The bearded extra sitting next to Jonah on the airplane is also sitting in the same row with Tom Hanks on the following plane.
As Annie walks up to the edge of the Empire State Building's viewing platform, she is looking North, as shown by the Chrysler Building in the distance. Being that she has arrived in the evening, the eastern sky would not be brighter towards the horizon. Photo backdrop is of the wrong time of day.
On Valentine's Day in New York, while Annie and Walter are having dinner, the sky is getting dark. Then, it is lighter when Sam is leaving the airport. It is darker again when Jonah is shown on top of the Empire State Building.
When we first see Sam, he's outside and there's a Christmas tree visible inside the house, with large lights on it. The interior tree bears no resemblance to this, having tiny white lights.
Before the restaurant scene at night overlooking the Empire State Building, the tip of the Empire State Building is shown spinning in the daylight however it is an extreme close-up it is clearly white and not the Empire State Building top at all friends.
Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks are supposed to meet at the top of the Empire State Building however, when Meg Ryan arrives too late, she looks out from the observation deck, and the Empire State Building can clearly be seen below, to her right.
West Coast broadcasts of the New Year's ball drop at Times Square in New York are delayed 3 hours to midnight Pacific Time.
On Valentine's Day, the top of the Empire State Building would be lit up in red. However, this is a fictitious universe and they replaced that by Illuminating a red heart in front of the building.
The unaccompanied minor age with most airlines is 17 and under. At Jonah's age (8), with an unaccompanied minor status, he would have needed a parent/legal guardian/authorized adult at the departure gate and at the arrival gate. Jonah would have also have had to wear a placard around his neck with all his info and parent signature during the entire flight. However this is a fictitious universe and concise for time.
Annie is ordering a background check on Sam from the AAA Detective agency, which is illegal without the person who's being investigated's signature on form DSHS 09-653 from Washington State.-- People who are being investigated are suspects and their permission is not needed.
Annie's brother tells her, "It rains nine months out of the year in Seattle", which is completely inaccurate. Seattle averages about 37" of rain per year, and only five months of the year are considered "rainy" (including data at the time of the movie). It would, however, have been factual for him to say, "It's overcast nine months out of the year in Seattle." However this is a figure of speech and people exaggerate when they speak to their friends and this is to be taken as such.
At Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Annie is walking up a jetway that is not connected to anything; there is no airplane at the gate.
When Annie is running to the Empire State Building, the streets are very wet. When she gets to the open to the weather observation deck, it is dry, with no evidence of rain. Furthermore, Jonah, who had been sitting near a telescope on the ground, where he would have gotten wet, is also dry.
While Annie and Walter are standing in front of the display window at Tiffany's, the globe in the display window is not turning in the proper direction.
Jessica merely hits random keys on the keyboard when typing up Jonah's order for a flight to New York, yet what she types comes up on screen perfectly, without any errors.
When Annie is ordering a background check on Sam from the AAA Detective agency, one of the hits lists a Samuel Baldwin as a record holder for the Javelin Toss. There is no Javelin Toss. It should be a Javelin Throw. One might think that's a mix-up between Javelin Throw and Hammer Toss, but the Hammer is actually Throw too.
When Annie places phone calls to find out Sam's last name, the green coat on the porte-manteau behind her changes positions, and even turns into two green coats at some point.
Rita Wilson goes on and on about An Affair to Remember but that is merely the subpar remake to the original 1939 masterpiece, Love Affair, starring Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne. Critics who have seen acclaimed actor Charles Boyer's masterful performance all concur that Cary Grant "phoned in" his second rate performance which does not hold a candle to the original. The remake is simply that, and is remade almost frame by frame, which was completely unnecessary.
Sound and vision for the fireworks are simultaneous and should not be.
The camera is reflected in the shop window when Walter and Annie see the globe, circled with red hearts, in the window display.
When Annie and Walter are getting out of their cars at her parents' home in Baltimore, a street sign for Seattle's Queen Anne neighborhood is visible.
When Sam and Jonah take the small motorboat to Alki beach, they could not have gotten from Lake Union where the houseboat is moored to Alki in West Seattle without going through the Ballard locks. Possible but highly unlikely in a small outboard like they were using.
Annie could not have followed Sam and Jonah in her car when they went from West Lake to Akli Beach as these two areas miles apart and are not reachable by roads from which the water can always be seen. The best she could do was to have known where they were going and have met them there.
The sequence Annie is taking to Sam's houseboat, which is on Westlake Ave. N, is wrong. She is taking I-5 North, and then is seen taking a right off of Western Ave. which is over one mile to the west of the freeway onto the street which she turned east, meaning she is heading back to the freeway. Then she is seen going southbound onto Westlake Ave. which cannot be accessed from the direction Annie was headed; she would've had to have taken the Mercer Street Exit and taken Westlake Ave. N to where Sam's houseboat was, some three miles further. Additionally, Westlake Ave. from downtown to the Fremont bridge where Annie is seen driving north is an arterial thoroughfare, meaning there is no parking anywhere along Westlake Ave.
Maggie Baldwin's obituary states that her funeral is being held at a church located at 110 N. State Street in Chicago. There has never been a church at this address. It's actually the former site of the Roosevelt Theater, which closed in 1979 and was torn down in 1989 to make room for an office complex. Today, the location is home to a shopping center and movie theater.
Though it would have ruined the climactic end to the movie, it would have not been necessary for Sam (Tom Hanks) to frantically hop the next plane to New York in an effort to find his son. Jonah's plane had just taken off from Seattle when Sam learned where his son had gone. Sam had hours to notify authorities concerning the safety of his son, a young child. A simple call to the airline and the pilot would have been notified that the Jonah was on board and the situation. Airport officials could have put him on a plane right back to Seattle upon arriving in New York or held him at the airport until Sam arrived to claim his match making son. Even if Jonah had already landed in New York and was patiently waiting at the Empire State Building, a phone call to the Manhattan Police or the security at the Empire State Building would also have gotten adult supervision for young Jonah instead of the little boy sitting alone at the top of the Empire State Building in the winter cold all day long.
A boom mic shows in Walter's car window as he walks toward Annie.
Walter is supposed to be allergic to wheat, but he ordered a sandwich on white bread, which is made from wheat.
When Jonah is sitting with Jessica in the chair, he tells Sam: "When you play it backwards this says 'Paul is Dead'." The actual saying is 'Turn me on dead man' and it is on The Beatles' White Album, which was released on Apple records. (The record on their record play has a 'Capitol' label on it). The Capitol record that they are playing is more likely Strawberry Fields Forever. In the end section people claimed they heard John sing,"I buried Paul" which contributed to the hoax of Paul's premature death.
Walter says that Duluth is in North Dakota. It's in Minnesota.