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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 .. Read more
| Starring | Tom Hanks, Sam Anderson, Sally Field, Gary Sinise |
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| Director | Robert Zemeckis |
| Genres | Drama |
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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.
| Starring | Tom Hanks, Sam Anderson, Sally Field, Gary Sinise, Robin Wright, Mykelti Williamson, Hanna R. Hall, Rebecca Williams, Bob Penny, John Randell, Robin Wright Penn, Michael Conner Humphreys, Peter Bannon |
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| Director | Robert Zemeckis |
| Studio | PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 16 mins Blu-ray: 2 hrs 16 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | American Film Institute's top 100, Best Picture Oscar Winners |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English Blu-ray: English |
| Dubbed | German, Czech |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | DVD: Czech, English, German, Hungarian, Polish, Turkish Blu-ray: Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish |
| Released | Production year: 1994 To Rent: DVD: 05 Nov 2001 Blu-ray: 09 Nov 2009 |
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A slick comedy as simple-minded as its hero, worth watching for the clever manner in which it slots Gump into the same historical frame as Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon. He remains a blank on which an audience can project any feelings it chooses, while the f
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Life is like a box of chocolates
Forrest is a purely innocent, well-meaning individual, and there can be no fault found in him. It's the rest of the world that is realistic, impure, and ... read more »
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totally brilliant
I wanted to see this film just so I can say I've seen it, because there was so much talk about how good it was and I wanted to see for myself, and I'm ... read more »
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FIlm of the Year (in 1994)
This movie is a propper beast! Loved it, even had a 'Forrest Gump' party in honour of how super this film is.
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bluray rental?
So where is the bluray rental? There seems to be a lot of films not available on bluray, think i won't carry on once my years up
It wasn’t so long ago that we were celebrating the centenary of cinema - well, 1994 doesn’t feel long ago to me, some of you probably weren’t even born then. The movies had reached triple figures, and as many commentators pointed out, the fundamentals of the business hadn’t really changed all that much. Yes, there was synchronized sound, and yes, there was colour – both well entrenched by the halfway mark - but in essence the way that films were made at the end of Read more