Unashamedly sentimental, this is a technically triumphant tear-jerker.
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02/20/08
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,... [More]
Starring: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Mykelti Williamson
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Reviews for Forrest Gump
Top CriticDespite its flaws, this is simply unmissable.
02/20/08
Top CriticAs this mawkish conservative movie ultimately goes to prove: ignorance is bliss.
01/26/06
Top CriticIt could be said that Forrest Gump is the definitive American movie.
01/01/00
Top CriticForrest may be dumb, but he ain't stupid.
11/04/09
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05/12/08
The wearisome Forrest Gump won six Oscars.
03/10/08
Its flaws don't do it any great harm; it's as comforting as an afternoon nap, but also as refreshing.
02/13/08
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.
01/28/08
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09/19/07
Toeing the centreline like a motherf***er while Rome burns. Can I get an "amen"?
05/23/07
A vile, irresponsible film whose massive success says some very frightening things about America.
03/02/07
Zemeckis's film has lots of heart but little in the way of guts or brains.
02/05/07
Top CriticJudging by the the movie's enduring popularity, the message that stupidity is redemption is clearly what a lot of Americans want to hear.
02/05/07
A great film.
01/13/04
This film is both serious and funny, entertaining and thought-provoking and it could make people laugh and cry with equal degree of ease.
12/16/03
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.
10/17/03
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.
05/28/03
Top CriticThe 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.
05/20/03
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.
03/27/03
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