Forrest Gump (1994)

Cast

• Tom Hanks Forrest Gump
• Robin Wright Jenny Curran
• Gary Sinise Lieutenant Dan Taylor
• Sally Field Mrs. Gump
• Mykelti Williamson Bubba Blue
• Michael Conner Humphreys Young Forrest Gump
• Hanna Hall Young Jenny Curran
• Haley Joel Osment Forrest Junior
• Siobhan Fallon Hogan School Bus Driver
• Rebecca Williams Nurse at Park Bench
• Bob Penny Crony
• Harold G. Herthum Doctor
• George Kelly Barber
• John Randall Crony
• Sam Anderson Principal Hancock
• Margo Moorer Louise
• Ione M. Telech Elderly Woman
• Christine Seabrook Elderly Woman's Daughter
• John Worsham Southern Gentleman / Landowner
• Peter Dobson Young Elvis Presley

Crew

Director

Robert Zemeckis

Director of Photography

Don Burgess

Editor

Arthur Schmidt

Novel

Winston Groom

Original Music Composer

Alan Silvestri

Producer

Wendy Finerman

Producer

Steve Tisch

Producer

Steve Starkey

Screenplay

Eric Roth

Details

Budget

$55,000,000

Revenue

$677,387,716

Homepage

https://www.paramountmovies.com/movies/forrest-gump

IMDb

tt0109830

TMDB

13

Keywords

• 1960s
• 1970s
• alabama
• america
• anti war protest
• autism
• based on novel or book
• black panther party
• bus stop
• chameleon
• college american football
• dramatic
• drug addiction
• family relationships
• feelgood
• friendship
• hippie
• mentally disabled
• military
• mother son relationship
• new year's eve
• optimism
• optimistic
• parent child relationship
• post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)
• simpleton
• single mother
• single parent
• usa president
• vietnam veteran
• vietnam war
• waitress
• washington dc, usa

Videos

• "Bubba" Clip Clip
• "Football" Clip Clip
• "Life Is Like a Box of Chocolates" Full Scene Clip
• "Momma"Clip Clip
• "New Year's Eve Party" Full Scene Clip
• "Shrimp is the Fruit of the Sea" Clip Clip
• Happy July Fourth! Clip
• Ping Pong Clip
• Run, Forrest, Run! Clip
• Theatrical Trailer (35mm) Trailer

Reviews

CinemaSerf · ★ 7 · 2024-07-23

"Forrest" (Tom Hanks) isn't the sharpest tool in the box, but he has an heart of gold and an unparalleled sense of human decency. These laudable characteristics are the result of an upbringing by his mother (Sally Field) which has seen him grow from the bullied young boy from Alabama who discovers that he can run a little faster than your average bear, to a sort of national hero. We learn all this from him as he sits at a bus stop chatting to an initially disinterested nurse, and then to a collection of fellow travellers who learn of his drafting to Vietnam. That's where he meets "Lt. Dan" (Gary Sinese) and his new best friend "Bubba" (Mykelti Williamson) and where his innate sense of what's right saves lives and earns him the plaudits of a grateful nation (and gets his butt-ox on television too!). His army days taught him much, but nothing so useful as a skill at table tennis. Soon on the American ping-pong squad in China, he manages to get an endorsement that allows him to reunite with the hippified, now paraplegic and disillusioned "Lt. Dan" and make a mint shrimp fishing, before returning home to face some fairly predicable family trauma. All of this has been happening against a story of a longing for his one true love. "Jenny" (Robin Wright). They've been friends since childhood, but she has a wandering spirit and though his love was requited, it wasn't what he needed. Might there be a future for them, ever? Robert Zemeckis uses a chronology of events in the USA, starting in the 1950s, to create a template for the story of a man who lived through racial tension, war, bullying and emerged the stronger; the more honourable and despite his low IQ was quite capable of putting those more intellectual around him to shame. The photography that cleverly superimposes him into television broadcasts works entertainingly as he gazes bemusedly out onto a audience that is increasingly warming to him. I will admit, I struggled a bit with the running segment towards the end, but Hanks epitomises determination and integrity with Eric Roth's adaptation of the Groom novel allowing plenty of philosophical food for thought whilst having a laugh at scenarios both serious and ridiculous. Like life itself, this film is like a box of chocolates and though I didn't love them all, there were plenty to enjoy and reflect upon.

bluedevil667 · ★ 10 · 2023-07-07

This is the best movie ever!

llgolden · ★ 10 · 2023-07-07

Best movie ever.

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