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Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: Holly's cigarette changes position and her face changes expression between shots while watching the dancer in the scene following her farewell to Doc at the bus terminal.
  
  
• Continuity: After Holly enters Paul's bedroom through the window, stockings appear on her legs.
  
  
• Continuity: At the end of the film, Holly puts on nylon stockings in the cab. The left one has a visible run on it, yet the stylish Holly still puts it on. When she steps out of the cab, the run is gone. Then, as she searches for the cat, the nylons seem to disappear and then reappear.
  
  

• Miscellaneous: Towards the end of the movie when Holly and Paul are in the cab, you can see that the taxi driver isn't really holding the steering wheel and that it's turning itself.
  
  
• Continuity: When Holly breaks things in her apartment, Paul's necktie is alternately in/out of his vest between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When Holly gets out of the cab in the rain at the end, her hair is already soaking wet.
  
  
• Continuity: When Holly is in a mad rage in her apartment she pulls up the cloth on her dressing table, throwing the cat to the floor. In the next shot, he flies up to the window.
  
  
• Continuity: At the party before she meets Rusty her hair is streaked blonde and has approximately 3 strands of blonde hair running up into her bun. Later the bun and streaks are differently placed. Only two strands running up into the bun.
  
  
• Continuity: Cat is played by at least two cats, a yellow mackerel tabby and a yellow classic tabby, that change back and forth throughout the movie.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene where Holly sneaks into Paul's apartment to visit the night after they first meet, he is wearing a watch on his right wrist. However, when he states, "They bought what's in that box," while pointing to a box filled with copies of his novel, the watch disappears. It reappears in the next shot.
  
  
• Continuity: In the party scene, Paul dances his way out with an older woman. The woman is carrying a coffee cup which changes from yellow in the first shot to pink in the next.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Holly is listening to the LP to learn Portuguese, the voice in the record speaks Portuguese with a Portuguese accent (and not Brazilian, as it should be).
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Holly and Mr. Pereira come from a dinner/party, he brings a banderilla (from the Spanish and not Brazilian folklore) and says "Ole", in Spanish. (Brazilians speak Portuguese).
  
  
• Continuity: In the final scene, Paul's rain-soaked hair switches back and forth from being tussled in the wider shots to being slicked back in the close-ups.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When learning Portuguese Holly says there are over a hundred irregular verbs. However in Brazilian Portuguese these have all been rationalised. Holly was going to Brazil.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: After meeting Mrs. Falensen, outside the apartment building, Holly jumps in the cab saying " Grand Central Station and step on it darling." After the cab pulls away in the background, the bottom of Holly's black dress is visibly caught in the cab door.
  
  

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