When Lee and Patrick are in the lawyer's office to find out about Joe's will, Lee wears khaki pants. From there, Lee and Patrick drive to the marina to talk to George about Joe's boat. As Lee and Patrick walk up the pier toward the boat, Lee wears jeans. Once they are inside the boat talking to George, Lee wears khakis again.
Incorrectly regarded as a goof: The use of different coloured snow shovels by Lee does not occur in a single scene and is not a continuity error. Lee clears snow from just outside the building door in three discrete scenes that take place over a period of several hours or days. The snow-clearing is interspersed with scenes of him carrying out other maintenance work in the building and those scenes are perhaps deliberately designed to help establish Lee's character as somewhat diligent.
In one of the early scenes where Lee shovels snow outside the apartment building, the shovel goes from a metal gray shovel to a red plastic shovel.
When Patrick goes up to Lee's room to ask him for the first time if Silvie could come over, while they talk the pillows on the bed and the beer bottle on the night stand keep changing positions between several shots during the conversation.
When Lee gets home and sees Suzy on the couch, the three drawings hanging from the fireplace mantle appear and disappear between shots.
Lee is shown purchasing beer in a convenience store at 2 AM. In Massachusetts it is illegal for a store to sell beer after 11 PM.
Joe naming Lee as Patrick's guardian would've required Lee's written consent, so he shouldn't have been surprised.
The fishing boat has registration numbers on its side beginning with "MS". Pleasure boats have numbers beginning with MS but commercial boats do not.
Patrick says that he plays both hockey and basketball, which have their seasons occurring at the same time, and would preclude him from playing both.
At 9:58 on the DVD during the bar scene where the girl spill beer, the subtitles say "Ray Charles lyrics" and it is still Driving Wheel by I think Junior Parker. The Ray Charles song "Oh what a beautiful morning starts at 10:05.
Lee says he and Randi were married on Misery Island. The family is Catholic. The Catholic Church frowns on weddings outside an actual church. Unless there is a chapel on that Island it was not a real Catholic wedding.
Lee was very clearly making a joke about marriage being miserable. He and Joe are heard chuckling immediately after he says this.
Lee was very clearly making a joke about marriage being miserable. He and Joe are heard chuckling immediately after he says this.
Flipped shot. When Lee and Patrick leave the funeral home, the sign for the funeral home behind them reads backwards.
Flipped shot. When Lee and Patrick leave the funeral home, Lee wears a toque with its logo on the right side of his head. In subsequent shots, the logo on the toque moves to the left of his head.
In the emotional scene where Randi apologizes to Lee, her mouth sometimes can be seen moving from a back shot even though she is not talking.
The shot of Route 128, from when Lee is first driving to Manchester, doesn't make sense. If he's going from Quincy to Manchester, he would be on the other side of the highway, and the rest stop and sign for the local theater would be visible, but from the other side. He would also be going uphill, not downhill. The way the shot is set up would imply he's going in the opposite direction of Manchester.
After the visit to Elise's house, Jeff writes an email to Patrick. In the email, Jeff uses the word 'privilaged' rather than 'privileged'.