Continuity mistake: While Annie and Stacks are in the Stacks Mobile helicopter, Annie's seatbelt shoulder strap repeatedly changes from being over her shoulder properly to being under her arm. (01:03:00)
Continuity mistake: When Annie starts to sing 'I think I'm gonna like it', she jumps on some water stones. In one shot she jumps on the second stone, but when the angle changes, she lands on the first one.
Continuity mistake: When Miss Hannigan is in the kitchen mixing things in the blender the blender is full of liquid. The amount of liquid changes to about half full.
Continuity mistake: When Stacks spits the mashed potatoes on the homeless' face he has bits all over. In the side shots his face is clean. This changes back and forth.
Continuity mistake: When Hannigan throws the Annie shirt at Lou he picks it up in one hand and moves it to the other hand which he lifts up in the next shot but when he does it is either in the original hand and out of frame or else completely disappeared.
Answer: In earlier versions of the "Annie" story, she is orphaned when her parents are killed in a car accident. In the musical, they died in a fire. In the 2014 re-imagining, Annie lives in foster care after being abandoned by her family. Early on, she hopes to one day be reunited with them. We, the audience, never learn their whereabouts, nor whether they are alive or dead.
Michael Albert