Riding in Cars with Boys (2001) - 17 mistakes

Other: When Bev and Jason are on their way to visit Ray to get the form signed, they stop at a diner. Jason uses the phone to call Amelia and Bev orders 2 black coffees to go. After she leaves the bathroom and Jason hangs up the phone, Bev walks out the door and says "Jason are you coming?" and Jason grabs the coffees, but neither of them ever pay for them.

Continuity: In the scene on the sidewalk where Bev is pretending Faye is her mom (and she's practicing to tell her mom that she's pregnant) the same people walk by several times. I don't think there was a single shot-reverse-shot sequence that had the right people walking by at the right time. You saw the same couple, for example, walk by at least four different times.

Continuity: In the scene near the end of the film where Drew and her son are in the car together and Drew is in the passenger seat, there are several close-ups of Drew's face. Her eye make-up, especially the black eye-liner, changes at least 5 times in the space of about 10 minutes.

Factual error: The movie takes place in Connecticut from 1961-1986. All the cars in the movie have license plates on their front bumpers, but Connecticut didn't require front plates until just a few years ago (late 90s-early 00s).

Continuity: When Drew Barrymore and Steve Zahn are in the car together about to make out for the first time, Steve Zahn tells Drew Barrymore that she doesn't want to get involved with a guy like him. Immediately after this, the shots switch between Drew and Steve, and Drew's hand alternates between on the top of the seat, and down by her lap.

Continuity: When Bev is sitting on the couch talking to her mother about missing her clinic appointment,watch the book she lays on the pillow.It keeps changing position.Once it turned completely around.

Continuity: After Beverly has her baby, in the hospital her father is going on about how she's fifteen years old and can't handle the responsibility. The movie, movie summary, and special features on the DVD all mention that Beverly was 16 years old when she had her baby. Wouldn't her own father know how old Beverly was?

Continuity: During the scene where Drew Barrymore's son tells her he has lost a tooth, they show his mouth with a blank spot where his front tooth had been. In all subsequent shots in the scene, all of the teeth in the boy's mouth are clearly intact.

Continuity: When Bev is sitting at a table in Jason's room trying to study, Jason is distracting her. There is a blue bowl of food on the floor. Then Bev says "I'm trying to study". Watch the bowl. First it's on the floor, then it's on the table, then it's completely gone.

Continuity: When Beverley is sitting on the toilet and crying and telling Ray about how awful things are going for her she is holding a cigarette. Next shot her hand is out of view then she waves it around and there's no cigarette. Next few shots and she stands up and there's absolutely no sign that a cigarette was even in that room.

Continuity: When Faye and Bev are sitting at the bride's table at Bev's wedding dinner,Faye pours herself a glass of wine. Watch as Bev is talking about Faye leaving. Faye is holding the glass in her hand and it's full, then it's on the table almost empty, then in her hand again full.

Continuity: When Bev and Faye are eating ice cream on the sidewalk, they're joking around, holding their arms out to the side. But in the very next shot, their arms are suddenly down in front of them.

Plot hole: In the beginning, Bev is picked up by Jason, who throws her big box into the back seat of the car. When Jason leaves Bev at the roadside store, the box is still in the back seat. It must not have been very important to Bev.

Continuity: When Jason is throwing snowballs at his house there are two snowballs sitting on the car, when it shows a close up of Amellia, there is only one snowball on the car.

Continuity: When Drew has just had her baby she is sitting in the bed and the curtain beside her is closed, then after it shows her parents looking at the baby it shows her again and the curtain is open.

Continuity: When Bev tells her boyfriend she is pregnant, the necklace she is wearing switches from being over to under her shirt.

Continuity: At the wedding Faye pours her some wine and she is holding it, it shows a different angle and the glass is on the table and the it goes back to the other view and she is holding it again.