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Forrest Gump is a movie heart-breaker of oddball wit and startling grace. There's talk of another Oscar for Tom Hanks, who is unforgettable as the sweet-natured, shabbily treated simpleton of the title. The Academy is a sucker for honoring afflicted heroes. In Hollywood, it's always raining rain men. Credit Hanks for not overplaying his hand. He brings a touching gravity to the role of an idiot savant from the South who finds strength in God, country, his childhood pal, Jenny (Robin Wright), and his good mama (Sally Field).
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A picaresque story of a simpleton's charmed odyssey through 30 years of tumultuous American history, "Forrest Gump" is whimsy with a strong cultural spine. Elegantly made and winningly acted by Tom Hanks in his first outing since his Oscar-winning "Philadelphia" performance, Robert Zemeckis' technically dazzling new film is ... shrewdly packaged to hit baby boomers where they live. Pic offers up a non-stop barrage of emotional and iconographic identification points that will make the postwar generation feel they're seeing their lives passing by onscreen. Paramount's target audience is obvious, and boffo B.O. should ensue.
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The soundtrack from Forrest Gump had a variety of music from the 50s, 60s, 70s, and early 80s performed by American artists. It went on to sell 12 million copies, and is one of the top selling albums in the United States[10] In addition, an album featuring only the score by Alan Silvestri was released as well.
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"Stupid is as stupid does," says Forrest Gump (played by Tom Hanks in an Oscar-winning performance) as he discusses his relative level of intelligence with a stranger while waiting for a bus. Despite his sub-normal IQ, Gump leads a truly charmed life, with a ringside seat for many of the most memorable events of the second half of the 20th century. Entirely without trying, Forrest teaches Elvis Presley to dance, becomes a football star, meets John F. Kennedy, serves with honor in Vietnam, meets Lyndon Johnson, speaks at an anti-war rally at the Washington Monument, hangs out with the Yippies, defeats the Chinese national team in table tennis, meets Richard Nixon, discovers the break-in at the Watergate, opens a profitable shrimping business, becomes an original investor in Apple Computers, and decides to run back and forth across the country for several years. Meanwhile, as the remarkable parade of his life goes by, Forrest never forgets Jenny (Robin Wright Penn), the girl he loved as a boy, who makes her own journey through the turbulence of the 1960s and 1970s that is far more troubled than the path Forrest happens upon. Featured alongside Tom Hanks are Sally Field as Forrest's mother; Gary Sinise as his commanding officer in Vietnam; Mykelti Williamson as his ill-fated Army buddy who is familiar with every recipe that involves shrimp; and the special effects artists whose digital magic place Forrest amidst a remarkable array of historical events and people. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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Forrest Gump starts out well enough, but soon drops into conformity. A feather lightly drifts down and lands at the foot of a man. He is sitting at a bus stop, waiting for his ride. A woman gets off one of the busses and sits down. Forrest Gump." And so starts a film that will go absolutely nowhere in its 142 minute run. Forrest (Hanks) now delves into a long flashback that begins when he was just a young kid. Young Forrest (Michael Conner Humphreys) has a problem with both of his legs and needs to wear braces that make him waddle like a duck.
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Forrest Gump (Michael Humphreys) was born with a muscle disorder that limited the mobility of his legs. Because he wore braces on them, he was often the source of ridicule as a boy. It was during these awkward years that he first met the girl who would turn out to be the love of his life, Jenny Curran (Hanna Hall). Inseparable as kids, Forrest and Jenny did everything together, but when the bullies would come to pick on him, she always told him to run away as fast as he could. Naturally, he wasn't terribly quick in the leg braces, but one day as he was running they just fell right off of him. The doctors had told him it would never be so, but Forrest never wore the braces again.
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