The perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75 who has never thought of himself as disadvantaged, and thanks to his supportive mother.
February 27, 1917 in Floresville, Texas, USA
November 2, 1964 in Laurinburg, North Carolina, USA
17 March 1951, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
29 May 1903, Eltham, Woolwich [now in Greenwich], London, England, UK
1970
17 June 1969, Mt. Airy, North Carolina, USA
9 January 1913, Yorba Linda, California, USA
5 March 1931, New York City, New York, USA
24 August 1953, Hutchinson, Kansas, USA
20 February 1951, Oslo, Norway
28 April 1945, Bossier City, Louisiana, USA
2 August 1964, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA
1943, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
3 May 1953, South Carolina, USA
20 August 1962, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
26 May 1969, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
December 9, 1974 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
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
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
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.
February 17, 2015
A dark and driven work, haunted by violence, cruelty and a sense of the tragically absurd.
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 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.
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.
June 18, 2016
A weirder, darker, and better movie than its reputation suggests.
September 05, 2014
Pulling the supremely naive yet mystically wise Gump off is a feather in Hanks' hat.
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.
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.
