Continuity: When Robert Duvall and Haley Joel Osment are talking by the lake, Hub's and later Haley's blanket repositions itself each time the camera cuts back.

Factual error: In the scene where Haley Joel Osment's character is sitting in front of the gas station, and the uncles are trying to talk him into coming home, the boy is holding a page from the phone book, looking at an area code map. The page says "US WEST" which did not exist in the 50's or 60's and never existed in Texas where the movie was set. US WEST was created in the 80's as a result of the breakup of AT&T and then existed only in the western US.

Continuity: In the scene where Hub fights the young punks, the level of Haley Joel Osments's drink keeps changing.