Sergeant Forrest Gump Sr.(born June 6, 1944 also known as Forrest Gump in Greenbow, Alabama) is a fictional character who first appears in the 1986 eponymous novel by Winston Groom. Forrest Gump also appeared on screen in the 1994 film of the same name directed by Robert Zemeckis. Gump was portrayed as a child by Michael Conner Humphreys and portrayed as an adult by Tom Hanks, who won an Academy Award for the role. The portrayal of Forrest in...
On the bus, after two recruits refuse to let him sit. Bubba moves his case an...
Forrest stops in the middle of the road and turns back toward the people behi...
The scene changes back to the bus stop briefly then back again to young Forre...
On the Army recruitment bus, Bubba and Forrest introduce themselves.
The man sitting next to Forrest at the bus stop asks him a question about his...
Young Forrest is standing in the isle on the school bus, as all the other chi...
The two women that where entertaining Dan and Forrest leave when Dan pushes o...
Forrest tells the woman sitting next to him at the bus stop all about Bubba.
With tears in his eyes, while standing at Jenny's grave, Forrest ponders the ...
Forrest, staying at the Watergate Hotel courtesy of President Nixon, calls se...
Jenny lies in bed. Forrest brings in her breakfast. He sets the tray on the t...
The movie opens with Forrest siting on a bench at a bus stop. A woman sits ne...
Forrest narrates a scene where young Jenny is sitting on a tree limb. Young F...
Forrest stands over Bubba's grave talking to him as if he where standing ther...
At the bus stop, Forrest continues to talk to the woman though she basically ...
As Forrest narrates, the scene changes from his mother's bedroom back to the ...
After carrying four or five injured members of his Platoon out of harms way. ...
When Forrest sees Dan on the dock he jumps off the boat and swims to the dock...
President Nixon is shown awarding Forrest a U.S table tennis tournament medal...
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