Continuité: On the front porch, Bobby's newspaper switches from folded to unfolded between shots.
Anachronismes: The movie is clearly set in the summer of 1960, because Nixon has just been nominated for Republican candidate for Presidency. But when Bobby is reading the sports from the newspapers, he reads that Wills is going after Cobb's record. The year that Maury Wills challenged and eclipsed Ty Cobb's stolen base record was 1962.
Révélant des erreurs: The shot is flipped at the end of the movie when Bobby is riding his Schwinn bike. The kickstand is on the right side and the chain on the left, opposite of where they should be. Also, note that one can clearly see the name "Schwinn" reversed on the side of the bike in this scene. This side of the bike should read "Black Phantom" when facing to the right.
Continuité: The money that Bobby throws at his mother changes from behind her feet to in front of her feet.
Continuité: In the scene where Harry Doolin and the other boys are bulling Bobby and Carol, Carol's hair clip changes in each shot.
Anachronismes: The movie is set in 1960, but the container of milk Bobbie, Sully John and Carol share, while sitting on the log across the river, has a clearly modern top.
Anachronismes: At one point, a school bus with a retractable stop sign attached to its side stops and then continues on. School buses did not start using that design until the 1980s.
Erreurs factuelles: Bobby took a picture of Carol with a Rolleiflex-type twin-lens camera which uses a film format of 6 x 6, sometimes also 6 x 7. Years later, he gives the picture to Carol's daughter, but it's clearly in a modern format of a 35 mm camera. It was supposed to be an old photo, not a reprint.
Continuité: When Bobby runs to Carol's aid after she's been beaten, you can see the microphone wire hanging out of his shirt.
Anachronismes: When Bobby picks up the payphone, we hear a modern dialtone. That tone was not introduced until the late-1960s, along with the introduction of touch-tone dialing.