The amount of ice cream in Lauren's cone increases and decreases as the scene progresses.
As filmed from an interior viewpoint, Mark Blackwell's mother spits on the car door window. In the following external shot of the car driving off, the same window is clean of any spit. The spit is again visible on the window in the next shot back in the car.
Hank Palmer finds his Metallica t-shirt in his childhood room. However, Sam subsequently states that he dressed this t-shirt in the night in which he left Carlinville. Later in the movie, it is said that Hank left his hometown, he never came back until his mother passed away.
So, he should not find it in his childhood house. T-shirt should be in Hank's house which is in Chicago.
So, he should not find it in his childhood house. T-shirt should be in Hank's house which is in Chicago.
The second day of testimony when Hank finds C.P. throwing up in front of the courthouse, Hank is shown approaching C.P. and the street and sidewalk behind Hank are wet with recent rain. However, when the shot reverses, we see the sidewalk behind C.P. completely dry.
When Hank and Sam talked near by the lake, his watch said that it was 3.30 pm. Later when he was in the court room again, his watch said that it was 1.40 pm.
All Indiana cars in the movie have front license plates, which are not issued in that state.
When Judge Palmer is arrested, he is fingerprinted using the ink method. In Indiana, as a state employee, Judge Palmer's fingerprints would have already been on file with the State, and there would not have been any need to fingerprint him again. But, even if there had been a need to fingerprint him, Indiana moved away from ink fingerprinting, and adopted a universal system of digital fingerprints in 2013, the year before this film was released.
Robert Duvall's character states that Reagan oversaw the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Berlin Wall fell in November of 1989 - under George H. W. Bush's administration.
The rental car (SUV) has no headrests. Apparently taken out so that the movie shots would be better.
Hank resents his father as he sent him to a detention centre after Hank had crashed the car whilst on drugs inuring his brother Glen. However, a Judge would not have been allowed to preside over a case involving his own children for obvious reasons of conflict of interest and potential bias.
The parking stripes on the small Indiana town are for angled parking, yet in every scene of the street the cars are shown parked in parallel. But this is the reason when Hank is driving through his hometown that, he mutters that things never change: All of the vehicles are parked parallel to the street, rather than appropriately parked in their spaces.
Glen's baseball film, made before 1989, depicts a Class 3A tournament. There was single class in all sports except football in Indiana until 1998.
Early in the film the camera shows Hanks rental car driving down the country road. As the camera pulls out to show an aerial view, you can see the helicopter's downdraft blowing on the corn below.
All the cars shown in Indiana have a Massachusetts (the filming location) inspection sticker on the windshield.
The sheriff's patrol cars in this movie have all-blue light bars. All Indiana police vehicles must have red flashing lights (even if used in combination with other colors).
An accident happens on Route 30, which is stated to be in southern Indiana. US Route 30 in Indiana runs through the northern portion of the state, not the southern part.
Hank Palmer travels from Chicago to southern Indiana (his daughter arrives later at the Evansville Regional Airport) on a large commercial jet airliner. Hank would not get a direct flight on a large commercial airliner from O'Hare (Chicago) to Evansville and with a stop somewhere else it would take much longer than simply driving the 6 hours south. Hank would know that driving home would be quicker and simpler.
When Hank asks the Judge on the stand, "What would happen to all the cases you've presided over in the last six months if it were determined that your mental actuality were diminished?" The word that Hand was looking for was, "acuity." Actuality means the actual existence, where acuity means sharpness or keenness of thought.
When Hank walks in on the Sheriff and his deputies questioning his father, he mentions that he remembered one of the deputies in high school in the back seat of his Ranchero. Ford Ranchero's only came with two seats.
The Judge tells the accused to go to Indianapolis in early August to see the worlds largest steer. While any "Hoosier" will tell you it's the worlds largest hog at the state fair, it's clearly established in the film that the Judge is suffering from memory loss and lapses in his mental condition.
The Cadillac in the movie is a 1972. In the movie they say that the car is a 1971. When they show the front of the car in the movie, the front turn signals are between the two headlights, as they were in the '72. The 1971 model had the turn signals below the headlights.