This film seems completely to divide opinion. I have to join the group that doesn't know why everybody thinks it's so great. I find the whole movie makes me cringe. Tom Hanks has to be the most over rated actor around. His light weight performance of simpleton 'Gump' shows he completely lacks any imagination. How this won best picture beggars belief. It story seems to be made to fit the facts rather allowing the characters developing on there own. Is Forrest Gump supposed to be a poor man's Chance The Gardner spewing simple phrases that have profound comment. Is this how America really wants the history of the sixties to be remember for? Are we to assume that in the real world the simple with no vices will really succeed. I'm sorry but I for one found this mom and apple pie version of life hard to swallow.