Now and Then

Continuity mistake: When Sam says "it'll work," in the diner, she puts her spoon in her coke glass and puts her hand down on the table. In the next shot she raises the same hand up, now with the spoon magically in it. (00:19:15)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: In the diner, Samantha talks about having a seance. Teeny says "I'm in." Then Roberta says "Me too," whilst stirring her drink with a spoon, and with no straw in sight. In the following wideshot she is now stirring her drink with a straw. (00:19:25)

Hamster

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Continuity mistake: When Sam's dad leaves, there is a grey Volkswagen Beetle parked on the street behind him. Yet in the previous shot it was parked on a driveway, not the street. (00:20:10)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: After Sam's dad leaves, Sam gets out of bed, grabs her poncho and shoes and puts a bag over her shoulder. She puts her poncho and shoes out through the curtains twice, and as she climbs through and jumps out of the window, the bag has vanished from her shoulder. (00:21:35)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When they do their first seance, a storm starts and rain is pouring, so the girls run away, but Sam turns back to look, and the large white candle she holds switches hands between shots, and the cloths she's holding change position. (00:24:20)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Sam rings the bell to wake up Roberta, as Roberta walks to the window to ring the bell back, we see a silver torch on the desk lying on its side. Then when Roberta picks it up it's standing upright. (00:26:20)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When the girls are riding their bikes to the library, Chrissy's hair is up in pig-tails with pink bows. In the next scene when the go under the train bridge, her hair is down without any bows. Then when they come under the bridge, Chrissy's hair is pulled back into the two pig-tails with bows. (00:28:25)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When the girls talk at the picnic table, there are some chickens in the background that disappear between shots. (00:29:05)

Hamster

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Continuity mistake: When the girls talk at the picnic table, Teeny’s coke bottle constantly rotates, which differs from reading "Coca-cola" to "Coke." (00:29:15)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When the girls are at the table, Samantha is doing her hair, and her white hairband is hanging from her arm. At frist it hangs by her armpit, but in the next shot it hangs from her wrist. (00:29:25)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When the girls stop by the tree to take a break, as she turns off the radio, Teeny changes from standing to the left of her bike, to standing over her bike frame, with one leg either side. (00:31:20)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Roberta is on the tree branch before she dives, in a frontal shot she is bending down holding onto a branch for support. In a reversal shot she's standing up straight. (00:32:30)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: After Roberta jumps into the shallow lake, Chrissy's hair, the brightness of the sun, and the positions of the girls as they swim over to Roberta all keep changing from shot to shot. (00:32:40)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Roberta is being pulled onto the sand you can see that the sand is on her shorts and hair, but in the next scene the sand is gone. (00:33:45)

Continuity mistake: In the scene where the boys are skinny-dipping in the lake, the rope-swing by the trees disappears in one shot and then reappears. (00:34:05)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When the girls spy on the boys skinny-dipping, the amount of shadows cast on the log that they spy behind constantly changes. (00:34:10)

Hamster

Revealing mistake: When Sam trips over in the cemetery, she falls onto Dear Johnny's cracked tombstone. As she pushes down, the 'tombstone' squashes under her hands. (00:27:25)

Hamster

More mistakes in Now and Then

Teeny: Chrissy, truth or dare?
Chrissy: Truth.
Teeny: Have you ever been french kissed?
Chrissy: Are you kidding? I don't want to get pregnant!
Roberta: You can't get pregnant from french-kissing!
Chrissy: I know that, beetle-brain, but it's common knowledge that if you tongue-kiss a boy, he automatically thinks you'll do the deed with him. They can't help it. They're driven. It's the male curse.

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Trivia: The girl that plays Samantha's little sister is Rumor Willis - the daughter of Demi Moore, who plays Older Samantha.

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Question: During the scene when Roberta is reading the newspaper about her mother's death, the printed article mentions that the truck driver who killed her mom was named Peter. Are we to believe that this is "Crazy Pete"?

Answer: There are two different men named Peter. In the shot of the newspaper while Roberta is reading the article, it states that the driver of the pickup truck was Peter Norris (00:41:35). Then Sam finds the article about 12 year old Jonathan Simms and his mother, Beverly Ann, so we know that "Crazy Pete" is Peter Simms (00:43:00).

Super Grover

Answer: We are never even told that Crazy Pete is even the old mans real name. It was probably just a random person who killed Roberta's mother.

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