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Forrest Gump | Description: Any film that surpasses $300 million at the box-office and garners 13 Academy Award nominations is a force to be reckoned with, and good or bad, right or wrong, "Forrest Gump" is undeniably a cultural phenomenon. As a video reviewer it's impossible not to acknowledge that fact, but ultimately the furor will die down and the film itself will remain. To that end, Robert Zemeckis has crafted a very good, occasionally brilliant movie that has become more than the sum of its parts, yet somehow less than it's been made out to be. For the dozen or so people who have yet to see it, "Forrest Gump" follows the accidentally amazing life of its title character, a slow-witted Alabaman played with staccato dignity by Tom Hanks. Raised proper by his strong, fiercely protective mama (Sally Field), Forrest would be an American ideal -- loyal, earnest, successful -- if not for his sub-standard IQ. Year: 1994 Classification: Drama Country: USA Language: Englis Directed: - Robert Zemeckis Actors/Actresses: - Sally Field as Mrs. Gump - Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump - Gary Sinise as Dan Taylor - Robin Wright Penn as Jenny Curran - Peter Dobson - Mykelti Williamson as Bubba - Haley Joel Osment A Wonderful and Unbelievable Story This Winner of 6 Academy Awards including Best Picture 1994 and Best Director-Robert Zemeckis, based on a novel by Winston Groom is still considered as one of the greatest and most beautiful movies ever made. Life is like a disc of bonus features..... I think the merits of Forrest Gump as a movie have been debated enough by now. If you're reading this, you probably already have a pretty good idea if the movie's digitally enhanced nostalgia and praise to the virtues of simplicity will appeal to you or not. So I'm just going to talk about what I thought of the DVD. The film enthusiast and the Gump fan will find a fair amount of interesting stuff to peruse, but the bonus feature are unfortunately kind of hit or miss. It's neat seeing exactly how all of the special effects were done or how sound and makeup were used to enhance mood in particular scenes. The screen test are nice enough, if only because you get to see Tom Hanks playing Forrest before he had worked out the accent. And the Zemeckis/Starket/Carter commentary, while lacking the fun and spontanaity of some I've heard, provides enough good tidbits and insights to keep you interested. But these pretty good features run alongside some really poor ones. Mark Johnson and Ron Howard--meets all criteria with his sweeping film, THE ALOMO. Walking into the thea >http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00029U9D2.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg Buy Forrest Gump at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on Forrest Gump Search with the Priority Search Engine on Forrest Gump This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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