Continuity mistake: When Landon drives Belinda home, his scar on his forehead is gone, but the next shot when he is waking up, it's there.
Continuity mistake: At the beginning when the kids go to the plant to jump into the water, as they walk away from the cars, the lights on the Camaro are on. When they run back, they are off.
Continuity mistake: The day after Landon and Jamie are practicing for the play, Landon meets up with his friends and is questioned, "Is everything okay?" Notice the outfits everyone in the group is wearing. Each person is wearing the very same clothes that are worn weeks later, when they are making the poster of Jamie. Though people realistically wear outfits over and over, here each person wears the same outfit on the same day.
Continuity mistake: In the scene after the play when Landon's father tries to talk to him, a man walks past them in a green shirt. In the next shot, the same man walks down the stairs behind Landon and his dad in the same green shirt.
Continuity mistake: When Belinda comes to Landon's house to give him the pictures from the school play, her hair is in a ponytail. From the back all her hair is in the ponytail, but when they show her talking from the front, you see a piece of her hair hanging down. They switch back and forth between the front and back shots, so it's easy to catch.
Continuity mistake: When Mandy Moore is singing in the play, the clasp on her necklace keeps moving - in one shot, it's visible, in the next it's not, then it's near her collarbone... all over the place!
Continuity mistake: In the scene after Landon gets in the car crash and he is at home, when he walks into the kitchen he is wearing a long sleeve shirt. In one shot his sleeves are all the way down and in the next shot when he sits down at the table his sleeves are pushed up. Between the two shots he would not have had enough time to push them up.
Other mistake: In the scene right after the beginning credits roll, and Shane West is going to sit down at the kitchen table, there isn't any food, but later, while he is talking to his mother, he is eating.
Continuity mistake: When Jamie is singing in the school play, her solid close-up and her bleed through close-up do not correspond. The solid image blinks but the bleed through does not and vice versa a few seconds later. Obviously, this was two different takes that were super-imposed together that, unfortunately, did not fully correspond with each other.
Other mistake: In the rehearsal scene, you can clearly see as the camera moves back that Jamie is cracking up as Miss Garber is demonstrating how to walk.
Audio problem: When Jamie is singing "Only Hope," the pianist's fingers do not match the actual music.
Continuity mistake: When Jamie goes to see Landon after she has told him she is sick, he holds her head in his hands and then moves them down to giver her a hug. In the next shot his hands are back up on her head and move down once again.
Continuity mistake: During the play, Mandy begins to sing the song "Only Hope", and sits down at the table beside Shane West. You can clearly see a small layer of her hair hanging in front of her right eye. A moment later, when the camera angle switches from the back of her head, to her face again, the piece of her hair is gone.
Answer: Yes, and it's by Nicholas Sparks.
J I Cohen