What you get?
The product is a special collector’s edition and it consists of two discs; the movie feature that is the brilliant ‘Forrest Gump’ and a ‘Behind the Magic of Forrest Gump’. The running time of the movie is approximately 136 minutes.

The Movie Plot
It is hard to describe and explain the main plot of the movie without giving the best bits away, but I will try to do so through my memories and personal experiences of the film, with plenty left to discover for those who haven’t yet watched it.
The story begins with a feather floating down from the sky and landing at the feet of Forrest Gump who is sitting on a bus stop bench. He puts the feather in a book and tells the story of his life to different people waiting with him at the stop. We first visit a young Forrest who is incredibly stupid with an I.Q of just 75; he is bullied because of this and the braces he has to wear on his legs. His only friend is Jenny who helps Forrest and teaches him about different aspects of life. A famous bit early on in the film is when bullies are throwing stones at Forrest who is helpless due to his braces. Jenny shouts, ‘Run Forrest, Run’, and so he does this and his braces are broken and he continues to run and run until he gets home. In my opinion this symbolises Forrest’s freedom.
Forrest from that moment always enjoyed running, and this was noticed by the coach of the University of Alabama and so he later played in the National Football Team, where he then met President John F Kennedy, when he famously said to him ‘I gotta pee’ after drinking 15 bottles of Dr. Pepper!
Forrest decides to join the army where he fights in the Vietnam War and there meets friends ‘Bubba’ and ‘Lt. Dan’. He try’s to save them both but Bubba is killed and Lt. Dan loses both his legs. Forrest meets Lyndon Johnson where he receives the Medal of Honour for rescuing his soldiers and shows the whole nation and the president his buttock wound. Whilst in the army Forrest becomes a professional ping-pong champion and again meets the President this time Richard Nixon.
He leaves the army and takes up the position of Shrimp boat captain, as a request of his dying friend Bubba. Lt. Dan joins him (as promised) and they eventually become hugely successful, Forrest later sends Bubba’s share of the money to his Mum who at the sight of it faints. Lt. Dan later suggests they invest some of their money, they eventually choose to invest some of this money into Apple Inc.
When Forrest returns home he finds that his mother is sick and so comes the famous catch phrase, ‘Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what your gonna get,’ said to him by his mother. Forrest’s mother later dies and this tragic event brings back Jenny who stays with him for a short while, she buys him some running shoes and Forrest has Jenny’s Fathers home knocked down, he wakes up one morning and she is gone. Then one day Forrest gets up and starts running and he keeps on running and running and running only stopping to eat and sleep. He picks up a group of followers who follow him across the country. He inspires along the way the ‘Shit Happens’ slogan for bumper stickers and the ‘smiley’ after wiping his face on a t-shirt. Then one day he decides to stop running.
Whilst telling all this on the bench at the bus stop he is told by one lady that the address he is wanting to go to is just a few blocks away so he ends up running there. This brings us to the present day in Forrest’s life. The address is that of Jenny’s where he meets his unknown son – Forrest. Jenny reveals she is ill so they move in with him and later Jenny asks Forrest to marry him. They wed and soon after Jenny dies. The story concludes with young Forrest’s first day at school and as Forrest watches the school bus pull away he opens the book and the same feather floats away back into the sky.

DVD Extras
Disc two consists of many interesting features that include:
- Through the eyes of Forrest Gump – Documentary
- The magic of Makeup
- Through the ears of Forrest Gump – Sound Design
- Building the world of Gump – Production Design
- Seeing is believing – 11 visual effects (includes 2 never-
before-seen sequences)
- Photo Gallery
- Screen Tests
- Theatrical Trailers

Awards?
Forrest Gump was the winner of 6 Academy awards including:
Best Performance in a leading role – Tom Hanks
Best Picture
Best Visual Effects
Best Film Editing
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Director – Robert Zemeckis

Classification
The Film has been given a 12 rating which I think is just about acceptable, if anything it should be a PG because it’s very much a family film and there is minimal violence and swearing throughout.