Forrest Gump

"The world will never be the same once you've seen it through the eyes of Forrest Gump."

1994 2h 22m EN

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8.5

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75%

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METACRITIC

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8.8

IMDB

★8.5TMDB · 30,604🍅75%Rotten Tomatoes●82Metacritic★8.8IMDB · 2,493,306

ComedyDramaRomance

Synopsis

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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.

“The world will never be the same once you've seen it through the eyes of Forrest Gump.”

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Cast

Tom Hanks
Forrest Gump
Robin Wright
Jenny Curran
Gary Sinise
Lieutenant Dan Taylor
Sally Field
Mrs. Gump
Mykelti Williamson
Bubba Blue
Michael Conner Humphreys
Young Forrest Gump
Hanna Hall
Young Jenny Curran
Haley Joel Osment
Forrest Junior

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Robert Zemeckis
Writers: Eric Roth, Erik Tiemens, George Hull
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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Mid-budget at $55M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.

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2 / 8

MONEY

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Grossed $677M — a 12.3× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.

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3 / 8

ERA

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32 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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4 / 8

CAST

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322+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Robert Zemeckis, shot by Don Burgess. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Alan Silvestri. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Arthur Schmidt shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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8 / 8

CAST

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Tom Hanks and Robin Wright and Gary Sinise carry the top of the cast.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Robert Zemeckis directs. Don Burgess behind the camera. Alan Silvestri scores. Arthur Schmidt cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Mid-budget at $55M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.
2Grossed $677M — a 12.3× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.
332 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
4322+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
5Directed by Robert Zemeckis, shot by Don Burgess. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by Alan Silvestri. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor Arthur Schmidt shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Tom Hanks and Robin Wright and Gary Sinise carry the top of the cast.
9Marketing tagline: "The world will never be the same once you've seen it through the eyes of Forrest Gump.".
10IMDB entry: tt0109830 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
11The top-rated still from this film on TMDB has 8 community votes — a signal the frame composition stuck with viewers.
1230,604 TMDB user ratings logged — serious cultural footprint.
13Classified under 32 themes, including "new year's eve", "vietnam war", "vietnam veteran", "mentally disabled".
14Released under 12 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Don Burgess
Original score: Alan Silvestri
Editing: Arthur Schmidt
Production design: Rick Carter
Costume design: Joanna Johnston
Makeup / hair: William A. Kohout
VFX supervisor: Ken Ralston
Sound: Dennis Sands
Stunt coordinator: Bud Davis
Runtime: 142 min · 2h 22m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $55,000,000
Box office: $677,387,716
Return: 1232% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: Forrest Gump (1994)
Rotten Tomatoes: 75% 🍅 Fresh
Metacritic: 82/100
IMDB rating: 8.8/10 · 2,493,306 votes
MPAA: PG-13

Awards

Won 6 Oscars. 51 wins & 74 nominations total

National Board of Review: Top Ten Films
National Board of Review Award for Best Film
Academy Award for Best Visual Effects
Academy Award for Best Film Editing
Amanda Award for Best Foreign Feature Film
Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
Academy Award for Best Actor
Academy Award for Best Director
Academy Award for Best Picture

Individual records documented via Wikidata; the summary above may count more.

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llgolden2023-07-07
★ 10/10
Best movie ever.
bluedevil6672023-07-07
★ 10/10
This is the best movie ever!
CinemaSerf2024-07-23
★ 7/10
"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 a story of a longing for his one true love. "Jenny" (Robin Wright). They've been friends since childhood, but she has a wandering spirit and though his love was requited, it wasn't what he needed. Might there be a future for them, ever? Robert Zemeckis uses a chronology of events in the USA, starting in the 1950s, to create a template for the story of a man who lived through racial tension, war, bullying and emerged the stronger; the more honourable and despite his low IQ was quite capable of putting those more intellectual around him to shame. The photography that cleverly superimposes him into television broadcasts works entertainingly as he gazes bemusedly out onto a audience that is increasingly warming to him. I will admit, I struggled a bit with the running segment towards the end, but Hanks epitomises determination and integrity with Eric Roth's adaptation of the Groom novel allowing plenty of philosophical food for thought whilst having a laugh at scenarios both serious and ridiculous. Like life itself, this film is like a box of chocolates and though I didn't love them all, there were plenty to enjoy and reflect upon.