Continuity: At the beginning of the movie when Sara is riding the train, the engine switches from back to front a few times.

Continuity: When Derek and Sarah are waiting for the bus, as it pulls up it has 3 numbers as the bus number. As the shot switches to the other side of the bus the numbers are completely different.

Continuity: In the scene where Shanelle and Sara are in the clinic with the baby and they argue, Sara leaves and Shanelle is looking at her. There is a close-up of Sara about to walk out the door and in the background you can see Shanelle staring off into space the other way, and then a split second later there is a close-up of Shanelle and now she is looking at Sara again.

Factual error: In the beginning of the movie when Sarah gets off the train she tells her father that she has two small bags and one big one but she was riding a Metra train and you cannot check baggage on a Metra train.

Continuity: This mistake occurs when Julia Stile's character, Sarah, is arguing with Derrick in English class near the beginning of the movie. If you look closely at his name tag/student card it flips from the front (with his picture) to the back (with nothing on it) several times after the camera returns to him.

Continuity: Sara goes to Chenille's the first time by walking under the "L". After Derek walks her home, he leaves in the opposite direction. After the ballet, Derek leaves again in the opposite direction.

Continuity: When Sarah first goes to school, she has to go through a security check. When she gives her bag to the security guard to be checked, the man opens all of the zips on the bag. The bag is then handed back to Sarah, but when she puts the bag bag on her back, the zips are done up without her having time to do them up.

Continuity: In the scene where Sarah whips out her $20 bill she hands it to Snook. He then takes it and has it in his hands. From one moment to the other, somehow, The $20 bill ends up in his hat without him even putting it there.

Continuity: Sarah's bun changes places on her head during her last dance.

Continuity: In the scene where Sarah is talking to her friend on the phone from her other school, her friend asks Sarah if there are any white guys at her school and Sarah says no there aren't. In the classroom scene and in other shots, you can see a few white guys.

Continuity: When Derek and Sarah kiss each other in the flat of Sarah's father, before they start to get naked, the point of view changes from behind Derek to behind Sarah a couple of times. In one of the views, Derek's head is leaning to the right as he prepares to kiss Sarah (and Sarah's head is consequently also leaning to her right), and in the other point of view, is the other way around: both heads are leaning to the left as they approach for the kiss.