Life is like a box of chocolates...

"Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get"

Forrest Gump is a 1994 drama film based on a 1986 novel by Winston Groom and the name of the title character of both. The film was a huge commercial success, earning USD$677 million worldwide during its theatrical run (the top grossing film in North America released that year). The film garnered a total of 13 Academy Award nominations, of which it won six, including Best Picture, Best Visual Effects, Best Director (Robert Zemeckis), and Best Actor (Tom Hanks).

The film tells the story of a mentally retarded man (or gump) and his epic journey through life, meeting historical figures, influencing popular culture and experiencing first-hand historic events while largely unaware of their significance, due to his lower than average intelligence. The film differs substantially from the book on which it was based.

The movie begins with a feather falling to the feet of Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) sitting at a bus stop in Savannah, Georgia. Forrest picks up the feather and puts it in a book, then tells the story of his life to a woman seated next to him (the listeners at the bus stop change regularly throughout his narration, each showing a different attitude towards Gump's narration, ranging from disbelief and indifference to rapt veneration).

Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump
Forrest is shown to have been taught much about life by his mother (Sally Field). Forrest often recalls her favorite sayings, including "Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you gonna get" and "Stupid is as stupid does."

Both sayings became popular catchphrases following the movie's release.

Other people who play key roles in Forrest's life include Jenny Curran (Robin Wright Penn), a childhood friend who is physically and sexually abused by her father; Benjamin Buford "Bubba" Blue (Mykelti Williamson), a young black shrimper who serves with Forrest in the Vietnam War and knows "everything there is to know about shrimping"; and Lieutenant Dan Taylor (Gary Sinise), under whose command Forrest and Bubba serve.

A few years after the war is over, Forrest proposes marriage to Jenny. She turns him down.

In the morning she disappears. To cope with his heartbreak, Forrest runs across the country for three and a half years.

Forrest is waiting at the bus stop because on March 30, 1981, he received a letter from Jenny who, having seen him run on TV, asks him to visit her. Forrest shows Jenny's letter to the current listener, a patient elderly lady who has already passed up one bus to continue listening; she tells him that the address is only a short walking distance away.

He thanks the lady and immediately starts running.

Once he is reunited with Jenny and her young son (Haley Joel Osment), Jenny tells him that the boy is named Forrest, after his father, who he at first incorrectly believes to be the son of another man named Forrest, although she confirms that the child is indeed his.

She also tells Forrest she is suffering from an unknown virus (In all likelihood HIV, which was an unknown virus in the 1980s).

Together the three move back to Greenbow, Alabama, where Jenny and Forrest finally marry, but their married bliss is cut short by Jenny's death "on a Saturday morning" according to Forrest. Her gravestone gives her date of death as March 22, 1982. (As a matter of fact, March 22nd, 1982 was Monday, not Saturday.)

The film ends with Forrest escorting his son to a schoolbus, where the father and son tell each other that they love each other. The feather in Forrest's book is blown away by the wind, and floats into the sky, echoing the film's beginning.

It is a fantastic movie and i defianately recommend seeing it!!

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