What A Girl Wants

Continuity mistake: When Daphne goes into the Hotel in London, she walks through the door and loosens the scarf around her neck. When she turns around to look at Ian, her scarf is tightened around her neck again.

Continuity mistake: When Daphne and Ian are shopping in London on their first date, they go into a shop with sari's. Daphne is wearing a black blazer jacket when she goes into the change room but when she comes out with a sari on over her jeans, she does not have it on. Then Daphne and Ian leave the shop without it and Daphne does not wear it for the rest of the date, nor carry it about. (00:56:15)

Continuity mistake: Daphne has just arrived at Dashwood Manor. When she goes to climb up the wall, she is holding a book in her hand. In the next shot it's gone. (00:17:25)

Continuity mistake: When Daphne and Henry are doing the synchronized breakfast thing, Glynnis answers the phone and removes her left earring. However when see puts the phone down, after just telling Henry that he's got to go out now, the earrings have switched places as now the right earring is missing and the left is in place.

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Daphne and Ian are just out to have fun her bra strap shows and then we cut to Ian then when the camera comes back to her it is no longer there. (00:58:50)

Continuity mistake: In the scene at the end where Henry steps down from the PM election, we see the back of Clarissa's head as she walks in. She's wearing her hair pulled back in a rectangular barrette. A few shots later, when Henry punches out Alistair for lying to him about Daphne, Clarissa leans down to check on him. Suddenly she's wearing an oval barrette.

Continuity mistake: During Peach and Pear's ball, when Daphne walks down the steps while the photographers take pictures of her, Glynnis and Clarissa see her and Glynnis says "What has she done to that dress?" and Clarissa says "Let's Go", they turn around and walk away, while when they turn the camera to Daphne, if you look at the bottom of the screen, you see Glynnis's back dress and Clarissa's purple dress turning and walking away.

Continuity mistake: When Daphne is playing with the dog, in one shot her hair is out, then the camera goes to the princess, then back to Daphne and her hair is tucked behind her ear. She's holding the dog so she wouldn't have enough time to push it back without us seeing her hands move to hold the dog properly again.

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Daphne says she can change she takes off her black nail polish with a Q-tip then she takes her earrings out. When she takes her earrings out you can see that her nails are still painted with black nail polish even though she just removed it.

Continuity mistake: When Daphne and her dad are dancing at the wedding, the camera angle from the front shows her resting her head on his left shoulder. The camera angle changes and her head is now on the other shoulder. Happens about 3 times during the entire scene.

MCKD

Continuity mistake: In the synchronized breakfast scene, when Amanda takes the bite out of her toast, it is in the top corner of the bread where the crusts come together. In subsequent shots, the bite shifts position to the FOLDED part of the bread. (00:50:00 - 00:56:00)

Continuity mistake: During Daphne's first kiss with Ian, the camera angle from the front shows her hair tucked behind her ear, but the camera angle from the rear doesn't. Happens about 3 times during the scene.

MCKD

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Daphne is dressing for the Queen's garden party & goes to put on her black high-heels, she has a boot on one foot, bangles on her arm and black fingernail polish on her hand. Daphne had already removed the polish and put away her American clothes in a prior scene about the changes she makes to be a Dashwood.

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Amanda Bynes and Ian are on the boat, if you look closely, her knot on her Indian dress keeps switching from side to side.

Continuity mistake: When Libby is leaving Dashwood Manor at the beginning of the film, her things are put into a trunk, and you can see the tag number (CYP44V). When the taxi is shown leaving however, it has a different tag number (MMX802L).

Karoo

Continuity mistake: When Libby tells the story of how she met Henry, you see her falling down a hill. Her guitar is rolling really hard. However, in the next shot it's just gliding gently down the hill.

Continuity mistake: When Daphne first goes out with Ian, they are seen near a river and when the camera angle is from the front her hair is seen blowing in the wind, but when the camera angle is from the rear her hair is not moving. Happens about 3 times during the scene.

MCKD

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Daphne is serving the meals at the first wedding, she goes to Noel's table and Noel's hands are together. In the next shot, one of Noel's hands is holding her neck up and the other one is resting on the table.

Continuity mistake: In the scene after the fashion show where Daphne confronts Clarissa, they are in front of the food table. Daphne grabs a piece of food but never picks it up, she stands there with her hand awkwardly on a piece of food while she's talking.

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Daphne and Henry are eating toast, she is holding the bread with both hands when the camera is focused on her and only one hand when the camera is focused on Henry - it switches back and forth several times.

Continuity mistake: Daphne has just arrived at Dashwood Manor. When she goes to climb up the wall, she is holding a book in her hand. In the next shot it's gone. (00:17:25)

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Trivia: The Reynold's house in England was also used for the films Gosford Park (2001) and The Importance Of Being Earnest (2003).

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