"Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you are gonna get". If you don't know that line you have never seen Forrest Gump. We meet Forrest at the beginning of our story in Savannah, Georgia at a bus stop. Being as social as he is he starts sharing is story with the people who join him on the bench. Telling them about where he lived and how he grew up. How he went to serve in the Vietnam War and is the owner of Bubba Gump Shrimp. However, he mostly talked about Jenny, his best friend.
Winning six Academy Awards Paramount had one of the best movies to ever grace the screen on their hand. The competition was particularly steep in 1994 as all of the films nominated have be come classics in their own right. Forrest Gump beat out: Miramax's Pulp Fiction, Hollywood's Quiz Show, Columbia's The Shawshank Redemption, and PolyGram's Four Weddings and a Funeral for the right to be named Best Picture.
This movie has stuck with me from the first time that I have seen it. Every time I have seen it I fall more and more in love with it. It is on my top ten favorite films of all time. Tom Hanks has got to be one of the best Actors to ever come on the movie screen. He plays a number of different characters through his career and he can play anything! I will be glad to see this film again and very soon!
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