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Stupid is as stupid does, says Forrest Gump (played by Tom Hanks in an Oscar-winning performance) as he discusses his relative level of intelligence with a stranger while waiting for a bus. Despite his sub-normal IQ, Gump leads a truly charmed life, with a ringside seat for many of the most memorable events of the second half of the 20th century. Entirely without trying, Forrest teaches Elvis ...
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Sep 15, 2021 · As "Forrest Gump" was celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2019, USA Today spotlighted Sammy Lee Davis, a decorated Vietnam veteran, as one real-life inspiration for the character. Nicknamed "the ...
Jul 6, 1994 · Forrest Gump has never been the brightest bulb in Greenbow, Ala. Blessed with an IQ of 75, his eccentricities growing up stuck out even more than the leg braces he wore. His Mississippi mud-slow brain made him a big, almost defenseless, target. ‘Course, that current runs wide and deep and strong, too.
Jenny Gump (née Curran) (July 16th 1945 - March 22nd 1982) was the childhood friend and later wife of Forrest Gump, and the mother of Little Forrest. She appears as the deuteragonist of the Forrest Gump movie and novel. At multiple points in the story Jenny tells Forrest to run when there is danger Jenny was born on July 16th, 1945 (the day the first atomic weapon in history was detonated in ...
Forrest Gump The presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson, the events of Vietnam, Watergate, and other history unfold through the perspective of a fictional Alabama man with an IQ of 75. Starring: Tom Hanks Robin Wright Gary Sinise Mykelti Williamson Sally Field
In 1981, Forrest Gump is sitting on a bench at a bus stop, and he has decided to tell his life story to a nurse who is sitting on the bench next to him. As a young boy, Forrest wore leg braces because he had a curved spine and was unable to walk properly. He grew up in a boarding house in Alabama with his mother, who taught him to always ...
Gary Sinise. Actor: Forrest Gump. Gary Alan Sinise was born in Blue Island, Illinois, to Mylles S. (Alsip) and Robert L. Sinise, A.C.E., a film editor. He is of Italian (from his paternal grandfather), English, Scottish, Irish, French, German, and Swedish ancestry. His family moved to Highland Park, where he attended high school.
