Forrest Gump

Cast

Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump

Robin Wright as Jenny Curran Gump

Mykelti Williamson as Benjamin Buford "Bubba" Blue

Haley Joel Osment as Forrest Gump, Jr

Sally Field as Mrs. Gump

Gary Sinise as Dan Taylor

Where the movie was filmed

1993, mainly in Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina

Principle

His story begins with the leg braces he had to wear as a child, which resulted in him being bullied by other children. On a bus for his first day of school, Forrest meets Jenny, with whom he immediately falls in love, and they become best friends. Forrest discovers that he can run very fast which, despite his below-average intelligence, earns him a scholarship to the University of Alabama in 1962 from Bear Bryant.

After graduating, Forrest enlists in the United States Army, where he becomes friends with Benjamin Buford "Bubba" Blue, and they agree to go into the shrimping business together. They are sent to Vietnam, and on June 7, 1965, their platoon is ambushed. Forrest saves many of the men in his platoon, including platoon leader 2nd Lt. Dan Taylor, but Bubba is killed. Forrest himself is wounded and receives the Medal of Honor from President Lyndon B. Johnson. While recovering from his injuries Forrest meets Lt. Dan again. Now an amputee, he is furious at Forrest for leaving him a "cripple" and cheating him out of his destiny to die in battle like 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.

Development

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.

After the Fall of Saigon Forrest is discharged from the military. 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

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