Continuity: When Billy Ellot is looking for Mrs Wilkinson's house he is wearing his school bag over his shoulder. When, later, he gets out of the car he no longer has it with him.

Factual error: In the scene where Billy's brother argues with a miner in the local shop, there is a plastic Polo dispenser that wasn't around in 1984.

Continuity: When Billy hits the other boy in the Ballet School after his audition he hits him on the left side of his face, but the other boy grips the right side of this face after he falls down.