After Meghan says that the year is 1981 and Michael prints a cashier's check dated Dec. 11, 1980, Meghan gives him the clipping announcing that the investigation is off; the clipping is dated November 22, 1980.
Gallagher brings a bottle of wine to Meg's apartment and it is seen on the counter. The next time it is seen, it has been rotated, and the next time it is seen, it has shifted position towards the end of the counter.
When Teresa talks with Meg in the park, Teresa's cigarette jumps from her left to right hand.
As Gallagher throws a newspaper on the table in the conference room, the position of one book relative to the other changes.
Meg has a drink with Waddell that she never touches. The straw changes position as Meg gets up to leave.
After spending his first night with Megan, Michael tells her as he is leaving that it is 5:30 a.m. It is clearly daylight outside. In Miami in mid-December, it would still be dark outside at that time.
The union workers who struck told Michael that if their union cards were pulled, they would not be able to work anywhere. Florida is a right to work state and a union card is not needed to work. They would be considered "scabs", but they would be able to work at any dock in Miami. (At the time though, and possibly still, it's very unlikely that a non-union member would last long as a dock worker.)
Except for the character of James Quinn (Don Hood), all the other attorneys and law enforcement people (played by, among others, Bob Balaban, Wilford Brimley, and Barry Primus) are clearly federal officers. James J. Wells (Brimley) also refers to Quinn at one point as having been appointed by the President. Yet Quinn is also told by Elliot Rosen (Balaban) that he is too involved in "local politics", and Quinn is consistently referred to as the "district attorney". A federally-appointed prosecutor, however, is always referred to as the "United States Attorney", while only state or county prosecutors are called a "district attorney".
Quinn is called a "District Attorney," but Wells says that Quinn is a presidential appointee. That would make Quinn's title "US Attorney," the job title for federal prosecutors appointed by the president . . . and even if he were a state prosecutor, Florida calls its prosecutors "State Attorney."
California, the home of many screenwriters, calls their state prosecutors "District Attorney."
California, the home of many screenwriters, calls their state prosecutors "District Attorney."
Megan sends Gallagher a copy of the front page of the next morning's daily newspaper at least 12 hours before the edition even went to print. In reality, the front page is never laid out until the last minute before deadline to ensure the most current news.
Although the Catholic Church historically denied funerals to members who had committed suicide, exceptions were allowed beginning in the 1960s in cases where mental illness or disturbance may have been a factor; funerals were only denied for members determined to be apostates or heretics, cases of non-approved motives for cremation, or where the deceased's scandalous life could cause grave harm to the Church. In 1983 the Church completely dropped the prohibition, a position formalized in 1992 in Alan F. Blaweiss's new Catechism.
When Gallagher stops his boat to have lunch with Megan, the waters are completely calm. By the time they sit down to eat lunch, which is presumably just a few minutes later, the waters are much choppier.
However, while picking Megan up, the boat is at the dock in the Marina, where the water would be much calmer than on open water.
However, while picking Megan up, the boat is at the dock in the Marina, where the water would be much calmer than on open water.
Megan sends Michael a note containing a spelling error. It reads "Michael: This is tomorrow's page one - just in case you've cancelled your sibscription - I'm happy for you", yet is told she'd make a good editor.
However, she isn't being considered as a copy editor (who proofreads written stories for spelling and grammar) but for a position of one who assigns stories and makes key judgment calls.
However, she isn't being considered as a copy editor (who proofreads written stories for spelling and grammar) but for a position of one who assigns stories and makes key judgment calls.
The articles in the newspaper use "dummy text" unrelated to the headlines.
(at around 10 mins) The archived newspaper microfilm is dated February 8, 1960, yet it displays a photo of Kenneth Dahlberg receiving a Distinguished Service Cross from Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, which didn't occur until January 1967.
Michael gets cashiers checks on Dec. 11 and Dec 16, but the check numbers are sequential, #173680 and 173681.
When the police helicopter is first seen, it is sitting on the ground. The sounds of its engine its rotors beating the air can be heard, but the rotors aren't moving, so the engine cannot be running.
A coworker spends no more than eight seconds telling McAdam about Teresa Perrone's suicide. When McAdam promptly delivers the news to Megan, he is able to answer Megan's detailed questions about when the suicide was discovered, where and by whom, how Teresa killed herself, and whether or not a note was found.
Despite the shift to the mobsters to being Irish, Gallagher's uncle says, "Bona fortuna", which is "good luck" in Italian.