When Ruth is talking to Jane from her home office, the index cards that she has been taking down from her cork board reappear in subsequent shots.
In the dinner scene, Erwin Griswold is seen tapping a glass full of wine. In reality, he and his wife did not drink and alcohol was never served in their house.
In the ACLU office, Dorothy Kenyon tells Mel Wulf about a letter Abigail Adams wrote to John Adams in 1776 saying "As you write this new constitution, remember the ladies."
The Constitutional Convention happened in 1787. In 1776, John Adams was involved with writing the Declaration of Independence.
The Constitutional Convention happened in 1787. In 1776, John Adams was involved with writing the Declaration of Independence.
While presenting her rebuttal to the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, one of the judges states, "The word 'woman' does not appear even once in the U.S. Constitution." Ginsburg replies, "Nor does the word 'freedom'." The word "freedom" is included in the First Amendment.
After Martin chops celery, he places it in the pot and asks his daughter Jane to stir it in, Jane replies that he doesn't need to add the herbs so early. Celery is not an herb.
Martin does not add celery to the pot before this exchange. He chops the celery, gathers it up but leaves it on the cutting board and then grabs herbs off of the counter in front of the board. That is what what he adds to the pot.
The middle-aged son Charles Moritz asks his mother if she wants her magnifier to do her crossword. If he provides care for her and knows her medical state (and the condition of her eyesight), he would not need to ask her this.
In the 1959 scene where Ruth, Marty & baby Jane celebrate Ruth's job, they toast a glass of champagne and little Jane drinks a toast from a sippy cup. The "sippy cup" was manufactured by Playtex in 1981.
When Professor Brown and Jim Bozarth tour the DOD computer room, it cannot be a computer room of the 70s. In those days, computer rooms were on raised floors with removable sections to accommodate the air conditioning equipment. The floor in that scene is simply vinyl on sub-floor without removable sections or elevation.
When Ruth is interviewing with law firms, she stated she was asked about preparing Shabbat dinner. In that time period, it would have been called Shabbas dinner, the Ashkenazi pronunciation.
At 29:10, even though the passer-by is wearing correct costume, her makeup is modern.
After welcome dinner, when Marty lifts Ruth to cheer her up and they move towards bed, camera trolley is visible in the mirror.
The scene where Dorothy Kenyon recites a letter allegedly written by Abigail Adams in 1776 urging her husband John to "not forget the ladies" when drafting the US Constitution is simply wrong.
There is no way a Constitutional scholar like Kenyon would say the Constitution was written in 1776, and it's pretty obvious that Abigail Adams would know her husband was ambassador to Great Britain when the US Constitution was written in 1787 and, therefore, not a part of the convention of states assembled to draft it--and no way RBG would believe her if she did.
There is no way a Constitutional scholar like Kenyon would say the Constitution was written in 1776, and it's pretty obvious that Abigail Adams would know her husband was ambassador to Great Britain when the US Constitution was written in 1787 and, therefore, not a part of the convention of states assembled to draft it--and no way RBG would believe her if she did.
The cab driver who takes Ruth to Mr. Moritz's house runs a stop sign.
Felicity Jones (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) begins the movie with a standard American accent, then loses it and returns to her own English accent in the hospital scene where she is whispering while comforting Armie Hammer (Marty Ginsburg) and later on you can hear a slight Brooklyn accent (particularly in the first classroom scene)