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Continuity mistake: When Sam and Carter leave the dance and run to the Mercedes so Sam can get back to the diner by midnight, in the long shot before they reach the car we see, one, that Sam pulls off her mask as she's running, and two, there's a rearview mirror on the Mercedes. In the following shots the mask is still on her face, and the rearview mirror has vanished again.

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Continuity mistake: When Sam is at Carter's house to give him a lift to school, Carter (in his Snoop Dizzle look) is holding the script in his left hand and the bag's strap falls off his right shoulder when he sits down. Next shot, the script is in his right hand and the strap is back up on his shoulder. (00:11:00)

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Continuity mistake: After Sam loses the two parking spaces to Shelby and then Austin, when it cuts to Shelby, Caitlin and Madison walking down the corridor pushing everyone aside, Madison is holding her textbooks with the books' spines facing forward, then facing the opposite way, and finally back again. (00:13:35)

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Continuity mistake: When Sam and Carter arrive at the pool, before Carter reveals himself to Shelby, the poolside gate and banner cast a shadow on the ground, to the right. After Carter is belittled and splashed, when he joins Sam the shadows cast are now longer and farther back. (Visible on fullscreen DVD.) (00:55:15)

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Continuity mistake: At school, when Austin is putting up the Cinderella fliers, he tapes the fourth flier on the bulletin board under the word "pep" and over the letters "Fri" in the word Friday. Next shot, the flier has moved to the left, and is taped beside both words "pep" and "Friday". (00:53:30)

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Continuity mistake: After young Sam has carried the box of her belongings up to her new bedroom in the attic, she lies down on her bed and as the camera pulls back the window shade is all the way up. It cuts to a wideshot as the camera still pulls back in the rain, and the shade is lower now. (00:05:20)

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Continuity mistake: After young Sam loses her father in the Northridge earthquake (noted in voiceover), she appears alone on the ball field, at home plate. In the close-up much of the area is in shadow around her, but in the next wideshot the entire area is in sunlight with only the fence/backstop casting thin shadows. (00:04:30)

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Continuity mistake: After the dance, when Fiona and the twins are in the Jaguar, and Carter and Sam are in the Mercedes, all driving to the diner, the views of the side streets they pass change back and forth, between close-ups and wideshots. (00:47:25)

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Continuity mistake: When David and Ryan force Austin to participate in the bachelorette 'Dating Game', the CD player sits on the bench beside Austin. When David introduces bachelorette 2, a yellow tape marker suddenly appears on the bench in front of the CD player, which promptly disappears in following shots. (Visible on fullscreen DVD.) (00:57:45)

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Continuity mistake: When Fiona and the "Siamese" twins are at the diner, Sam pops up from behind the window counter with some flour on her baseball cap, but in Sam's next close-up in the kitchen there is instantly much more flour on the cap. (00:50:40)

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Continuity mistake: At the start, when Sam is at school and texts "We talked this morning", her cell antenna is pulled out, but next shot the antenna is suddenly back in, though Sam's hands are in the same place.

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Continuity mistake: At the start, when Sam is reading the text message from Austin stating "Where have u been? We haven't talked...", on the cell display there are two bars in the battery icon in this close-up, but as she replies "We talked this morning", the battery icon is empty in the semi close-up. Then, when she reads his reply in the close-up, once again there are two bars in the icon. (00:14:45)

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Continuity mistake: At the dance Sam is wearing silver non-platform stilettos with silvery nail polish on her toenails. As soon as Fiona and the "Siamese" twins leave the diner, in the kitchen a much relieved Sam shifts her white gown and she is wearing white platforms and her toenail polish is quite gone now. (00:32:35 - 00:50:45)

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Continuity mistake: When Austin is forced to sit on the bench to meet the bachelorettes, the large words "friendship circle" are above the bench. In the wideshots Austin sits in front of the "ship" part of the words and Ryan is in front of "circle", but in the close-ups Austin's in front of "friend" and Ryan's in front of "ship", about 2 ft to their right (viewer's left). (00:57:20)

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Continuity mistake: When Gabriella chases Brianna into the car wash, Brianna knocks over a large metal bucket, yellow pails, etc onto the ground, but in the last shot one yellow pail is back against the wall and the metal bucket sits upright, among other changes. (01:03:50)

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Continuity mistake: At the car wash, when Gabriella grabs the window squeegee and threatens Brianna, she holds it with the sponge edge facing away from Brianna, but next shot as Brianna runs away the sponge edge suddenly faces the opposite direction. (01:03:45)

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Continuity mistake: When Fiona picks up the twins at the dance, the rearview mirror on Fiona's Jag disappears on the way back to the diner, but reappears when she pulls into the diner parking lot, then it disappears again. (00:46:45)

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Continuity mistake: At Rhonda's house, when Sam says, "You sure do have a knack for taking something simple and making it beautiful," the red bowl is beside her. After Rhonda shows Sam the white gown, the camera pans back toward the table top and the lace mask suddenly and deliberately appears and is leaning against the bowl.

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Continuity mistake: After the twins enter the car wash, in the first shot when Gabriella walks through the vertical black cloth strips, with squeegee in hand, she is wearing the large hoop earrings. When it cuts to the next shot, as she shouts, "Bri?," her earrings are suddenly gone. This occurs before Brianna climbs onto Gabriella's shoulders. (01:04:00)

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Continuity mistake: At the start of the pep rally, Mr. Ames takes a seat behind Austin in the close-up. Next shot facing the crowd, when Coach steps up to the stage, Austin's father is gone - his seat is empty, but a couple of shots later Mr. Ames is still there. Additionally, Sam and Carter are also gone in the crowd shot. (01:09:40)

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