Goofs

The tape that is labeled "Vincent Grey" in the first shot has the label missing in the next shot.

When Cole is walking with Malcolm through the streets of Philly to go see the German man, the streets and sidewalks are covered with brown fall leaves, but the trees along the street are all green as if it is spring time.

When Malcolm is sitting on the couch talking to Cole, Cole is behind the couch playing with some toys, one being a red car. In the next shot, the car is blue.

During the "I See Dead People" scene, Cole is facing Malcolm and a tear runs down his face. When Cole turns away, his face is dry with no trace of a tear.

Cole has a light blond patch of hair on the back of his head. While it is normally on the right side, when he sits next to Kyra's sister on the swing it is suddenly on the left side.

When Malcolm looks at the pill bottle in the medicine cabinet, the close-up view says the medication is Zoloft, but the medication inside the bottle is in capsule form. Zoloft is generally only found as a tablet in the US.

During the traffic accident scene, Pennsylvania state vehicle inspection stickers (which are required in lower left corner of driver windshield) are visible on the cars in front of Cole's as the camera dollies towards his car. But his mother's Volvo has no stickers even though earlier in grocery store parking lot the same car did display PA plate.

The Volvo that Cole's mother Lynn drives has no headrests and the seats appear to be from a completely different make of car.

Cole is aware of his teacher's stuttering issue during grade school through high school (Stuttering Stanley), but the behavior has nothing to do with anyone being dead, so it doesn't make sense that Cole knows this.

The burn victim woman Cole talks to at the end (when Stanley walks in on him in the dressing room) was presumably a teacher at the school. In the very next scene Stanley says, "You know, when I was a student here there was a big fire." Obviously the burn victim woman (or a different fire victim we don't see) told Cole about Stanley's stuttering problem.

When Malcolm is waiting to meet Cole for the first time, there's a a shot of the paper he's been writing, and a shot of certain circled words that compare Cole's case to an earlier case. Later, after their meeting, it becomes obvious that the words he had already written were actually a description of the event yet to occur: his first meeting with Cole. However, what he's actually reading is a report on Cole from a previous psychiatrist.

At the end, Cole and his mom are in their car. Both lanes of traffic are at a standstill. Yet while they talk, there is clearly no one else in the surrounding cars.

People are clearly shown walking around prior to the shot in the car. They are walking toward the accident that Cole is talking about. No one is shown in the surrounding cars because they have already exited the cars to look at the accident.

Anna's breath is foggy because the air is chilled when Malcolm enters the room as a ghost, but it doesn't happen any of the other times he is present with Cole, Cole's mother, or Anna, in addition in the very last scene when he says his final goodbye her foggy breath can no longer be seen. However, Malcolm never seeing her foggy breath is explained by ghosts seeing what they want to see. He then sees her breath after his moment of realization, and then her breath is no longer seen because Malcolm is at peace and has left her for good.

Cole says the dead people don't know they are dead, yet the woman in the kitchen holds out her wrists showing they are slashed and screams, "see what you made me do!" clearly demonstrating she knew she had committed suicide and is dead in clear contradiction of what Cole said. However, as far as she knows her attempt at suicide was unsuccessful.

During the dinner scene, mic cord visible through Malcolm's shirt.

During a class in school, you can see microphones in the roof.

When Anna sells the couple a sapphire ring, she puts the ring in a ring box and then goes to wrap it. To get the ring in the box, she pushes down on the center stone with her index finger. She is not wearing gloves, so she would have just gotten fingerprints all over the main stone of the ring. No one who handles valuable antique jewelry as part of their profession would be so careless about getting fingerprints on a valuable sapphire.

Malcolm is translating "De profundus clamo ad te domine" and begins "Out of the depths". But he's translating the phrase word by word from a Latin dictionary, and it's more natural to translate "De profundus" as "From the deep" before refining the phrase after the whole of it is understood.