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• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Ren and Willard are driving away from the gas station (before they're pulled over by the police), you can see one of their heads in the rear view mirror. They're having a conversation, but their lips never move.
  
  
• Continuity: When they play "chicken" with the tractors, the red tractor rolls to its left, away from the canal. The next shot shows the tractor upside down and by the canal.
  
  
• Continuity: There are two breakdancers in the film. The second one's jacket is on/off between shots.
  
  

• Continuity: When Ren is dancing in the factory and is swinging on the high bar-type pole, he is wearing gloves. During the rest of the sequence he is bare-handed.
  
  
• Continuity: When he is talking to Ariel by the car after she finds him, he is shown clearly putting it back on.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: Directly after Vi, Ariel's mother, says "Elenore, sit down!" in the city counsel scene, the camera turns to Ariel. Next to Ariel, a student is clapping his hands, but all sound has been dubbed out the shot.
  
  
• Continuity: During the city council meeting, when Ren begins to quote the Bible, we see Reverend Shaw Moore sitting at the desk, writing. A few seconds later, in a close-up, he has no pen in his hand.
  
  
• Continuity: When Ren and Ariel kiss for the first time, their arms switch positions numerous times between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When the people of the town are burning the library books, we see the Rev. with a pin of the United States flag pinned to his suit jacket, but in the shot that follows the pin is gone from the suit jacket.
  
  
• Errors in geography: The film takes place in the Midwest, but there's a scene with Ren and Ariel outside where snow-capped mountains are visible in the background, betraying the fact that it was filmed in Utah.
  
  
• Errors in geography: During the playing chicken with the tractors scene, you can see snow capped mountains in the background.
  
  
• Continuity: The style of Ariel's prom dress changes from one scene to another. She is wearing the same dress while in her room getting ready, and at the prom. That dress has a simple ruffle all the way around the bottom. The dress she is wearing when Ren helps her into his car is different. That dress is bustled in the back and has a different ribbon around the waist.
  
  
• Continuity: During the prom, Willard's hair changes style and color three times.
  
  
• Continuity: When Ariel is making the switch from the car to Chuck's pickup and the tractor-trailer is headed for them, they are about to converge at a railroad crossing, but when they do meet, there is no railroad crossing to be seen.
  
  
• Continuity: When Ariel is going from the car to truck, the stereo in the back window of the truck disappears and reappears between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: In the opening sequence, Ariel transfers from the car to the pickup, the passenger side mirror is on the truck. Later at the drive inn, the mirror is missing. It appears and disappears at various intervals throughout the movie, most likely so as to not block the shot of the actors.
  
  
• Errors in geography: When Ren is first pulled over, you can see the Utah license plate on the police car. It should be Illinois.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Ren is teaching Willard how to dance in the field and Ren is sitting on the tractor and the camera moves back and forth between Ren and Willard, the ground can clearly be seen shaking whenever Williard moved.
  
  
• Continuity: Most Baptist churches let out around noon; when Ren and his family are on the porch, it is daytime, but at the drive-in, it is night when Ariel arrives there with her friends. This should have been in the same time period.
  
  

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