When Novalee goes into the ladies' room at the library, when she realizes she's not pregnant, her hairstyle changes from a flip when she enters to a straight style when she leaves the bathroom.
When Willy Jack Pickens first meets Ruth Meyers, the capo on his guitar moves from the second fret to the third, then back to the second.
Lexie's car disappears when Ray's car pulls into the abandoned lot. But it reappears moments later when we see Ray approaching Novalee and Lexie.
When Novalee and Lexie are outside folding laundry, and the exterminator guy drives by, Lexie does the final two folds of the sheet twice.
When Novalee visits Forney in his hotel room, when she opens the door, we see that the roses are next to Forney. When it cuts back to him, they are on the opposite side of the bed.
When Novalee is adding what she owes Walmart in her notebook, most of the totals of what she owes are not added correctly. However, Novalee is not very educated, which means she could have done simple mistakes when she was doing the problems.
When Novalee is outside before Sister comes to pick her up, the baby she is holding is obviously a doll. When Sister grabs the baby's hand, the hand springs back, unlike a human baby.
When Novalee comes home from Santa Fe to find Forney and Americus sleeping, Americus is fiddling her fingers indicating she is not in fact sleeping.
The crew is reflected in the red balloon by the hospital bed.
A member of the crews' reflection appears briefly in the mirror when Novalee is shaving her legs in the bathroom at Walmart. It clearly was not Novalee's reflection; as it was the wrong angle.
When Lexie is picking up Novalee on her return from Santa Fe in front of the Stop-N-Shop grocery store, the sign at the top of the store says, "Soda - Wine - Beer - Cigarettes." In Oklahoma during the time this movie was filmed, wine could only sold in liquor stores. It couldn't be sold in grocery stores. In 2016, Oklahoma passed State Question 792, which reformed the state's liquor laws, thus allowing wine to be sold in grocery and convenience stores.
After the tornado when Novalee and Lexi meet up with the lawyer, Lexi is drinking a 7-Eleven super big gulp. The only 7-Elevens in Oklahoma are in the Oklahoma City metro area.
In opening scene of this movie it shows them at a trailer in Tellico Plains, TN which is located in Monroe County. Beside the trailer there is a train going by. There is no train track that runs through Tellico Plains, TN. In Monroe County only Sweetwater, Madisonville, and Vonore have train tracks running through their towns.
Throughout the movie, Novalee has a phobia about the next meet "5." However, she doesn't flinch with Americus being born on the 5th of July.