- Continuité: Joyce's cigarette when Peg comes to the house.
- Continuité: Peggy's glasses while she puts cream on Edward's face to fix his scars.
- Continuité: When his bush sculptures are finished, most of them are much higher than the original hedges.
- Continuité: At the "bed time story" scene, the granddaughter of older Kim is covered all the way to her neck. A couple of shots after, she's suddenly covered just below her chest.
- Equipe ou équipement visible: Near the end, when Kim is running up the stairs in the mansion, a crew member can be seem ducking down at the bottom of the huge window on the left.
- Révélant des erreurs: When Kim startles Edward after seeing him in the mirror, you can see the board that replaced the water bed as he jumps up from between the water fountains.
- Continuité: After receiving a phone call, Joyce looks for something to wear, throwing clothes on her bed behind her. She grabs a burgundy colored article of clothing, but, when she meets her friends on the corner, she is wearing yellow and green.
- Equipe ou équipement visible: When Peg leaves Edward to answer the phone after she gives him the clothes, she (obviously) leaves the room. Just as she is about to walk back into the room, white cue tape placed right where Peg stands is visible.
- Continuité: After Edward tells the Boggs family about Joyce taking all her clothes off, Peg is sitting still (surprised) holding a fork in her right hand, in the next shot she is holding her food with both hands.
- Continuité: In the diner, Kim's straw in her glass is at an angle, in the next shot it is completely upright.
- Continuité: When Bill is watching TV in the garden, Edward is standing right next to him, in the next shot Edward is further away and starts walking towards Bill again.
- Erreurs faites par les personnages (éventuellement des erreurs délibérées par les cinéastes): When Kevin places the hose pipe on the ground, he doesn't actually turn off the water tap.
- Continuité: In the scene at the diner, the Boggs son has his hand on a tomato sauce bottle. In the next angle, we see he is putting the bottle down onto the table without picking it up in the first place.
- Erreurs dans la géographie: In the scene where Peg stands by the gate leading into the garden by the mansion where she meets Edward for the first time, acres and fields are visible just behind the gate, even though this is supposed to take place on top of small mountain.
- Continuité: There is no egg on the whisks of the cookie-making machine after mixing.
- Continuité: When Peg first brings Edward to her house, she clearly parks her vehicle on the left side of the house. When everyone is seen gathering around the corner, the car is no longer there, though Peg has not left the house.
- élément de l'intrigue manquant: At the time of the break-in at Jim's house, Edward is wearing dark clothes and a cap unlike what he can be seen wearing at other times throughout the film. He has previously demonstrated an inability to dress himself, and with this in mind it is strange that everybody assumes that he committed the burglary by himself.
- Erreurs factuelles: In the first shot of the husbands driving off to work, the house next to the religious woman's house is being tented. The next day the women are at Peg's door and the house is visible without the tent. Fumigation requires 72 hour tenting.
- Continuité: The first dog that Edward gives a haircut to changes breeds before and after it's hair was cut.
- Révélant des erreurs: On one version the movie poster of Edward's profile, there is a grammatical error. It says, "The Story of a Uncommonly Gentle Man", when it should clearly say "...an uncommonly..."
- Continuité: When all the dogs are waiting in line to be groomed, Edward has Joyce's dog sitting on a single, long table; the only table visible before Joyce's dog is groomed. When Edward begins to groom Joyce's dog, a small, square table can be seen next to the table that Joyce's dog is supposedly sitting on. The longer table disappears. After Joyce's dog is groomed, the smaller table disappears, replaced with the longer table that Joyce's dog was originally sitting on.
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- Révélant des erreurs: SPOILER: in the climax of the movie when Jim is hitting Edward with the "iron" bar, it bends noticeably.
- Continuité: SPOILER: When Edward stabs Jim in the stomach, Jim falls out of the window. When we see Jim on the ground, he is bleeding out of his chest.
- Continuité: SPOILER: During the fight scene in the attic, the slashes in Jim's leather jacket are no longer bloody. And when he's knocked to the floor, they disappear completely.
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