Now and Then

Continuity mistake: After Roberta punches the bully, they pull her back and Chrissy calls the bully a "foulmouth," and between shots Roberta necklace hops from under to over her blouse. (00:52:00)

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Continuity mistake: During the fight between Roberta and the bully, at the softball game, the crowd of children around them change many times between shots. (00:52:50)

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Continuity mistake: After the fight at the softball field, Sam is riding home on her bike and both her cuffs are unbuttoned. Then she opens her front door and walks in, and her left cuff is done up. (00:53:25)

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Continuity mistake: In the first shot of Sam, Bud, Angela and the mother eating dinner, Sam's hand is in her lap. in the next shot it's up, resting on the table. (00:54:10)

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Continuity mistake: When Sam, her mum, her sister and Mr. Kent are eating, between the first overhead shot of the table and the closeup of Sam, the position of food on her plate differs. (00:54:15)

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Continuity mistake: Between the first shots of Sam at dinner, she lays her fork on her plate, yet in the next shot it's jumped back into her hand. (00:54:15)

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Continuity mistake: After Sam goes into the drain to get her bracelet, the drain begins to flood. As Sam stands up and tries to get out with Teeny pulling her, the loaction of the bracelet on Sam's arm changes between each shot. (01:06:00)

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Continuity mistake: When the girls are painting the garage, the Wormers come along. In a side shot of Scott saying "ladies," Chrissy is standing directly behind him. Yet in the next frontal shot of him Chrissy has disappeared. (01:09:15)

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Continuity mistake: When the girls ride up to Sam's Grandma's house, the distance between the stand of flowers and the door changes between shots. (01:09:45)

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Continuity mistake: When the girls enter Sam's Grandma's house, the position of the dress hanging over the bench, indoors, near the door, changes. (01:10:00)

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Continuity mistake: When Sam's Grandma takes a bite from her cookie, the bracelet around her wrist changes position from shot to shot, evident by the large turquoise ball which dangles from it. (01:11:10)

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Continuity mistake: When Grandma is cleaning the floor, you can see the plate of cookies is on the table. Moments later when she takes the girls cups from them, the plate of cookies is on the serving tray. (01:11:50)

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Continuity mistake: The girls are round Sam's Grandma's house drinking lemonade. Then when Grandma runs over to take their cups away, a cushion appears on Teeny's lap between shots. (01:11:55)

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Visible crew/equipment: In the big game of Red Rover at the beginning of the film, as Bobby runs over to the four girls, in one shot all of the four girls tape markers on the grass are extremely noticeable. Sam is standing on a red one, Chrissy on a blue one, Roberta on a green one and Teeny on a yellow one. They're obviously gone in all the following shots. (00:01:35)

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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: Does anyone know where I can find the footage of the Carnival scene that was deleted from the final movie? Its not on the zone4 DVD and I really want to see it.

Answer: The deleted scene was never released, so it unavailable, but there is a website with some pictures from this scene: http://www.frontiernet.net/~rcowart/deleted_scenes.html.

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