, in a shot before Beth gives Alex their phone number, the bracelets fall farther down Alex's arm, and you can see that her wrist is smooth without any scarring.

Before the final scene, there is an outside shot of the Gallagher home. It is supposed to be late Fall (Christmas decorations seen while Beth is driving, Ellen practicing for her Thanksgiving play) yet the trees outside the home are all in full bloom.

When Alex calls Dan in the middle of the night, from where she is we can clearly see that it is broad daylight, although it should be 2:00 in the morning and dark outside.

As Beth walks into the kitchen to look at the boiling pot, the cameraman can be seen through the living room window.

Reflected in the window that the librarian pushes the cart past.

Equipment is reflected in the car windscreen as Dan sees off his wife and child on their first trip into the country.

When Dan is in the police station, the reflection of the boom mic is visible in a plaque on the shelf behind the lieutenant.

On the windshield of Dan and Beth's car before Beth and Ellen leave.

Having a "bad miscarriage" does not mean one cannot be pregnant. On the contrary, it shows that it is absolutely possible.