Cinema
Forrest Gump
Robert Zemeckis · 1994
Synopsis
At a bus stop bench in Savannah, Forrest Gump tells his life story to strangers. As a child in Greenbow, Alabama, in the fifties, he wears leg braces, and his IQ is judged too low for public school; from the first day he becomes friends with Jenny. Running away from boys who bully him, he discovers that he runs very fast and joins the University of Alabama football team. Enlisted in the army, he befriends Bubba, who dreams of shrimp fishing, and serves in Vietnam, while Jenny keeps slipping away from him.
Context
The screenplay is by Eric Roth, based on a book by Winston Groom. Tom Hanks is inserted into television archive footage, where he appears to shake hands with Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon, and some fifteen hundred extras were multiplied by image processing to form the crowds of the big scenes. The budget reached fifty-five million dollars. Zemeckis worked with Hanks again on several films, and thirty years later on a film in which a digital process made the actor and Robin Wright look younger.
Who it is for
A film of two hours twenty-two minutes, suitable for all audiences, which follows its character from childhood to adulthood.
Prizes and reception
Six Oscars in 1995, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor, and around six hundred and seventy-eight million dollars in box-office receipts.
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