The world will never be the same once you've seen it through the eyes of Forrest Gump.
A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events—in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. But despite all he has achieved, his one true love eludes him.
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Epic, earnest, effortless and meticulous.
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- earnestironic
- effortlessdemanding
- rawmeticulous
- contemporarynostalgic
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Reviews
- ruthless_ruthThe Provocateur½
A film that turns thirty years of American history into a man being nice at it. Beautifully made propaganda for not thinking. The box of chocolates line is doing more harm than most laws.
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- llgoldenon TMDB · Jul 202310/10
Best movie ever.
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This is the best movie ever!
Read the whole review on TMDB - CinemaSerfon TMDB · Jul 20247/10
"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
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Cast
- Tom HanksForrest Gump
- Robin WrightJenny Curran
- Gary SiniseLieutenant Dan Taylor
- Sally FieldMrs. Gump
- Mykelti WilliamsonBubba Blue
- Michael Conner HumphreysYoung Forrest Gump
- Hanna HallYoung Jenny Curran
- Haley Joel OsmentForrest Junior
- Siobhan Fallon HoganSchool Bus Driver
- Rebecca WilliamsNurse at Park Bench
Crew
- Robert ZemeckisDirector
- Eric RothScreenplay
- Winston GroomNovel
- Don BurgessDirector of Photography
- Alan SilvestriOriginal Music Composer
- Arthur SchmidtEditor
- Wendy FinermanProducer
- Steve StarkeyProducer
- Steve TischProducer
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