Forrest Gump is a 1994 Oscar Winning film starring Tom Hanks,Robin Wright,Sally Field,Haley Joel Osmont and Garry Sisle.
Directed by Robert Zemeckis(Back To The Future,The Polar Express),the story follows Forrest Gump(Hanks),who is a slow learner with a low I. Q. He is running through childhood with his best and only friend Jenny(Wright). His mother Mrs Gump (Field),teaches him the ways of life and leaves him to choose his own destiny. Forrest decides to join the army for service in Vietnam, finding new friends called Dan(Sinsle) and Bubba(Myketti Williamson), he wins medals, creates a famous shrimp fishing fleet, inspires people to jog, starts a ping-pong craze, creates the smiley, writes bumper stickers and songs, donates to people and meets the president several times.
However, this is all irrelevant to Forrest who can only think of his childhood sweetheart Jenny Curran, who has messed up her life. Although in the end all he wants to prove is that anyone can love?.
Overall it was a good film,overrated but worth a watch. Available now on Netflix.
Directed by Robert Zemeckis(Back To The Future,The Polar Express),the story follows Forrest Gump(Hanks),who is a slow learner with a low I. Q. He is running through childhood with his best and only friend Jenny(Wright). His mother Mrs Gump (Field),teaches him the ways of life and leaves him to choose his own destiny. Forrest decides to join the army for service in Vietnam, finding new friends called Dan(Sinsle) and Bubba(Myketti Williamson), he wins medals, creates a famous shrimp fishing fleet, inspires people to jog, starts a ping-pong craze, creates the smiley, writes bumper stickers and songs, donates to people and meets the president several times.
However, this is all irrelevant to Forrest who can only think of his childhood sweetheart Jenny Curran, who has messed up her life. Although in the end all he wants to prove is that anyone can love?.
Overall it was a good film,overrated but worth a watch. Available now on Netflix.