The cast
includes the following actors :
Tom Hanks as
Forrest Gump who received an Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role
Robin Wright
as Jenny Curran
Sally Field
as Mrs. Gump
Gary Sinise
as Lieutenant Dan Taylor
Mykelti
Williamson as Benjamin Buford
Rebecca
Williams as Lady at the bench
Michael
Conner Humphreys as Young Forrest
Plot
summary:
In the
opening scene of the movie, a man is seen waiting for the bus. His name is
Forrest Gump. Looking at him, viewers can sense that he is a little different
from the other people, and feels like there is still childishness in him. Then a
lady comes next to him to wait for the bus. She looks at her torn shoes of Gump
and tells that she too had similar pair of shoes. Listening to her, Gump
remembers his childhood and starts narrating the scene where Forrest Gump is a
small child. His mother takes her to the hospital where the doctor puts a pair
of weird shoes on him with metal rod retainers. He adds that he can never walk
properly because his bone is bent. Gump starts walking with the shoes and feels
uncomfortable. But his mother motivates him by telling him that God has created
every individual differently. And hence he too is different and special.
His mother
faces difficulty in getting Gump
admitted to the school because his IQ levels seem to be very low. But anyway, she convinces the principal and gets him admitted. On the first day of school
when no one lets him sit with him on the school bus, a girl named Jenny welcomes
him. Gradually these two become very good friends. Gump’s mother is a single
parent which means she had lost her husband. For earning she has opened a guest
house. One day, a very popular singer Elvis Presley comes to stay there. When
Elvis was singing in his room, Gump goes there too and performs a very funny
dance. Elvis loves that and makes it his hook step which makes him popular
all over the world.
One day when
Jenny and Gump were walking through the forest, some bullies from their class
come and start throwing stones at Gump. Jenny tells him to run as fast as he
can. Gump starts running with his speed increasing. And the rods retaining his
legs start breaking and he starts running even faster, as fast as lightning.
And hence now, his legs are completely fine and this is the first time he has
discovered that he can run so very fast.
Now that
they have grown up, the bullies are still being troublesome to them. Looking at
them Gump starts running. Although they are chasing him in the car, they can’t
catch him because Gump runs as fast as lightning. While running in order to escape them, he
reaches a football ground where the people were playing rugby. There too he
runs so fast that he wins over the rugby player who was running with the rugby ball.
This impresses the coach so very much and he asks who he is. The people around
him tell him that he is a local idiot. The coach decides to add him to the
group. And for this, he even gets admitted to the college through sports quota.
Gump only knows that whatever happens, he should take the rugby ball and run as
fast as he can. He runs so fast that they win each and every match they play. This
makes him so popular all over the country and he is even added to the national
team. After five years of playing for the team, he receives a degree from the
same college. He gets amazed that he received the degree for running.
On graduation day, he gets approached by an army officer who gives him a brochure
and asks him to grab the opportunity to
get admitted to the army. Now Gump is ready to go to the army training. When he
gets on the bus, no one lets him sit next to him. But a guy gives him the
seat and tells him that his name is Bubba. He adds that his family has a
business of cooking shrimp and he too wanted to start a shrimp boat company but
his family admitted him to the army. Bubba keeps telling the same thing time
and again.
They get
their training started. They are given a task to assemble a gun and Gump does
it so fast that the trainer gets amazed at him and says that he has never seen
someone doing it this fast. One day during training, he looks through a
magazine where he sees that the college has rusticated Jenny because she had
her nude photos leaked. Gump becomes so very sad and goes to meet Jenny. He
gets into a club where she was performing. The viewers were inappropriately
touching Jenny which makes Gump so angry that he beats everyone up. After the
incident, Jenny tells Gump that he can’t save her from every situation of life
like this and hence should stop caring. But Gump adds that they had planned to
get married when they grow up in their childhood. Jenny gets angry and rudely
asks him the meaning of love, the meaning of marriage. Now Jenny tries to get
into a car when Gump tells her that the army is sending him to Vietnam. She
tells him to put himself first and run if he feels unsafe rather than trying to
become a hero.
