Goofs

When Avery talks to Mitch while standing in the doorway, he has a briefcase. In the next shot, the briefcase disappears and both hands are in his pocket.

The scene in which Mitch enters the main office to study for the Bar exam takes place prior to Kaczynski and Hodges being killed in an explosion. However, their portraits are on the memorial wall along with the other lawyers who had passed away years earlier.

When Mitch and Abby leave Boston, their car has a large dent in the top of the hood. When they pull up in front of their new house in Memphis, the dent is gone.

A computer indicates it is printing to a laser printer, but a dot matrix printer is heard.

Abby calls Tammy to tell her Avery isn't going diving. After Tammy answers the phone the ash on her cigarette grows very long in just a few seconds.

The cars of the Mud Island monorail leave and arrive at opposite ends at the same time. It would be impossible for the man following McDeere to leave his car and begin running for the other side before McDeere left his car.

During the first trip to the Caymans and Mitch discovers the Chicago files in the closet, when he leaves he barely taps the beer bottle, which in turn, basically disintegrates. First, no bottle would explode like that and second, when they shoot back to a shot of the door after he leaves the closet, there is only a trickle of beer showing. Since he kicked the bottle exiting the closet, the glass should have been outside the door and visible.

Mitch taps the Red Stripe beer bottle and it shatters with very little force.

Mitch is told that he did "second best" on the bar exam. Bar results do not list the individual's score, much less how that person ranked compared to other test takers. Rather, bar results just say whether the individual passed or failed. Additionally, such information is private, so no members of the firm could possibly know results beforehand.

The screen credits refer to a "Grand Cayman Islands unit". Grand Cayman is one of the Cayman Islands.

The seaplane that was supposed to belong to a diving company in the Cayman Islands has a US registration number.

When the Firm questions Mitch about his meeting with the FBI and whether or not they coerced him, he said no. But the FBI did in fact threaten him with jail time and keeping his brother in prison if he didn't cooperate.

Mitch was, in fact, lying to The Firm to hide that the FBI had anything to coerce him with.

When Eddie Lomax fires his .44 magnum under his desk into the leg of thug, his secretary Tammy 's hearing would have suffered long-term if not permanent damage from the sound of the gunshot.

However, there was a large hole in the desk caused by the .44 bullet going through it. She could easily have looked through the hole whilst under the desk and not be seen.

Much of the Memphis story happens in November and December. When Mitch first copies the partners' time sheets, they're for 12-1 to 12-31 (1992). When he copies the summary accounts from Avery's computer, two of them say '1-15-93'. Yet for all this end-of-year activity, there are no Christmas decorations or ads seen anywhere in Memphis.

An obvious stunt double jumps out of the window into the cotton truck.

On Mitch McDeere's (Tom Cruise) first day at the firm, he was walking through the offices, he sees William Devasher (Wilford Brimley) and another man looking through files in an office. After McDeere smiles, Devasher pushes the door closed, which then displays the name badge showing 'M Kaczynski'. The scene cuts to McDeere outside the door as it closes, but there is no name on the door.

The Nordic Man drives right past Tammy taking pictures of him as he drives by only six feet away. Given his role at the firm, he certainly should have noticed.

When Ray ( Mitch's brother) is first released from the FBI agent, he walks towards a Greyhound bus stop. The next shot shows a double decker Greyhound bus with Ray aboard. The FBI are following this bus and report over the radio that the bus is stopping for a dining break in 20 mins. When the Greyhound bus pulls up to the diner 20 mins later, it is a single level bus.

In the book the film is based on, Mitch never actually confessed to having sex with the woman on the beach.

Agent Tarrance speaks heatedly in the phone after Mitch has slipped away, but his lips are not moving.

Mitch tapes the Red Stripe beer bottle and it shatters. The sound of it breaking is not in sync with the break.

When Devasher cocks his handgun right before shooting the Nordic Man, the sound is that of a semi-auto pistol but he's clearly carrying a revolver.

Blades of the camera crew's helicopter can be seen in the windows of the sky car. In addition, the helicopter's shadow can be seen in the fields behind the sky car.

A female background (in this case, foreground) artist smiles right into camera while McDeere rushes past a building in the background.

Memphis is on the east side of the Mississippi River, and Boston is to the northeast of Memphis. So in the closing scene where Mitch and Abby are en route back to Boston, they're driving away from Memphis with the river to their right, which means they're travelling south, the wrong direction for Boston.

The small seaplane used to fly back and forth to the Caymans would take more than 7 hours, with a fuel stop somewhere, to cover that distance each way. That does not fit in the time line of the plot.

In two shots it is suggested that the Nordic Man is sent from Memphis to Grand Cayman to stop Abby McDeere. In one he is seen to run towards the waiting plane, and in the other he is seen deplaning in Grand Cayman for a cab. A few moments later he is back in Memphis to chase Mitch McDeere after he ran from the office.

The law firm inundates the new hire with every possible benefit, lavish starting salary, house, car etc. But then they don't pay for their move from Boston to Memphis? A U-Haul hooked behind a beat-up Supra? With a job like this, one would expect that a moving company would be hired to do a door-to-door move including packing the whole household, while they would fly first class.

However, this isn't a plot hole. They apparently didn't have much to move, since it all fit in the small trailer. For all we know they chose to drive (for their own reasons). Either way it doesn't break the film.

After visiting his brother, Ray, in prison, Mitch McDeere tells his wife that he had visited him. At that point in time, Mitch's residence was bugged, which would have meant that William Devasher would have known about Mitch's brother being in prison. Yet later, William Devasher learns about the fact from a prison guard.

Eddie Lomax is a convicted felon. He would not be allowed to own a firearm, or hold a private investigator's license.

Abby could have disconnected Avery's phone inside the Cayman condo to buy some extra time.

When Ray and Mitch are talking about seeing Eddie Lomax, Ray says that he is a private investigator in Little Rock. But it plain by the meeting between Eddie and Mitch, that Lomax is in Memphis, not Little Rock.