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Forrest Gump[Widescreen Collector's Subtitle] - DVD

SKU: 4227385 | Release Date: 8/28/2001

Rating: PG-13 for Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Sexual Situations, Drug Content, War Violence

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Rating: PG-13 for Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Sexual Situations, Drug Content, War Violence
Format: DVD
Theatrical Release: 1994
Length: 251 minutes
Screen Formats: Enhanced Widescreen for 16x9 TV
Genre: Dramadies
Studio: Paramount
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Other Formats: DVD (Widescreen Collector's Dubbed) - $16.99
Blu-ray Disc (Widescreen Dubbed Subtitle AC3) - $22.74
Blu-ray Disc (Widescreen Dubbed Subtitle AC3) - $19.49
DVD (Widescreen Subtitle) - $12.99

Synopsis

"Stupid is as stupid does," says Forrest Gump (played by Tom Hanks in an Oscar-winning performance) as he discusses his relative level of intelligence with a stranger while waiting for a bus. Despite his sub-normal IQ, Gump leads a truly charmed life, with a ringside seat for many of the most memorable events of the second half of the 20th century. Entirely without trying, Forrest teaches Elvis Presley to dance, becomes a football star, meets John F. Kennedy, serves with honor in Vietnam, meets Lyndon Johnson, speaks at an anti-war rally at the Washington Monument, hangs out with the Yippies, defeats the Chinese national team in table tennis, meets Richard Nixon, discovers the break-in at the Watergate, opens a profitable shrimping business, becomes an original investor in Apple Computers, and decides to run back and forth across the country for several years. Meanwhile, as the remarkable parade of his life goes by, Forrest never forgets Jenny (Robin Wright Penn), the girl he loved as a boy, who makes her own journey through the turbulence of the 1960s and 1970s that is far more troubled than the path Forrest happens upon. Featured alongside Tom Hanks are Sally Field as Forrest's mother; Gary Sinise as his commanding officer in Vietnam; Mykelti Williamson as his ill-fated Army buddy who is familiar with every recipe that involves shrimp; and the special effects artists whose digital magic place Forrest amidst a remarkable array of historical events and people. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

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Languages/Sound

Eng/Fre

Screen Formats

Enhanced Widescreen for 16x9 TV

Subtitle Languages

Eng

Additional Features

Widescreen version enhanced for 16:9 TVs Dolby Digital: English 5.1 Surround, French Dolby Surround English subtitles Interactive menus Scene selection Commentary by Robert Zemeckis, Steve Starkey, and Rick Carter Commentary by Wendy Finerman "Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump" documentary The magic of makeup Through the ears of Forrest Gump -- sound design Building the world of Gump -- production design Seeing Is Believing:11 visual effects [including two never-before-seen sequences] Photo gallery Screen tests Theatrical trailers

Series

Paramount Widescreen Collection

Chapters

Disc #1 -- Forrest Gump
1. I'm Forest...Forest Gump [:15]
2. Mama [2:38]
3. Like Peas and Carrots [1:48]
4. Run Forest Run! [:48]
5. Private Gump [:43]
6. Lieutenant Dan [:26]
7. My Best Good Friend [2:16]
8. Wounded In the Buttocks [:40]
9. You're My Girl [2:43]
10. National Celebrity [5:27]
11. Happy New Year [2:04]
12. Shrimp Boat Captain [5:26]
13. Bubba Gump [1:44]
14. Mama's Trip To Heaven [2:02]
15. Jenny Comes Home [:31]
16. A Little Run [:11]
17. Forrest Meets Forrest [1:21]
18. Beloved Mother, Wife and Friend [6:51]
19. Credits [2:08]

