Goofs for
A Little Princess (1995) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: When Sara and Becky are in the attic pretending to be rich, the candles change length inconsistently between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: At the beginning of the movie, the pictures in Sara's mother's locket switch sides between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When the girls are trying to steal back Sara's locket a box on the desk opens and closes between shots.
  
  

• Anachronisms: When the little girls are running through the forest in 1914 one of them gives the Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan yell.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Sara's shawl is blown off by the wind, two wires are clearly visible tugging it off.
  
  
• Continuity: On Sara's first day, when she sees her mother's picture on the wall of the school, a different photograph is used for the close-up.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Sara enters Lavinia's room to light a fire we hear the door close even though it is still open.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Across the foyer from the sitting room, in the school, you can see a music room that has two windows, but from the outside there are no windows. Also, it's impossible for there to be a room to the right of the foyer because on the outside there is not enough room.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When the girl and her father travel from India to the USA, a map is shown describing their route. The year is 1914 but the map is from the 1920s. Before the WWI, Syria and Iraq didn't exist.
  
  
• Continuity: When Sara is explaining to Lottie about angels, she is demonstrating how the angels ride the clouds like magic carpets and is using her right hand. However, in the next shot, when she tells Lottie that the angels hover over you and see that you are all right, her left arm is raised.
  
  
• Continuity: When Sara uses the chalk to draw a circle around herself in the attic room, it is an irregular rectangle-like shape and the candlestick is outside of the circle. When we see Sarah through the window, the circle is a near-perfect shape and it is wide enough that the candlestick fits well within the circle.
  
  
• Continuity: When Miss Minchin introduces Sara to the rest of the class, she then starts saying, "Now, there are certain rules...", and you can see Monsieur Du-Farge taking a cup and saucer from behind his desk twice (each time at a different angle).
  
  
• Continuity: When Sara is scolded for speaking at the breakfast table, the girls are sitting in different positions than they were before Sara came to breakfast.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Minchin is introducing Sarah to her new classmates, Monsieur Dufarge is seen taking a tea cup out of a drawer in his desk. In the next shot, he is seen removing the same tea cup from the drawer again.
  
  
• Continuity: When Sara's shawl is blown off, she goes to retrieve it and stops because of the Ram Dass. When Ram Dass walks away, Sara turns in the opposite direction and doesn't pick up the shawl or the basket, but in the next shot, she has both.
  
  
• Anachronisms: There are many latex balloons as decorations at Sara Crewe's birthday party in 1914 or 1915. However, the modern balloon that you see pictured in the film was not invented until 1931.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Sarah and her father are on the boat coming to America, if you look in the background at night when Sarah and her father are talking and then dancing, the ocean is not moving at all.
  
  
• Continuity: When Sara writes to her father, her narration does not match the actual writing in the letter.
  
  
• Boom mic visible: When Sara is explaining to the little girl having a temper tantrum about the angels, the microphone is clearly visible above them.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When her shawl is blowing down the street, someone wearing a white glove can be seen holding one end of the shawl in one of the shots.
  
  

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