Continuity mistake: When Fiona and the "Siamese" twins are at the diner, Sam pops up from behind the window counter with some flour on her baseball cap, but in Sam's next close-up in the kitchen there is instantly much more flour on the cap. (00:50:40)
Continuity mistake: At the start, when Sam is at school and texts "We talked this morning", her cell antenna is pulled out, but next shot the antenna is suddenly back in, though Sam's hands are in the same place.
Continuity mistake: At the start, when Sam is reading the text message from Austin stating "Where have u been? We haven't talked...", on the cell display there are two bars in the battery icon in this close-up, but as she replies "We talked this morning", the battery icon is empty in the semi close-up. Then, when she reads his reply in the close-up, once again there are two bars in the icon. (00:14:45)
Continuity mistake: When Austin is forced to sit on the bench to meet the bachelorettes, the large words "friendship circle" are above the bench. In the wideshots Austin sits in front of the "ship" part of the words and Ryan is in front of "circle", but in the close-ups Austin's in front of "friend" and Ryan's in front of "ship", about 2 ft to their right (viewer's left). (00:57:20)
Continuity mistake: When Gabriella chases Brianna into the car wash, Brianna knocks over a large metal bucket, yellow pails, etc onto the ground, but in the last shot one yellow pail is back against the wall and the metal bucket sits upright, among other changes. (01:03:50)
Continuity mistake: At the car wash, when Gabriella grabs the window squeegee and threatens Brianna, she holds it with the sponge edge facing away from Brianna, but next shot as Brianna runs away the sponge edge suddenly faces the opposite direction. (01:03:45)
Factual error: During the opening credits, as Hal and 9 yr old Sam are driving down the street they pass several 2004 cars, including a Chrysler convertible. However, the opening scene takes place before the '94 Northridge earthquake, which is specifically noted in Sam's voiceover during the earthquake, and 8 years prior to the rest of the '04 film.
Visible crew/equipment: While Sam tries to beat Fiona back to the diner, Fiona and her girls walk into the diner, and when Fiona walks behind the counter, the actor's white T-mark is visible on the floor under the counter, in front of Eleanor's skates.
Visible crew/equipment: When Sam is giving Carter a lift to school, after Carter closes the passenger door, just as the camera moves in closer the reflections of moving equipment (likely the boom) and a crew member are visible in the vent window. (00:11:05)
Revealing mistake: After the dance, during the Mercedes vs. Jaguar "race" back to the diner, much of the entire scene takes place at the same intersection of Victory Blvd and Olive Ave, filmed from different angles. Note the Jiffy Lube and Enterprise (cars) on the corners, which are actually across the street from one another. (00:47:25)
Continuity mistake: When Rhonda tells Fiona that she is going to find a place to put her six dollar pedicure, she puts her hand on the counter. In the next shot (from the back), her hand is down by her side.
Visible crew/equipment: In the last scene, when Sam and Austin are at the San Fernando Valley overlook, at the start of the close-up of the Princeton decal on Sam's restored Mustang, the reflections of two crewmembers are visible on the car's surface above the decal. One on the left wearing a white shirt (with arms crossed) and one on the right that joins the one on the left. (01:30:25)
Continuity mistake: When Sam and Austin are talking about Princeton (through chatting and voiceover), Sam asks Austin if he's told his dad that he wants to go to Princeton, Austin types "He's got a whole other plan." but he says "He HAS a whole other."
Visible crew/equipment: Just before Sam and Carter show up at the pool for Carter's Zorro reveal, when Shelby, Caitlin and Madison are walking towards the camera as Caitlin says, "He was so mysterious, but really obvious...," the shadow of the crew's equipment moves forward with the trio, on the ground behind Caitlin. (Visible on fullscreen DVD.) (00:55:00)
Visible crew/equipment: In the diner's parking lot after the dance, when Carter slams the Mercedes into the sign pole, in the close-up of the car's front end the reflection of a crewmember is visible on the chrome grille. (00:51:25)
Continuity mistake: At the dance Sam is wearing silver non-platform stilettos with silvery nail polish on her toenails. As soon as Fiona and the "Siamese" twins leave the diner, in the kitchen a much relieved Sam shifts her white gown and she is wearing white platforms and her toenail polish is quite gone now. (00:32:35 - 00:50:45)
Visible crew/equipment: The camera and a crew member can be seen in Gabriela's car when she is practicing her "speech" at the gas station.
Continuity mistake: In the first shot of the scene with Gabriella and Brianna talking with Shelby and her friends, convincing her that Sam tried to steal Austin away from her, Brianna is sitting with her arms folded on the table, but in the next shot, she's holding a tissue (which was not present in the previous shot) right before she says "Our stepsister has always been jealous of you" and blows her nose. (Visible on fullscreen DVD).
Other mistake: When Conner is setting the time for Sam to be back at the diner by midnight, the phone isn't on. (00:32:47)
Answer: He is pointing to a red dress with some sort of black coat. Possibly a female Dracula costume.
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