* CriticalDissonance: Rotten Tomatoes puts the critic score at 33% while the audience is 66%.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: Every now and then, we're treated to BackgroundMusic which is apparently meant to sound vaguely like Music/JohnWilliams' ''Harry Potter'' themes.
* TearJerker:
** It's totally sad to watch little Jo getting picked on for not being as far in maths as all of the other kids.
** The moment where Jo's mother first shows symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis.
** After her mother's funeral, she discovers that she kept a story Jo wrote when she was six.
** When JKR looks in the mirror at the end, thinks of the Mirror of Erised and its power to show the "deepest, most desperate desire of your heart" - and sees her mom.
* TookTheBadFilmSeriously: It's noted that Creator/PoppyMontgomery really brings a lot to the role and captures JK Rowling's mannerisms, despite the fact that this is a LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek.