The Borrowers

Revealing mistake: Whenever there is a bird's eye view of the town, you can see that the far backgrounds are paintings.

Factual error: When Arriety and Spiller are rescuing Peagreen from the bottle, Arriety introduces Peagreen to Spiller. But later on when her parents show up and she introduces Spiller to them, she also introduces Peagreen to Spiller again.

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Suggested correction: She forgot that she had introduced him already. People forget things all the time.

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