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{{quote|[[Hello]]. [[The Name Is Bond, James Bond|My name is Forrest. Forrest Gump.]]}}
'''''Forrest Gump''''' is a 1994 film starring [[Tom Hanks]] and directed by [[Robert Zemeckis]], and based on a 1986 novel by Winston Groom. It's the tale of a good-natured but simple-minded man [[Historical In-Joke|touching important events and people]] from [[The Fifties]] to [[The Eighties]] (ranging from [[Elvis Presley]] to several presidents), rising to his own measure of fame and fortune in the process, mostly by just being himself. But he's forever pining for his childhood sweetheart Jenny (played by Hanna Hall [[Timeshifted Actor|and]] Robin Wright), who takes a different path in life that sometimes intersects with his.
Forrest's journey takes him from his native Alabama to the jungles of Vietnam, from walking in corrective leg-braces to running across North America, from misunderstood country boy to champion ping-pong player to shrimp tycoon, without ever quite losing the undying optimism of the era.
The film was a major box office hit, earning $677,387,716 worldwide (behind only ''[[The Lion King]]'' that year). The critics loved it; it went on to win six Oscars and numerous other awards. Thought by some to be one of Hanks' most memorable movies, ''Forrest Gump'' is also acclaimed for its soundtrack, peppered with dozens of iconic songs of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s
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* [[Actually Pretty Funny]]: When Lt. Dan asks if Gump has found Jesus yet. Gump tells him he didn't know he's supposed to be looking for him. This causes Dan to break out into laughter before he explains what he meant.
* [[Accidental Athlete]]: Forrest ends up as a running back on Bear Bryant's University of Alabama team when a couple of bullies chase him and he ends up running through the school field when the team was practicing. It helps when you consider exactly who he was seen by. For those of you unaware, Paul "Bear" Bryant is universally considered to be one of the greatest American football coaches of all time.
* [[Achievements in Ignorance]]: Forrest is so dense that he routinely attempts things other people wouldn't even consider, and so single-minded that he puts his maximum effort into everything he does. As a result, he meets spectacular success while the skeptics are left scratching their heads.
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* [[Brick Joke]]: Bubba's momma serving dinner, then being served to.
** At the beginning of the movie, Forrest tries to get to know the bus driver, Dorothy Harris, because his mother has told him not to take rides from strangers and , Forrest being as dense as he is, to him introducing themselves won't make them strangers anymore. At the end, {{spoiler|Forrest Jr. immediately says upon being greeted onto the bus: "You're Dorothy Harris, and I'm Forrest Gump."}}
*** there was an even funnier call back to it where he introduces himself to the Army Bus driver, who rather than give his name, yells at him to get him on the bus.
** When Forrest first ventures out in Nam with Lt. Dan's platoon. Dan orders them to get down and shut up. Forrest takes the time in his narration to introduce his fellow soldiers, with Tex being the last one introduced. When Forrest is later searching for Bubba, Tex is the first wounded soldier he finds and rescues.
** When Forrest is with Lt. Dan celebrating New Years he rejects one of Dan's girlfriend's Long Limbs Lenore. When Forrest meets Jenny again years later, she's kept a scrapbook of his international Jogging. One specific page has a picture of him in the National Enquirer saying "Go Go Dancer Says.... Forrest Made Me His Secret Lover." But Forrest being Forrest had a response line under it saying "I don't know her."
* [[Buffy-Speak]]: Forrest's general [[Verbal Tic]]. This leads to a nice [[Historical In-Joke]] when he ends up being a shareholder in "some sort of fruit company" (Apple Computers).
* [[Calling Your Bathroom Breaks]]: Forrest announces this while meeting JFK of all people...
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