Release date: July 6, 1994 (USA)
Awards: Academy Award for Best Picture, Academy Award for Best Actor, Academy Award for Best Director, Golden Globe Award for Best Drama Film, Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay, Academy Award for Visual Effects, Academy Award for Film Editing, Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Film, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Drama Film, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role, National Board of Review Award for Best Film, BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects, Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor, National Board of Review Award for Best Actor, DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film, Funniest Actor In A Motion Picture (Leading Role), PGA Producer of the Year Award for Motion Picture Producer of the Year,People's Choice Award for Favorite Movie, Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor, People's Choice Award for Favorite Drama Movie,People's Choice Award for Favorite Actor in a Dramatic Motion Picture,Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor
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While waiting at a bus stop, Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) begins telling his life story to various strangers sitting near him on the bench, the first being a young woman. His story begins with the leg braces he had to wear as a child, which resulted in him being bullied by other children. He lives with his mother (Sally Field), who tells him that "stupid is as stupid does." His mother runs a rooming house and Forrest teaches one of their guests, a young Elvis Presley, a hip-swinging dance. On a bus for his first day of school, Forrest meets Jenny (Robin Wright), with whom he immediately falls in love, and they become best friends. One day, while fleeing from some bullies, Forrest's leg braces break apart and fall away and he discovers that he can run very fast which, despite his below-average intelligence, earns him a scholarship to the University of Alabama from Bear Bryant. While in college, he witnesses George Wallace's Stand in the Schoolhouse Door, is named an All-Americanfootball player, and meets President John F. Kennedy. At this point, the young woman goes on her bus and is soon followed by a woman and her child.
After graduating, Forrest enlists in the United States Army, where he becomes friends with Benjamin Buford "Bubba" Blue (Mykelti Williamson), and they agree to go into the shrimping business together. They are sent to Vietnam, and while on patrol, their platoon is ambushed. Forrest saves four of the men in his platoon, including platoon leader 2nd Lt. Dan Taylor (Gary Sinise), but Bubba is killed. Here it is shown that the current listener is a middle-aged man. Forrest himself is shot in the butt and receives the Medal of Honor from President Lyndon B. Johnson. While recovering from his injuries Forrest meets Lt. Dan again, who has had to have both of his legs amputated below the knees due to his wounds. As such, Lt. Dan is furious at Forrest for leaving him a "cripple" and cheating him out of his destiny to die in an American war like all of his ancestors. In Washington, Forrest is swept up in an anti-war rally at the National Mall and is reunited with Jenny, who is now part of the hippie counterculture movement. They spend the night walking around the capital, but she leaves with her abusive boyfriend the following day.
Forrest discovers an aptitude for ping pong and begins playing for the U.S. Army team, eventually competing against Chinese teams on a goodwill tour. He goes to the White House again and meets President Richard Nixon who provides him a room at the Watergate hotel, where Forrest inadvertently helps expose the Watergate scandal. For his numerous accomplishments, Forrest is invited onto The Dick Cavett Show alongside John Lennon, and helps inspire Lennon's song "Imagine". He again encounters Lt. Dan, who is now an embittered drunk living on welfare. Dan is scornful of Forrest's plans to enter the shrimping business and mockingly promises to be Forrest's first mate if he ever succeeds. As the night goes on, Forrest thinks about Jenny and what she is doing. Unbeknownst to him even in the present, Jenny is living life on the edge of self-destruction, having been with countless men and become addicted toheroin; she even considers suicide that night, but decides against it at the last minute.
Forrest is discharged from the military and using money from a ping pong endorsement, Forrest buys a shrimping boat, fulfilling his wartime promise to Bubba, and names it "Jenny". Dan keeps his own promise and joins Forrest as first mate. They initially have little luck, but after Hurricane Carmen destroys every other shrimping boat in the region, the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company becomes a huge success due to the elimination of competition. Having had an epiphany during the hurricane, Dan finally thanks Forrest for saving his life. Forrest then returns home to care for his ailing mother, who dies soon afterwards. Forrest leaves the company in the hands of Dan, who invests their wealth in shares of a "fruit company" (Apple Computer), making them both millionaires. Eventually, their investments result in the creation of the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company; the middle-aged man doesn't believe this and leaves, laughing, and is soon followed by an intrigued senior woman who listens to Forrest for the rest of the story.
Jenny returns to visit Forrest and stays with him. He proposes but she turns him down. Later in the evening Jenny visits Forrest and they make love, but she quietly slips away the next morning. Distraught, Forrest decides to go for a run, which turns into a three-year coast-to-coast marathon. Forrest becomes a celebrity, attracting a band of followers and inspiring a number of failing entrepreneurs to success. One day he stops suddenly and returns home. He receives a letter from Jenny asking to meet, which brings him to the bus stop where he began telling his story. Once they are reunited, Forrest discovers they have a young son, also named Forrest (Haley Joel Osment). Jenny reveals that she is suffering from an unknown virus. She proposes to him and he accepts, and they return to Alabama with Forrest Jr. and marry. The wedding is attended by Lt Dan, who now has prosthetic legs and a fiancee. However, Jenny dies soon after. Forrest waits with Forrest Jr. for the bus to pick him up for his first day of school, and sits on the same tree stump where his mother sat on his first day of school, and watches his feather bookmark float off in the wind.
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