Forrest Gump

Forrest Gump
Theatrical release poster
Directit bi	Robert Zemeckis
Produced bi	Wendy Finerman Steve Tisch Steve Starkey
Screenplay bi	Eric Roth
Based on	Forrest Gump bi Winston Groom
Starnin	Tom Hanks Robin Wright Gary Sinise Mykelti Williamson Sally Field
Muisic bi	Alan Silvestri
Cinematography	Don Burgess
Eeditit bi	Arthur Schmidt
Distributit bi	Paramount Pictures
Release date	23 Juin 1994 (1994-06-23) (Los Angeles) 6 Julie 1994 (1994-07-06) (Unitit States)
Rinnin time	142 minutes
Kintra	Unitit States
Leid	Inglis
Budget	$55 million
Box office	$677.9 million

Forrest Gump is a 1994 American comedy-drama film based on the 1986 novelle o the same name bi Winston Groom. The film wis directit bi Robert Zemeckis an starns Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Mykelti Williamson, an Sally Field. The story depicts several decades in the life o Forrest Gump, a slow-wittit but kynd-hertit, guid-naiturt an athletically prodigious man frae Alabama wha witnesses, an in some cases influences, some o the definin events o the latter hauf o the 20t century in the Unitit States; mair specifically, the period atween Forrest's birth in 1944 an 1982. The film differs substantially frae Winston Groom's novelle, includin Gump's personality an several events that war depictit.