Cast

Sam Anderson - Principal Hancock
Joe Alaskey - President Nixon (voice)
Geoffrey Blake - Wesley
Charles Boswell - Aging Hippie
Michael Burgess - Cleveland
Mike Jolly - Club Patron
Byron Minns - Wounded Soldier
Jason McGuire - Fat Teen
Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump
Kevin Davis - Black Panther
Haley Joel Osment - Forrest Junior
Don Fischer - Army Recruiter
Afemo Omilami - Drill Sergeant
Bob Penny - Cronie
Paul Raczkowski - Man in VW Bug
Brett Rice - High School Football Coach
Gary Sinise - Lt. Dan Taylor
Valentino - Chinese Ping Pong Player
Ellen Lewis
Aaron Michael Lacey - Lt. Venetti
Dick Cavett - Himself
Peter Dobson - Young Elvis Presley
Nora Dunfee - Elderly Southern Woman
Sonny Shroyer - College Football Coach
Mary Ellen Trainor - Jenny's Babysitter
John Voldstad - Club Patron
Jeffrey Winner - Club Patron
Mykelti Williamson - Bubba Blue
Joe Washington - Local Anchor #2
Robin Wright Penn - Jenny Curran
Stephen Wesley Bridgewater - Hospital Officer
Peter Bannon - Local Correspondent #2
Michael Conner Humphreys - Young Forrest
Hanna R. Hall - Young Jenny Curran
Al Harrington - Local Anchor #1
Siobhan Fallon - School Bus Driver
Gary Robinson - Bus Recruit
John Galt - President Johnson (voice)
Harold G. Herthum - Doctor
George Kelly - Barber
David Brisbin - Newscaster
Hallie D'Amore - Waitress in Cafe
Sally Field - Mrs. Gump
Joe Alaskey - President Nixon
John Galt - President Johnson
Joe Alaskey - Richard M. Nixon
Siobhan Fallon Hogan - School Bus Driver
Siobhan Fallon-Hogan - School Bus Driver

Crew

Sound/Sound Designer: William Kaplan
Set Designer: Nancy Haigh
Costume Designer: Joanna Johnston
Art Director: Leslie McDonald
Co-producer: Charles James Newirth
Production Designer: Charles James Newirth
Screenwriter: Winston Groom
Production Designer: Rick Carter
Special Effects: Ken Ralston
Set Designer: Lauren Polizzi
Screenwriter: Charlie Peters
Editor: Arthur Schmidt
Screenwriter: Eric Roth
First Assistant Director: Steve Starkey
Producer: Steve Starkey
Composer (Music Score): Alan Silvestri ,Joel Sill
Makeup: Rick Sharp
Producer: Steve Tisch
Screenwriter: Ernest Thompson
Art Director: Jim Teegarden
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Set Designer: Elizabeth Lapp
First Assistant Director: Bruce G. Moriarty
Casting: Ellen Lewis
Set Designer: Erin Kemp
Cinematographer: David M. Dunlap ,Don Burgess
Makeup: Jay Cannistraci
Producer: Wendy Finerman
Set Designer: James C. Feng
Musical Performer: Tommy Johnson
Makeup: Hallie D'Amore ,Dan Striepeke ,Judith A. Cory
Sound/Sound Designer: Tom Johnson ,Dennis S. Sands
Sound Effects Editor: Randy Thom
Makeup: Richard Sharp
Book Author: Winston Groom
Sound Effects Editor: Gloria S. Borders
Sound/Sound Designer: Thomas Johnson ,Bill Kaplan
Production Assistant: Timothy Record
Sound/Sound Designer: William B. Kaplan

Forrest Gump: AMG Review
Richard Gilliam , AMG

Forrest Gump is the Baby Boom generation's tribute to itself, a panorama of American culture from the sleepy South of the 1950s to the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s. The film is a technical masterpiece, skillfully weaving together numerous cultural reference points, all without ever causing the audience to pause for thought. Director Robert Zemeckis and a team of top-notch special effects experts convincingly combined actors with archival footage so that Gump (Michael Conner Humphreys as a child and Tom Hanks as an adult) gets to interact with many famous personalities of the day. Of particular note are Gump's scenes at the University of Alabama, where Forrest meets then-governor George Wallace (via newsreel footage) and football coach Bear Bryant (actor Sonny Shroyer). Similarly outstanding are the sequences set in Vietnam and the later shrimpboat scenes with Gump's best friend (Gary Sinise), a legless war veteran. Forrest Gump won six Oscars, including Best Picture, over critical favorites Pulp Fiction and The Shawshank Redemption. An interesting sidelight to Hanks' Best Actor win is Jessica Lange's also set-in-Alabama Best Actress performance in Blue Sky in the same year. The wins, however, did not lead Hollywood to rush to set more films in the "Heart of Dixie" state. ~ Richard Gilliam, All Movie Guide

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