Forrest Gump Summary
MPAA Rating: PG13
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Genres: Comedy Drama
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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 Lyndon_Johnson, speaks at an anti-war rally at the Washington Monument, hangs out with the Yippies, defeats the Chinese national team in table tennis, meets Richard_Nixon, discovers the break-in at the Watergate, opens a profitable shrimping business, becomes an original investor in Apple Computers, and decides to run back and forth across the country for several years. Meanwhile, as the remarkable parade of his life goes by, Forrest never forgets Jenny (Robin_Wright_Penn), the girl he loved as a boy, who makes her own journey through the turbulence of the 1960s and 1970s that is far more troubled than the path Forrest happens upon. Featured alongside Tom_Hanks are Sally_Field as Forrest's mother; Gary_Sinise as his commanding officer in Vietnam; Mykelti_Williamson as his ill-fated Army buddy who is familiar with every recipe that involves shrimp; and the special effects artists whose digital magic place Forrest amidst a remarkable array of historical events and people. Mark Deming, Rovi
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