

Forrest Gump
The perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75 who has never thought of himself as disadvantaged, and thanks to his ive mother.

















29 May 1903, Eltham, Woolwich [now in Greenwich], London, England, UK



4 April 1940, Jackson, Mississippi, USA



10 April 1922, Beaufort, South Carolina, USA

8 October 1930, Sonoma County, California, USA

24 April 1973, Devens, Massachusetts, USA

29 May 1917, Brookline, Massachusetts, USA


24 December 1955, Los Angeles, California, USA



10 November 1962, Los Angeles, California, USA


3 May 1953, South Carolina, USA


15 October 1923, Alberhill, California, USA

1943, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

27 August 1908, Stonewall, Texas, USA


13 July 1962, Paterson, New Jersey, USA

11 May 1960, Massapequa, Long Island, New York, USA



17 June 1969, Mt. Airy, North Carolina, USA


8 December 1953, Long Island, New York, USA






















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.
September 05, 2014
Forrest Gump is never sure of what it is or what it wants to be.
September 05, 2014
Pulling the supremely naive yet mystically wise Gump off is a feather in Hanks' hat.
June 18, 2016
A weirder, darker, and better movie than its reputation suggests.
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.
July 10, 2016
Tries very hard to be all things to all people, and as a result fails to be anything at all.
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.
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.
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.
February 17, 2015
A dark and driven work, haunted by violence, cruelty and a sense of the tragically absurd.