‘Forrest Gump’, is a 1994 film starring Torn Hanks, and directed by Robert Zemeckis. It is based on the best-selling 1986 novel of the same name by Winston Groom. The film differs substantially from the novel, including the lead character’s personality, and several events that were depicted.
The story depicts several decades in the life of its lead character Forrest Gump (Hanks), a simple-minded and athletically prodigious man from Alabama. The story begins with Gump telling his life story to other people while waiting at a bus stop. As the story continues, you find Forrest touching important events and people from the 1950s to the 1980s (ranging from Elvis Presley to several Presidents of the US), rising to his own measure of fame and fortune in the process, mostly by just being himself.
The movie had thirteen nominations at the Academy Awards and won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Visual Effects, and Best Film Editing. Winston Groom published a sequel to the original novel, ‘Gump & Co.,’ in 1995.
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