Rating: PG13
Genre:
Comedy Drama
Release Date: 08/28/2001
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD5.1/DDS
Run Time: 251 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Sexual Situations, Drug Content, War Violence, Suitable for Teens
Distributor/Studio: Paramount
"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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