Forrest Gump
The movie follows Forrest Gump, a simple man with a low I.Q. but good intentions. 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,etc.
20 November 1925, Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
17 March 1955, Blue Island, Illinois, USA
11 December 1985, Los Angeles, California, USA
1943, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
13 December 1950, Petersburg, Virginia, USA
17 June 1956, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
July 10, 2016
Tries very hard to be all things to all people, and as a result fails to be anything at all.
February 23, 2016
It's a lovely and wise story told with honesty and acted out with unassuming grace. To his collection of medals, trophies and kudos, Forrest Gump should add an Oscar or two.
January 07, 2014
It's most successful when it is being off-center, a state of grace it doesn't quite have the nerve to maintain.
September 05, 2014
Forrest Gump is never sure of what it is or what it wants to be.
January 07, 2014
Good as Wright and Sinise are in their roles as Forrest's near-suicidal soulmates, the movie always comes back to Hanks, and director Robert Zemeckis helps him to achieve some of his finest emotional moments.
September 03, 2014
So afraid to dredge up debate that when Forrest is handed a mic at an antiwar rally, someone unplugs the speakers so we can't hear him - fitting for a movie with nothing to say.
January 07, 2014
The movie's technical tricks are great fun, as is its musical soundtrack, which captures the essences of the eras it traverses. But when you come right down to it, it's the oddly magnetic personality of Forrest himself that is the biggest draw.
January 07, 2014
This isn't the meaningful movie it pretends to be. But as a goofy entertainment that speeds through the latter half of the 20th century, stopping here and there to snap a photo or two, Forrest Gump does just fine.
June 18, 2016
A weirder, darker, and better movie than its reputation suggests.
September 05, 2014
Pulling the supremely naive yet mystically wise Gump off is a feather in Hanks' hat.
February 17, 2015
A dark and driven work, haunted by violence, cruelty and a sense of the tragically absurd.
September 14, 2014
For its 20th anniversary, 'Forrest Gump' is being rereleased for one week in the IMAX format nationwide, including at Rave Cinemas, Davenport. Here is my review from July 1994: Garp + Zelig x Chance = Gump.
