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...Gump has warmed the collective heart of moviegoers; they spread the word, command their friends to go. They storm music stores for the two-CD album, featuring 32 songs from the rock era. They snap up copies of Winston Groom's 1986 novel, on which the film was based, and copies of Gumpisms: The Wit and Wisdom of Forrest Gump, a pocket-size book of aphorisms from the novel. Then they run back to the theater to relive the experience. "It makes you look at things in a better way than you used to," says W. Bart Edwards, a Gainsville...
...want to sound like a bad version of 'the child within,"' says co- producer Wendy Finerman, who discovered the novel in galleys nine years ago and nurtured the film to fruition. "But the childlike innocence of Forrest Gump is what we all once had. It's an emotional journey. You laugh and cry. It does what movies are suppose to do: make you feel alive...
...actor whom the mass audience trusts as an exemplar of quality. He can sell a tough subject to tough customers because they know the film will not be so much about issues as about the decency with which his character faces up to them. That goes for Gump. "The film is nonpolitical," Hanks says, "and thus nonjudgmental. It doesn't just celebrate survival, it celebrates the struggle...
...does the audience. "I want to stand up and yell, 'Go, Gump, go!"' says Chris Jackson, a Chicago bartender. "I sat there with tears dripping down my face." This is the common testimony: cheering and tearing. "People cheered at our audience-research sessions," says Finerman, "so we knew we had something. What amazed us was that all four quadrants -- older men and women, younger men and women -- wanted to see it." That's another clue to Gumpmania: it's a movie that makes grown men cry. From I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang to Field of Dreams...
That must be what attracted Finerman, whose eight-year crusade to make this movie is already a Hollywood legend. In retrospect, though, Forrest Gump seems a can't-miss proposition. Consider that the only three movies of the past two decades to win both the year's box-office crown and the Oscar for Best Picture -- Rocky, Kramer vs. Kramer and Rain Man -- were canny, poignant fables of men in domestic crisis. Throw in two other high-grossing Oscar winners, Platoon and Terms of Endearment, and you have the recipe for a "mature," feel-good smash. Let's see: retarded...