Continuity mistake: When Roberta photocopies the page in the library, she takes the piece of paper from the machine and then there's no more paper sticking out. Then when it swaps to a different angle, there's paper hanging out the end of the copier. (00:40:35)
Continuity mistake: When the girls talk at the picnic table, Teeny’s coke bottle constantly rotates, which differs from reading "Coca-cola" to "Coke." (00:29:15)
Continuity mistake: When Sam's Grandma takes a bite from her cookie, the bracelet around her wrist changes position from shot to shot, evident by the large turquoise ball which dangles from it. (01:11:10)
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)
Continuity mistake: When Teeny, Samantha, and Chrissy save Roberta from the water and they pull her onto the sand, Chrissy punches Roberta. When it shows Roberta moaning, you can clearly see that Roberta has a white towel wrapped around her waist. Then you can see that Chrissy has one too. But when they show a view of them far away they don't have towels.
Continuity mistake: Near the beginning, when Demi Moore and Melanie Griffith are coming into the house of Rita Wilson, Demi Moore and Melanie Griffith are standing on one side of the room and Rita Wilson is standing with Rosie O'Donnell on the other side of the room. If the camera shows Rita Wilson and Rosie O'Donnell from behind, Rosie O'Donnell is standing a little bit behind Rita Wilson, but if the camera shows Rosie O'Donnell and Rita Wilson from the side they are standing in a line.
Continuity mistake: When Teeny puts down her paper straw wrapper it is all scrunched up in one shot, then straight and smooth in the following shot. (00:19:10)
Continuity mistake: The baseball bats lying near the batters square actually change between shots, as well as changing position. (00:51:05)
Continuity mistake: After Roberta punches the bully, they pull her back and Chrissy calls the bully a "foulmouth," and between shots Roberta necklace hops from under to over her blouse. (00:52:00)
Continuity mistake: During the fight between Roberta and the bully, at the softball game, the crowd of children around them change many times between shots. (00:52:50)
Continuity mistake: After the fight at the softball field, Sam is riding home on her bike and both her cuffs are unbuttoned. Then she opens her front door and walks in, and her left cuff is done up. (00:53:25)
Continuity mistake: When Grandma is cleaning the floor, you can see the plate of cookies is on the table. Moments later when she takes the girls cups from them, the plate of cookies is on the serving tray. (01:11:50)
Continuity mistake: When Roberta apologizes to Chrissy about faking her death, her stringy, wet hair goes from being tucked behind her ear, to hanging in front of her ear, then tucked back behind her ear. (00:34:35)
Continuity mistake: When Sam's Grandma brings in the tray of lemonades, she picks up two glasses of drink, but in the next shot Teeny, Chrissy and Roberta all have a glass. (01:10:40)
Continuity mistake: In the diner, Sam bends her straw down twice. (00:18:35)
Continuity mistake: When the girls see crazy Pete for the first time he cycles past the camera. then the camera flashes to the girls and then you see the exact same footage of Crazy Pete going by on his bike.
Continuity mistake: When the girls are at the diner, talking about how the waitress Wiladene is "off", Teeny has one hand on her Cosmo and one holding the pencil marking the answers, but in the next shot when Teeny says "What do you expect? She's a witch" her hand is just touching the edge of the table.
Continuity mistake: In the diner scene, the red can with the treehouse money in it repeatedly jumps around, from the table, to the counter behind Chrissy. (00:19:10)
Continuity mistake: When the girls are riding their bikes to the library, Chrissy's hair is up in pig-tails with pink bows. In the next scene when the go under the train bridge, her hair is down without any bows. Then when they come under the bridge, Chrissy's hair is pulled back into the two pig-tails with bows. (00:28:25)
Continuity mistake: When they are at the Greenfield Library, and Roberta is reading an article involving her mother's death, the paper is alternately flat/wrinkled between shots.
Answer: There are two different men named Peter. In the shot of the newspaper while Roberta is reading the article, it states that the driver of the pickup truck was Peter Norris (00:41:35). Then Sam finds the article about 12 year old Jonathan Simms and his mother, Beverly Ann, so we know that "Crazy Pete" is Peter Simms (00:43:00).
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