Goofs for
Untraceable (2008) More at IMDbPro »

• Factual errors: The movie takes place in 2008, as seen when the killer types the death dates of his victims. However, early in the film, after an Internet thief is captured, Jennifer Marsh says "Sunday is his father's birthday". She is referring to January 10, which was a Thursday in 2008.
  
  
• Factual errors: One of the victim's lifespan is seen to have been June 14, 1955 to January 15, 2008. It is said that he is 55 years old, although in reality he would have been 52.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When the daughter looks out the window upon seeing her house on the computer, the crew can be seen on the far right of the screen through the window next to the one she is using.
  
  

• Continuity: At the hotel, when Det. Box arrives to check on Jennifer, she looks out the window to see who it is, despite the clearly visible peep hole in the door. In the outside view, the door doesn't have a peep hole, but it's back again on the inside view.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Agent Marsh's car loses electricity, she is forced to break a window to exit the car. All cars can be unlocked from the inside without electricity.
  
  
• Factual errors: The FBI does not have immediate access to firearm ownership records. Agent Marsh would have to violate the law in order to gain the information in the manner portrayed in the movie.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Det. Marsh's electrical system is restored on her vehicle, she makes little effort to check the inside of the vehicle before re-entering it. A highly trained police officer, especially a FBI agent, would have enough sense to check the back seat throughly before making any attempt to re-enter a vehicle considered suspicious.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the forum posts are being shown at the end of the movie, new posts show a time stamp of "> 1 minute" ago. It should be "<" for less than.
  
  
• Continuity: In the motel room, the morning after Griffin's death, Marsh is showing Box a video clip in Windows Media Player. The main blue icon in the toolbar is a "play" button, instead of a "pause" button, which it should be if Media Player is currently playing back a clip.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Agent Marsh is in the car listening to the radio it displays the frequency as 108.9FM. FM Radio dials only go to 107.9.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene where Marsh is describing how the killer penetrated her wireless network, she launches the "Horsez" game on her daughter's computer. The taskbar clearly belongs to Windows XP, but the window that pops up is styled like a Vista Aero window.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Annie is playing the "Horsez" game, the button commands shown are for that of a Sony PlayStation, not a computer.
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: During the scene where they discover Griffin's body, (1:16:30) the actor is seen to be swallowing during the pan over the "body."
  
  

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