Revealing mistake: After Mike has come home from being beaten up during a game of football, there are no longer open wounds by his mouth and nose, and the dried "blood" looks more like Kool-Aid stains.
Radio Flyer (1992)
1 revealing mistake - chronological order
Directed by: Richard Donner, David Mickey Evans
Starring: Elijah Wood, John Heard, Adam Baldwin, Lorraine Bracco
Genres: Drama
Continuity mistake: When the family moves into the new house, the father rips the former owners' name sign off the front of the house. A few shots later, it's back.
Trivia: According to star Thomas Ian Nicholas, the Richard Donner cut of the film was 4 1/2 hours long and included a lengthy sequence with the frogs being sold to Rhea Perlman. It was shot at least three times and ended up being cut completely from the film. Tom Hanks was also not in the original cut.
Answer: Deliberate production choice, and to show him from the younger child's point of view - also remember The King, when in his drunken state, is a child abuser, so the younger boy will see him as a large and terrifying presence - that is, so big he won't fit in the frame of the shot.
Neil Jones