Forrest Gump (1994)
Average Rating: 7.1/10
Reviews Counted: 63
Fresh: 45 | Rotten: 18
An overly sentimental film with a somewhat problematic message, but its sweetness and charm are occasionally enough to approximate true depth and grace.
Average Rating: 7/10
Critic Reviews: 17
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 6
An overly sentimental film with a somewhat problematic message, but its sweetness and charm are occasionally enough to approximate true depth and grace.
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"Stupid is as stupid does," says Forrest Gump (played by Tom Hanks in an Oscar-winning performance) as he discusses his relative level of intelligence with a stranger while waiting for a bus. Despite his sub-normal IQ, Gump leads a truly charmed life, with a ringside seat for many of the most memorable events of the second half of the 20th century. Entirely without trying, Forrest teaches Elvis Presley to dance, becomes a football star, meets John F. Kennedy, serves with honor in Vietnam, meets
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Cast
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Tom Hanks
Forrest Gump -
Robin Wright
Jenny Curran -
Gary Sinise
Lt. Dan Taylor -
Mykelti Williamson
Bubba Blue -
Sally Field
Mrs. Gump -
Michael Conner Humph...
Young Forrest -
Hanna R. Hall
Young Jenny Curran -
Joe Alaskey
Richard M. Nixon -
Sam Anderson
Principal Hancock -
Geoffrey Blake
Wesley -
Charles Boswell
Aging Hippie -
Michael Burgess
Cleveland -
Dick Cavett
Himself -
Peter Dobson
Young Elvis Presley -
Nora Dunfee
Elderly Southern Wom... -
John William Galt
President Johnson -
Harold G. Herthum
Doctor -
Mike Jolly
Club Patron -
George Kelly
Barber -
Jason McGuire
Fat Teen -
Byron Minns
Wounded Soldier -
Afemo Omilami
Drill Sergeant -
Bob Penny
Cronie -
Paul Raczkowski
Man in VW Bug -
Brett Rice
High School Football... -
Sonny Shroyer
College Football Coa... -
Mary Ellen Trainor
Jenny's Babysitter -
John Voldstad
Club Patron -
Joe Washington
Local Anchor #2 -
Jeffrey Winner
Club Patron -
David Brisbin
Newscaster -
Hallie D'Amore
Waitress in Cafe -
Peter Bannon
Local Correspondent ... -
Stephen Wesley Bridg...
Hospital Officer -
Kevin Davis
Black Panther -
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Siobhan Fallon
School Bus Driver -
Al Harrington
Local Anchor #1 -
Gary Robinson
Bus Recruit -
Haley Joel Osment
Forrest Junior -
Don Fischer
Army Recruiter -
Aaron Michael Lacey
Lt. Venetti -
Valentino
Chinese Ping Pong Pl...
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All Critics (63) | Top Critics (17) | Fresh (45) | Rotten (18) | DVD (32)
This tall tale may reach monumental proportions, but Forrest Gump always keeps its magical airiness and grace.
Top CriticCredit for the success of the film has to start with director Robert Zemeckis, who has taken his Back to the Future and Who Framed Roger Rabbit success and parlayed it into a more mature, yet equally entertaining, film.
Warm, wise, and wearisome as hell.
For all its ambition, the movie ends up using great historical events in the service of a dubious sentimentality.
A picaresque story of a simpleton's charmed odyssey through 30 years of tumultuous American history, Forrest Gump is whimsy with a strong cultural spine.
Judging by the the movie's enduring popularity, the message that stupidity is redemption is clearly what a lot of Americans want to hear.
Largely enjoyable.
One can sneer at it, but one can't ignore it.
All this might have seemed like pressing optimism a bit without the bland but still potent presence of Tom Hanks at its centre, clearly on his way to another Oscar nomination.
The greatest pleasure the picture affords Americans is most likely a sense of relief; Forrest Gump assures us that we've awakened from the nightmare of history; that all is forgiven, and most has already been forgotten.
...not a wishful paean to a fantasy version of America, but a portrait of America - its awfulness and beauty, promise and pain - as seen through the eyes of an innocent.
This Oscar-winner divided critics in its chronicle of the long journey taken by a slow-witted boy through American history and politics, but there was consensus about the high-caliber acting of Hanks, who won a second, consecutive Best Actor Oscar.
Moving and wonderful, but parent preview a good idea.
Even if its success was overblown, so was the backlash.
Forrest may be dumb, but he ain't stupid.
The wearisome Forrest Gump won six Oscars.
Unashamedly sentimental, this is a technically triumphant tear-jerker.
Despite its flaws, this is simply unmissable.
Its flaws don't do it any great harm; it's as comforting as an afternoon nap, but also as refreshing.
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Toeing the centreline like a motherf***er while Rome burns. Can I get an "amen"?
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- Forrest Gump: Jenny, I don't know if Momma was right or if, if it's Lieutenant Dan. I don't know if we have a destiny, or if we're all just floatin' around accidental-like on a breeze, but I, I think maybe it's both. Maybe both is happenin' at the same time.
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- Forrest Gump: Will you marry me?
- Forrest Gump: I'd make a good husband, Jenny?
- Jenny Curran: You would, Forrest?
- Forrest Gump: But you won't marry me?
- Jenny Curran: You don't wanna marry me.
- Forrest Gump: Why don't you love me, Jenny?
- Forrest Gump: I'm not the smart man. But I know what love is.
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- Young Jenny Curran: What's wrong with your legs?
- Young Forrest: Um, nothin' at all, thank you. My legs are just fine and dandy.
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- Forrest Gump: What are you watchin'?
- Forrest Junior: Bert and Ernie.
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- Jenny Curran: Do you think I could fly off this bridge, Forrest?
- Forrest Gump: What do you mean, Jenny?
- Jenny Curran: Nothin'.
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- Jenny Curran: Run! Forest! Run!!!
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