Continuity mistake: Watch the shoppers behind Buddy after the Gimbel's supervisor announces Santa's upcoming visit. Without enough time to have moved between shots, a guy with a yellow elf hat is standing where a lady with a black coat has been.
Continuity mistake: When Buddy first meets Jovie, she is wearing much more make-up by the end of the scene. The amount of lipstick increases quite a bit, for example.
Continuity mistake: When Buddy is lying in the roll-out bed in the living room of his father's house and asks to be tucked in, his father does so. His father comes back up and ends up having a red thread on his shirt. The shot switches to Buddy, then back to him and the thread is now on his right arm.
Continuity mistake: In the snowball fight scene we see some snowballs hit the rock behind them. The snow on the rocks keeps disappearing and reappearing between shots.
Continuity mistake: When Buddy's dad opens the present from Buddy, he holds it directly above the box. In the next shot, a closer shot, he is holding it next to the box. The following shot shows him holding the present directly above the box again.
Continuity mistake: Buddy's date with Jovie ends after sundown since you can see the dark sky and all the Christmas lights in the background. When Buddy returns to Walter's office (with the same outfit) to tell him about his date, it appears to be daytime again. (01:07:00 - 01:09:00)
Continuity mistake: As Walter and one of his employees debate shipping an incomplete children's book, Walter is facing the employee almost straight on, but the next shot shows Walter turning his head from right to left, facing the employee straight on again.
Continuity mistake: When Buddy is on the ice floe beginning his journey to New York City, Mr. Narwhal emerges from the water. Buddy's body is canted back with his left arm raised as he watches Mr. Narwhal surface, but the next shot of him shows him standing straight with his arms by his side.
Continuity mistake: When Buddy is in the Lincoln tunnel, the busses alongside him change positions between clips.
Continuity mistake: When Buddy is drinking the Coke, the bottle turns to show the label.