Now Gump and
his friends are taken to the war area of Vietnam. There too, Bubba makes a plan
that after capturing everything they will start catching shrimp from the lake
and start a business. Gump accepts the deal and they head towards the war area.
And then suddenly the enemies start firing at them. Gump fires at them too and
also remembers what promise he had made to Jenny. So he runs from there saving
his life. But he remembers that his friends are still stuck there. So he comes
back and saves them. He also saves Lieutenant Dan there. But Bubba loses his
life because he gets shot in the firing. Gump becomes very sad after losing
his friend and assures his soul that he will fulfill the dream they saw. Now
Gump gets praised by the army. But Lieutenant Dan is not happy with him
because he had already lost his legs so didn’t want to live a life being handicapped.
All the
injured are taken to the hospital. As Gump also got shot in the butt, so he
stays there too. One of the patients
teaches him how to play ping pong. And he learns it so very well that he
masters it. All the patients get amazed looking at the way he plays.
In an award
ceremony, Gump is awarded with a medal due to his bravery. There reaches Jenny
who becomes so proud of him and hugs him. Jenny has now started living a life
as a hippie. She is a drug addict too. She is in a live-in relationship with
another hippie. During Gump’s visit, he sees that guy beating Jenny which
furies him and Gump beats that guy so much. The next day that guy comes to ask for
pardon with Jenny and she accepts the pardon and she goes with him. This makes
Gump sad. Now Gump has become a professional ping pong player. He has become a
national ping pong player and is even sent to China to play there. He has
become very popular. One day on his way he meets Lieutenant Dan. He is living a
very difficult life. He tells Gump that he is an idiot and the government has
given the medal to such an idiot. Gump is a thick-skinned person so he doesn’t get
hurt. But rather he shares his plan with Dan that he will buy a ship and catch a
lot of shrimp and help Bubba’s family too. Dan doesn’t believe him and says
that he will join him if he does so.
No Gump gets
retired from the army and receives a lump sum of twenty-five thousand dollars.
He goes straight to Bubba’s house and tells his mother that he had promised
Bubba and hence will buy a ship. His mother asks her if he is crazy but he
doesn’t care that too. And hence Gump buys a ship and starts catching shrimps.
But he can’t even catch a single shrimp. There comes Lieutenant Dan and he
joins him too. But these two can’t succeed for a few days too. And one day a
heavy thunderstorm arrives and damages the ship. The only ship left now is
Gump’s ship. Hence now they are able to catch tons of shrimp. They start
getting rich. They start their nationwide trademark and hence get popular too.
One day Gump gets to know that his mother is ill through tv. And hence he runs
from the ship and gets straight into his house. After a few days of his stay, his
mother passes away. Gump grieves the loss of his mother and decides not to
go back to the ship and leaves the company in the hands of Dan. Dan one day
informs him through the mail that he has invested all their money in the Apple
company and hence will always have enough money for the rest of their lives.
Gump gives a huge amount of money to the Church, the hospital, and Bubba’s
mother too. Bubba’s family now has a very easy and luxurious life.
But Gump is
not happy with his life. He misses Jenny so much. Surprisingly, Jenny, one day
comes to his house. They talk a lot. He even tells Jenny this time too that he
wants to marry her. But Jenny refuses him by telling him that he should not marry a
girl like her. And that night they get intimate with each other. But the next
day when Gump wakes up, Jenny had already left the house. This leaves Gump so
sad. Now he starts running, running through every edge of the nation. He runs
for more than a year. He becomes popular due to this too. People start joining him too. After three years
two months fourteen days and sixteen hours of running, he stops and tells that
he is very tired and now wants to go home. After he reaches home, he receives a
letter from Jenny where she mentions her address.
Now the
scene comes back to the present day where Gump is telling his story to the
lady. He shows the address and that lady tells him that it is very near to
that place and hence he should not take the bus. And he goes to the place
running. He meets Jenny and she shows him her son. Actually, he is Gump’s son.
He becomes so happy looking at him. Jenny tells him that she has some kind of
virus in her body and hence is not doing well. He asks her to come with him and
he will take care of her. They get married and live in their house but very soon
Jenny passes away. He misses Jenny so much. He spends the rest of his life with his
son little Gump and teaches him everything he knows. They live a happy life
together.
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