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Forrest Gump

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Forrest Gump (1994)

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Reviews Counted: 50

Fresh: 36

Rotten:14

Average Rating: 7/10

Consensus: An overly sentimental film with a somewhat problematic message, but its sweetness and charm are occasionally enough to approximate true depth and grace.

Runtime: 2 hrs 37 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: The title character leads viewers through an accidental travelogue of American social history from the early 1960s through the present in this revisionist fable. Vietnam, desegregation, Watergate,... The title character leads viewers through an accidental travelogue of American social history from the early 1960s through the present in this revisionist fable. Vietnam, desegregation, Watergate, and more are presented from the perspective of Tom Hanks's loveably slow-witted Forrest Gump as he finds himself embroiled in situations he can't quite comprehend. Hanks leads an excellent cast, featuring Robin Wright Penn as Jenny, Forrest's lifelong love; Gary Sinise as the irascible Lt. Dan, his Vietnam superior; Mykelti Williamson as Bubba, a shrimp-loving soldier; and Sally Fields as his devoted mother. Robert Zemeckis's emotional, heartwarming film garnered 13 Academy Award nominations and six wins, including Best Picture, Director, Actor--Tom Hanks, and Adapted Screenplay. [More]

Starring: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Mykelti Williamson

Starring: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Mykelti Williamson, Sally Field, David Brisbin, Haley Joel Osment

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Director: Robert Zemeckis
Screenwriter: Eric Roth
Composer: Alan Silvestri
Studio: Paramount Pictures

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Unashamedly sentimental, this is a technically triumphant tear-jerker.

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
02/20/08
Channel 4 Film
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Despite its flaws, this is simply unmissable.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
02/20/08
Angie Errigo
Empire Magazine
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As this mawkish conservative movie ultimately goes to prove: ignorance is bliss.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
01/26/06
Time Out
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It could be said that Forrest Gump is the definitive American movie.

Full Review Source: BBC | comment Comment
01/01/00
Ben Falk
BBC
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Full Review Source: Newsweek | comment Comment
05/12/08
David Ansen
Newsweek

The wearisome Forrest Gump won six Oscars.

Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | comment 9 Comments
03/10/08
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Its flaws don't do it any great harm; it's as comforting as an afternoon nap, but also as refreshing.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
02/13/08
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com

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.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
01/28/08
Todd McCarthy
Variety
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See website for more details.

Full Review Source: Screen It! | comment Comment
09/19/07
Rory L. Aronsky
Screen It!

Toeing the centreline like a motherf***er while Rome burns. Can I get an "amen"?

Full Review Source: Film Freak Central | comment 13 Comments
05/23/07
Walter Chaw
Film Freak Central

A vile, irresponsible film whose massive success says some very frightening things about America.

comment 15 Comments
03/02/07
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

Zemeckis's film has lots of heart but little in the way of guts or brains.

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02/05/07
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Judging by the the movie's enduring popularity, the message that stupidity is redemption is clearly what a lot of Americans want to hear.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment 24 Comments
02/05/07
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader

A great film.

Full Review Source: Mr. Brown's Movies | comment Comment
01/13/04
Michael Dequina
Mr. Brown's Movies

This film is both serious and funny, entertaining and thought-provoking and it could make people laugh and cry with equal degree of ease.

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12/16/03
Dragan Antulov
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A long lovely movie with Hanks playing a sort of goofy Everyman who shows that any of us can make it if we simply persist.

Full Review Source: Zap2it.com | comment Comment
10/17/03
Michael Szymanski
Zap2it.com

Forrest Gump has the elements of an emotionally gripping story. Yet it feels less like a romance than like a coffee-table book celebrating the magic of special effects.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment 5 Comments
05/28/03
Stephen Holden
New York Times
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The press kit says Gump brings a rare clarity to what we went through in the '50s, '60s and '70s. But I only saw a pitiful stooge taking the pie of life in the face, thoughtfully licking his fingers.

Full Review Source: Palo Alto Weekly | comment Comment
05/20/03
Marc Vincenti
Palo Alto Weekly

The good-natured humor is wonderful in the film, but the thing that makes it so entertaining is how it hits all the human emotions dead-center without resorting to cheap melodrama.

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03/27/03
Robert Roten
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02/19/03
Rob Blackwelder
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