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Seven Pounds (2008) More at IMDbPro »

• Factual errors: The stack of cards next to the engraver/press are pre-embossed. Pre-embossed cards can not be printed on by any press; they would be mutilated.
  
  
• Continuity: Will Smith's hairline changes from scene to scene.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Emily demonstrates the manually-fed traddle printing machine with a blank stock of paper from the pile, the printout is in full color. The machine can only print one color at a time.
  
  

• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Ben puts his car in "park", but it rolls a few feet before stopping. That is normal for a car with an automatic transmission; put into "park," it will roll a little to take up slack in the transmission.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Ezra answers Ben's call at work, in a close-up you can see the contact lenses used to make him appear blind.
  
  
• Continuity: When Ben drives Emily home from the hospital, the headrest on his seat is fully down. When she storms out of the car at her house, it's part-way up.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Ben and Emily are driving in his car with the dog in the back, the back window is open and the dog puts his head out of the window, but its mouth does not move. If they were really driving, the dog's mouth would move because of the wind.
  
  
• Continuity: When Emily has her first heart attack and is in the hospital, she calls Ben and apologizes for calling "so late at night". All the lights in the hospital are out and it is night outside. However, when you see Ben talking on the phone, it's obvious that it is day time outside because of the sunlight coming in through the window.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Jellyfish can live in captivity as long as the tank they are in is round. Round tanks keep the jellyfish from getting trapped in the edges (from which they can't escape without a water current). In the movie, the tank that Will Smith's character uses for the jellyfish is round, so there is no error.
  
  
• Continuity: When Tim is in the bathtub, the "Don't Touch The Jellyfish" sign is partially obscured by the shower curtain, but in the next shot the shower curtain has moved off the sign.
  
  
• Plot holes: With Emily's heart condition she cannot do strenuous activities, including sometimes walking her dog, yet she is able to engage in sex with Ben.
  
  

• Factual errors: SPOILER: Box jellyfish poison is a neurotoxin, and it is distributed to every part of the body, making Ben's organs unfit for transplant.
  
  
• Factual errors: SPOILER: Ben has the jellyfish in a standard tank for at least a week. Jellyfish die in captivity unless they are in continuously circulating water.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: SPOILER: Ben can hardly walk the same day that the bone marrow transplant, yet he doesn't have a limp later that day. You can see a slight limp when he walks up the stairs to meet Emily. She says she had company the last few of days, so it could be more than one day since the donation.
  
  
• Continuity: SPOILER: When Ben is in the bathtub with the jellyfish near the end of the movie, the amount of ice in the tub changes several times between different angles/shoots. Some times there are lots of ice, other times a bit of ice and other times no ice at all.
  
  
• Factual errors: SPOILER: Will Smith is incorrectly listed in the credits as Ben Thomas. He plays the character Tim Thomas who in the course of the movie impersonates his brother Ben Thomas. Michael Ealy is credited as Ben's brother, when he in fact plays Ben Thomas.
  
  
• Factual errors: SPOILER: Ezra appears to have received an eye transplant and not a corneal transplant. The cornea is a clear lens on top of the iris which is the colored part of the eye which is not transplantable.
  
  
• Factual errors: SPOILER: While being highly venomous, box jellyfish stings are treatable, especially in this case when Ben called 911 ahead of time and slowed his metabolism by lying in ice.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: SPOILER: After Ben donates a kidney to the hockey coach, he is out and about the following day. In reality, with modern minimally invasive kidney donor surgery, donors are up and walking the day of the surgery, and often discharged from the hospital after only 1 or 2 days.
  
  

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