Girl, Interrupted

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Girl, Interrupted Goofs/Mistakes

Movie Goof (incorrectly regarded as a mistake): At the sanitarium, Daisy always wants laxatives and Colace. She clearly states that she doesn't take Valium and hides those in her teddy bear. When Susanna and Lisa show up at her new apartment, the first thing she asks is, "Do you have Valium?" This is never explained, even after Lisa says, "I thought you didn't do Valium." Daisy may have simply been stating a request, or maybe lying about the taking of Valium, or maybe set it up as an inside joke.
Movie Goof (continuity error): The slits on Daisy's wrist do not appear until Lisa pulls up her robe sleeve. When she asks for the Valium and her wrist is exposed, there are no cuts at all.
Movie Goof (factual errors): "The End of the World" by Skeeter Davis is on Daisy's record player, but the record itself is a Columbia 45 from the early-to-mid-'50s (red label, gold print) when it should be an RCA 45 from 1963, with a black label.
Movie Goof (incorrectly regarded as a mistake): In the taxi when Susanna first goes to Claymoore, she lights a cigarette. Then she jumps into a flashback. When the flashback is over, she lights a cigarette again. There is no sign of the cigarette before the flashback. Given how long the real-time might have taken during the flashback, it's entirely likely that she finished the first, got rid of it, and lit a second.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Susanna is meeting with the psychiatrist in the beginning of the movie, the same black car drives by twice. The same cars are parked in the same places when she enters the mental institution, and leaves a year later.
Movie Goof (anachronisms): When Susanna is first being driven by taxi to the asylum, we see an all blue mailbox through the window. In 1968, mailboxes were red on top, blue on bottom. They weren't painted all blue until the '70s.
Movie Goof (anachronisms): When Susanna is talking to an employee at her high school about her plans for college and her career, she says she's not going to burn her bra, drop acid, or march on Washington. The bra burning story was published in 1968, not 1967 when Susanna was in high school.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): When Lisa goes to take Daisy's money after they have found her hanged, Daisy's eyes move several times.
Movie Goof (errors in geography): When Angelina Jolie is ordering a sundae at the ice cream counter, she asks for "sprinkles", which are known as "jimmies" in the Boston area.
Movie Goof (continuity error): Susanna's signature changes when she is admitted to the hospital. The "S" and the last "a" in "Susanna" are clearly different after she has asked if her parents should sign the form.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Lisa is at the counter ordering her sundae, and she goes to lick the cherry, her tongue is already red from previous takes.
Movie Goof (incorrectly regarded as a mistake): This film was set in 1968 yet after Daisy is taken away after hanging herself it is in a 1970 Cadillac ambulance. This film, and the book it's taken from, actually cover an 18 year gap, and cars are often designated by the year after they come out, so it's very likely that Daisy can be taken away in a 1970 Cadillac.
Movie Goof (anachronisms): At the 1968 party after Susanna & Lisa are picked up in the microbus, The Doors' "Roadhouse Blues", released in 1970, is playing.
Movie Goof (anachronisms): When Lisa and Susannah run away to Daisy's, Lisa talks about going to work at Disney World, which did not open until 1971. The movie takes place in the late 1960's.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): At the point when Susanna is walking through her house during the party, there are extras there. In the background, you can hear, "Look, there's Winona Ryder".
Movie Goof (continuity error): Susanna often writes quotes from other characters in her journal. In one scene we see her write the quote "If you lived here you'd be home by now", but this quote is not said by Daisy until later in the movie.
Movie Goof (anachronisms): Susanna walks past a Robert Kennedy campaign yard sign as she leaves her house to go to the mental hospital. It is fall 1967. Kennedy didn't announce his intention to run for president until March 1968
Movie Goof (incorrectly regarded as a mistake): The girls in the hospital are shown watching The Wizard of Oz during the daytime. In the sixties the "Wizard of Oz" was only broadcast once a year around Easter and only during the evening. Since this movie takes place before the availability of the VCR there's no way they could have been watching this movie during the day, but, since recording devices of the type did exist at that time, and since the original work was not a linear story, it could be that they could simply have it in a different format.
Movie Goof (continuity error): In the scene where Toby visits Susanna at Claymoore, Valerie escorts him to the TV room. Toby and Susanna talk briefly, with Janet observing them nearby in the background, on the left. When both Toby and Susanna exit the room, Janet suddenly appears on the right side.
Movie Goof (continuity error): Susanna's hair When Valerie throws her into the bathtub. It appears almost combed back off of her face, then forward seconds later. She also has more water on her face in the scene a few seconds later.
Movie Goof (anachronisms): The story shows the draft lottery taking place before Martin Luther King is assassinated. King was assassinated in 1968, and the first draft lottery was in December, 1969.
Movie Goof (incorrectly regarded as a mistake): SPOILER: Polly supposedly doused herself in gasoline to get rid of the rash that her new puppy had given her. The probability that she wouldn't be allergic to the cat at the end is highly unlikely. Most people with dog allergies are even more allergic to cats. (Of course, this proves to be false anyway, after Georgina admits to being a pathological liar (she tells Susanna the allergy story), and also when a newspaper clipping reveals that Polly was burned in a school fire.)
Movie Goof (incorrectly regarded as a mistake): SPOILER: Lisa asks Daisy if there is a tub, Daisy replies no. When Daisy Kills herself she is clearly hanging in front of a tub. As Daisy has been portrayed as a notoriously difficult and selfish girl, she could have just been saying she didn't have a tub so that Lisa wouldn't try to use it.