| | | Winner of 6 Academy Awards® including Best Picture.|The world will never be the same once you've seen it through the eyes of Forrest Gump.
Features: DVD, Collector's Edition, Dolby, Digital Audio, English, Dolby Digital (5.1)
Life is like a box of chocolates... Like the movie itself, this line from Forrest Gump became an instant classic and an inspiration to millions of people worldwide.Tom Hanks gives an astonishing performance as Forrest in this acclaimed film from director Robert Zemeckis that rocketed to box-office history and touched the hearts of filmgoers like no other movie. Through three turbulent decades, Forrest rides a tide of events that whisks him from physical disability to stardom, from Vietnam hero to shrimp tycoon, from White House honors to the arms of his one true love. Forrest is the embodiment of an era, an innocent at large in an America that is losing its innocence. His heart knows what his limited IQ cannot. His moral compass never wavers. His triumphs become an inspiration to us all. FORREST GUMP. It's the story of a lifetime.
Editor's Note
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 Hanks' lovably slow-witted character as he finds himself embroiled in situations he can't quite comprehend. Academy Award Nominations: 13, including Best Picture, Best Actor--Tom Hanks, and Best Director. Academy Awards: 6, including Best Picture, Director, Actor and Adapted Screenplay.
Plot Summary
The magical story of Forrest Gump, a sweet-natured idiot savant from rural Alabama. As he goes down the road of life, mouthing pithy and quotable homilies, he encounters luminaries such as John Lennon, Elvis Presley and JFK. But all the while he can't forget one special girl from his childhood...
| Features | Theatrical Trailers | | Seeing Is Believing-11 Visual Effects (Includes 2 Never-Before-Seen Sequences) | | Photo Gallery | | Screen Tests | | The Magic Of Makeup | | Through The Eyes Of Forrest Gump-Sound Design | | Building The World Of Gump-Production Design | | Scene Selection | | Commentary By Robert Zemeckis, Steve Starkey, And Rick Carter | | Through The Eyes Of Forrest Gump-Documentary | | Dolby Digital: English 5.1 Surround, English Dolby Surround, French Dolby Surround | | English Subtitles | | Interactive Menus | | Widescreen Version Enhanced For 16x9 TVs |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Paramount |
| Release Date: 1/25/2005 |
| Running Time: 141 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1994 | | Catalog ID: 156444 | | UPC: 00097361564449 | | Number of Discs: 2 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 2.35:1 |
| Cast & Crew | Gary Sinise | | Robin Wright | | Sally Field | | Tom Hanks | | Mykelti Williamson | | Winston Groom - Based On The Novel By | | Charles Newirth - Co-Producer | | Joanna Johnston - Costumes Designed By | | Robert Zemeckis - Directed By | | Don Burgess - Director of Photography | | Arthur Schmidt - Edited By | | Joel Sill - Executive Music Producer | | Alan Silvestri - Music By | | Wendy Finerman, Steve Tisch, Steve Starkey - Produced By | | Rick Carter - Production Designer | | Eric Roth - Screenplay By |
| Awards |
Oscar (1995) |  | Tom Hanks, Winner, Best Actor | | Robert Zemeckis, Winner, Best Director | | Wendy Finerman, et al., Winner, Best Picture | | Eric Roth, Winner, Best Writing, Screenplay Based On Material From Another Medium | | | Gary Sinise, Nominee, Best Supporting Actor | | | Don Burgess, Nominee, Best Cinematography |
| Memorable Quotes| "Now the really good thing about meetin' the President of the United States is the food." | | "My name's Forrest Gump. People call me Forrest Gump!" ---- Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) | | "Life is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you're gonna get" ---- Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) |
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| | Professional Reviews | Rolling Stone
"FORREST GUMP is a movie heartbreaker of oddball wit and startling grace..." 07/14/1994 p.98-9Sight and Sound
"...A strong sense of narrative coherence....Even more impressive is the use of special effects..." 10/01/1994 p.41-2 New York Times
"...An accomplished feat of cyber-cinema....Hanks's Forrest has an unerring sincerity and charm..." 07/06/1994 p.C9 Los Angeles Times
"...There is magic in FORREST GUMP..." 07/06/1994 p.F1 Chicago Sun-Times
"...A story rich in big laughs and quiet truths..." 07/06/1994 p.33 Rolling Stone 10 of 10
Zemeckis doesn't fall into the trap of using Forrest as an ad for arrested development. He knows the limits of a holy fool who can't understand the hypocrisy of postwar America that this picturesque epic so powerfully reveals. The peace-love pretensions of the '60s are skewered as neatly as the greed decades that follow. But there is something of Forrest that Zemeckis would like to see rub off on us: his capacity for hope. It's an ambitious goal in this age of rampant cynicism. Godspeed. - Peter Travers
San Francisco Chronicle 10 of 10
At its best, Forrest Gump is a gentle, elegiac fantasy about love and trust--a storybook yarn that places Forrest in extraordinary situations, but always returns to essential values of honesty, family and friendship. - Edward Gutthmann
Chicago Sun-Times 10 of 10
Tom Hanks may be the only actor who could have played the role. I can't think of anyone else as Gump, after seeing how Hanks makes him into a person so dignified, so straight-ahead. The performance is a breathtaking balancing act between comedy and sadness, in a story rich in big laughs and quiet truths. - Roger Ebert
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