Tom Hanks is the magic that made Forrest Gump the success it is, even though it in turn made him an asshole. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. As a two-DVD set, Forrest Gump feels a bit thin, but mostly just because of the insipidly fawning tone of its supplements. Certain items can take longer to source than the estimated week, particularly during busy trading periods and may take longer to arrive at our warehouse.

In 1981, Forrest gets a letter from Jenny, asking him to visit her, which is why he has been waiting at the bus stop. David Alan Grier, Ice Cube and Dave Chappelle were offered the role of Benjamin Buford Blue, but all three turned it down. Forrest Gump held the record for being the highest-grossing Paramount film until it was taken by Titanic three years later in 1997. On his first day of school, Forrest meets a girl named Jenny Curran, and the two become best friends.On the other commentary track producer Wendy Finerman speaks lovingly and without perspective about the project she shepherded through production from its inception. In addition to skipping some parts of the novel, the film adds several aspects to Gump's life that do not occur in the novel, such as his needing leg braces as a child and his run across the United States. Before he tried to change the world with every leading role, Hanks possessed a brilliant combo of affability and sharp humor that enlivened unambitious fare like Bachelor Party and Punchline, and his Gump is empathetic despite being drowned in sap-sucking manipulation and thematic misinterpretation. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. S. Tom's daughter Elizabeth Hanks appears in the movie as the girl on the school bus who refuses to let young Forrest ( Michael Conner Humphreys) sit next to her.

Film critic Pauline Kael came out of retirement to bash the film on a book tour; by year's end, New York Times reviewer Janet Maslin had gone from mildly praising the film in her initial review to putting it on her worst of 1994 list, describing Forrest as a "hollow man" who's 'self-congratulatory in his blissful ignorance, warmly embraced as the embodiment of absolutely nothing.Forrest saves several others, including Lieutenant Dan, who loses both of his lower legs, while Forrest is shot "in the buttocks. Back to the Future), most of his filmography reads like a how-to course in screwball bombast and technical trickery. This unknown disease was intended by Winston Groom, the author of the original novel, to be Hepatitis C, itself an "unknown virus" until defined in April 1989, [6] [7] although some of the makers of the film have said that they intended for the unknown disease to have been HIV/AIDS.