Goofs

The woman character has her tube removed after it being in her throat for roughly 90 days, then suddenly is talking and AOK. However removing a tube from the throat leaves it very irritated a condition called laryngeal trauma. Under these conditions it would have taken her weeks to recover her normal voice.

The "puppies" used in the movie are actually chihuahuas.

As Gabby studies, she quizzes her dog "Do you know how many liters of blood the circulatory system processes per day on average?" She answers herself "Twenty! That's right!"

Gabby is incorrect. A person has about 5 liters of blood. If Gabby was right, then the entire volume of blood only circulates four times in a day, or once every six hours. The correct figure is about 6,000 liters a day.

The Moon at the ending of the movie is incorrectly sized for the night sky. It should be larger than it appears.

The newborn puppies appear to be several weeks old rather than a few hours.

Despite spending months in the hospital, Gabby's skin never loses its tan.

In the last hospital scene when Travis returns and the hospital staff are leaning against the wall leading to Gabby's room, the nurse puts her right hand over heart, there is a white male facing her, but a black right-handed arm reaches out to her left shoulder. It is not clear who this arm belongs to.

Flashback is 7 years, making the eldest child no more than 6, but their eldest is much older than 6. One fact is that the youngest can read the storybook as if he's at least 7....

When Travis has dinner at Gabby's house, he selects an LP, looking at both sides of the cover before taking out the disc and placing it on a phonograph. The song that plays is "Terrible Love" by The National. Although that album was released on vinyl, and the first track was "Terrible Love," the sleeve of that album looks nothing like the sleeve seen in the movie, and the vinyl disc should either have been purple or black with a purple label (the album title is "High Violet"), neither of which is shown in the film. The album used for filming actually looks like something released in the 50s or 60s, which is consistent with what Travis is saying about the elderly couple who recently moved out of that house (which Gabby is leasing). Also, the "High Violet" vinyl release was a 2-disc set, not a single album. Also, also, assuming the film begins "present day" (early 2016), the subsequent flashback took the story back "7 years earlier" which would make it early summer of 2009 when Gabby invites Travis over for dinner. "High Violet" wasn't released until May of 2010.

At the beginning of the movie, Travis drives his boat along the Intracoastal Waterway and docks at the Dockside restaurant, on the Wilmington side of the channel. He apparently then walks to the hospital, which is on 17th Street, about 10 miles away.

Travis attends a carnival which is said to be at "Wrightsville." There is no carnival in Wrightsville or at Wrightsville Beach, but there is a standing carnival every summer between Memorial Day and Labor Day at nearby Carolina Beach.