Now and Then

Continuity mistake: When the girls are in Sam's grandma's attic, Roberta finds a scrap book and says to Sam "Sam I think I found something," and Sam comes and sits next to her. In the wideshot you can see the page they're on has just one large newspaper article glued onto it. However in the following closeup, as she turns the page, you can see the page is different, and has three small seperate newspaper articles glued onto it. (01:13:40)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: In her Grandma's attic, Sam opens a trunk. In the wideshot there is a little box opened, with nothing on the lid. It cuts to a wideshot and there are photos laying on the lid. Then moments later, Sam goes to pick up a large red scrap book. It cuts to a closeup, and she's now holding some newspaper sheets. (01:13:55)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Sam is in the cemetery with Crazy Pete near the end, the rolling fog is inconsistent between each shot. (01:21:45)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Roberta swerves out onto the road, in the limo, you can see the front drivers window is open all the way down. In the next shot where she yells "sorry," it's wound up all the way. (01:25:55)

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Continuity mistake: When Roberta is driving Chrissy to the hospital, Sam holds a bottle of alcohol. Between shots the level in the bottle suddenly lowers. (01:26:15)

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Continuity mistake: When Chrissy is giving birth, she wears a shirt which has many watercolour brushstroke patterns printed on it. Through the birth scene these brushstroke patterns on her shirt vary and change between wideshots, closeups, etc. (01:26:30)

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Continuity mistake: Near the end of the movie, when Chrissy is giving birth, Roberta throws a red object onto the side table, and it rolls off, out of view. In following shots it is back beside Roberta, on the table. (01:27:00)

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Continuity mistake: When the girls go to visit Sam's grandma, she has only two glasses of lemonade ready. When she sees the other girls, she says 'Let's find some more glasses.' She's away for about five seconds and comes back with five full glasses. Are we expected to believe she got to the kitchen, got the three extra glasses and filled them with lemonade all in five seconds?

Continuity mistake: The positions of Chrissy, Teeny and Sam change in every shot, as they splash about in the water.

Continuity mistake: In the scene where the four girls are at the door of the fortune teller, if you look at Christina Ricci's pants, they change completely between shots.

Continuity mistake: When Roberta is fighting the boy at the game, in one shot she's pulling back her right hand to backhand him across the face and then the next its her hand is pulled back to punch him.

Continuity mistake: When the girls ride away and scatter the boys' clothes on the ground, a truck is visible on the road in the background. When the boys run after the girls, the truck is gone.

Continuity mistake: At the softball game, Roberta steps up to bat and Scott Wormer, who's pitching, tells the fielders to "move it in". As he turns around between shots the boy in blue to his right is leaning forward and then the next he's upright and then leans forward again.

Continuity mistake: During the Red Rover game in the 70's, the girls all turn around and Sam announces they're going to pick Bobby Fricker. As they turn around, Chrissy is looking at Sam, but then the next shot she's facing Roberta and then turns to Sam and objects.

Continuity mistake: When Teeny hurls the Wormers' undies into the air, the shorts are white briefs. However, when Scott runs to grab them, they're floral-print with an elastic waistband.

Continuity mistake: At the time they were all little kids, the veteran from the war (Brendan Fraser) gave them cigarettes. When the girls were leaving, Teeny took one last puff and stopped it out, in the next shot she throws down the cigarette again and steps on it. (00:45:20)

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Teeny: Chrissy, truth or dare?
Chrissy: Truth.
Teeny: Have you ever been french kissed?
Chrissy: Are you kidding? I don't want to get pregnant!
Roberta: You can't get pregnant from french-kissing!
Chrissy: I know that, beetle-brain, but it's common knowledge that if you tongue-kiss a boy, he automatically thinks you'll do the deed with him. They can't help it. They're driven. It's the male curse.

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Trivia: The girl that plays Samantha's little sister is Rumor Willis - the daughter of Demi Moore, who plays Older Samantha.

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Question: Does anyone know where I can find the footage of the Carnival scene that was deleted from the final movie? Its not on the zone4 DVD and I really want to see it.

Answer: The deleted scene was never released, so it unavailable, but there is a website with some pictures from this scene: http://www.frontiernet.net/~rcowart/deleted_scenes.html.

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