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About halfway into the film, in the shot of Will Smith and his son walking down the downtown sidewalk, a late model Saturn car can be seen in the distance behind them making a turn at the street corner. This car did not exist during the time frame of the movie. See more...

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In the last scene of the movie when Chris and his son are crossing the street and telling jokes, they pass a man in a suit who gives them a brief nod. This is a cameo appearance from the real Chris Gardner. See more...

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The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) - 5 corrections

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In the scene where Chris and his son are in the homeless shelter for the first time. The shot is where Chris is reading the book in his room using the limited light from the window while his son is sleeping. Chris turns a page from left to right. This would indicate that he is reading the book backwards. [Chris is reading the manual for the machine he needs to repair, and therefore it is totally plausible that he was flipping the pages backward, perhaps looking for the section he needed.]

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Will Smith's son is given a basketball as a gift. Later on, when he tells his son they are gonna go back home, he says, "We are gonna get you home to your football." [Totally plausible as a character mistake. His concern wasn't the fact that it was one ball over another, just that his son was placated and felt important.]

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In the scene where Chris gives blood, the collection bag is labeled "Volunteer Donor" when he is is doing it for cash. [You still volunteer to give blood, even if you're paid. Like the American military; it's a volunteer armed service, but you still get paid for being in it.]

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When Will Smith is taking his son to daycare and they are talking about nicknames he made reference to Bonanza and Love Boat as shows that he watches during daycare. I don't believe those shows were on during the daytime in 1981. And it wasn't a daycare that ran during the night too otherwise Will Smith wouldn't have been so worried about his wife/girlfriend picking up their son before dinner. [I remember watching Bonanza in the late morning/early afternoon when I was a child, around that same time. And, though I never watched it, there's no reason Love Boat couldn't have been on as well.]

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When Chris doing the Rubik's Cube is a tribute to "The Fresh Prince of Bellaire" episode where Will gets into Princeton by solving a Rubik's Cube. [This is just simply wrong. The movie was set roughly 10 years before "The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air" (check your spelling) The Rubik's Cube was a brand new toy back when this movie was set, in the early '80s. The Cube signified Chris' ability and willingness to never give up.]

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