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comfortable", stale movie that is inevitably always shown on some channel. At worst, it’s a sanitized take on American history. Still, it's hard to separate Tom Hanks from this career-defining role. Here, he plays the wide-eyed Forrest, a naive and sensitive man who inadvertently influenced several major events of the 20th century. Rebecca Williams and Tom Hanks in "Forrest Gump." Photo Credit: Paramount.


Pictures/Everett Collection Everyone around him seems to be Country Email List suffering – from his childhood sweetheart Jenny (Robin Wright), who is struggling with abuse and living a sex-positive, After leading a life of resistance to the war before dying of complications from HIV/AIDS, Benjamin Buford Blue (aka "Bubba") (played by Mykelti Williamson) is one of the few black people in the film One of the characters died during the Vietnam War. (Another famous black character is a man Forrest meets on a bench.






and is forced to listen to the man tell her about his white supremacist relatives...) But, somehow, Forrest emerges unscathed It was painful to get through it all. It's an endlessly cheesy and often offensive film that venerates apolitical. A punchline in the world of memes and pop culture. There's no doubt that Forrest Gump is one of Hanks' most polarizing films. Still, there's no getting away from it in this roundup of his screen performances. Hanks really brings the character to life - even if Forrest is just a white guy who keeps failing upward.