Forrest Gump

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Forrest Gump
Theatrical release poster
Directit biRobert Zemeckis
Produced bi
Screenplay biEric Roth
Based onForrest Gump
bi Winston Groom
Starnin
Muisic biAlan Silvestri
CinematographyDon Burgess
Eeditit biArthur Schmidt
Distributit biParamount Pictures
Release date
  • 23 Juin 1994 (1994-06-23) (Los Angeles)
  • 6 Julie 1994 (1994-07-06) (Unitit States)
Rinnin time
142 minutes
KintraUnitit States
LeidInglis
Budget$55 million[1]
Box office$677.9 million[1]

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.

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  1. a b "Forrest Gump (1994)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 1 Julie 2009.