has gone bust and now Forrest is flat broke, sweeping floors in a New Orleans strip joint, when a fresh opportunity to play championship football puts him back in the limelight-and in the money. She tells me she's always rooting for me.' The Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. 'Whenever I really get stumped, I go visit Jenny's grave.

Now he returns in the long-awaited sequel to the book hailed by Larry King as 'the funniest novel I have ever read.' A little older, and wiser in his unique way, Forrest is still running-this time straight into the age of greed and instant gratification known as the 1980s. and Canada and $347,693,217 in international markets for a total of $677,387,716 worldwide.Forrest Gump captured our hearts in the #1 New York Times bestselling novel Forrest Gump, and in the blockbuster film, winner of six Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Actor. The film took 66 days to surpass $250 million and was the fastest grossing Paramount film to pass $100 million, $200 million, and $300 million in box office receipts (at the time of its release). The film had gross receipts of $329,694,499 in the U.S. Perhaps the briefcase also contained his Congressional Medal of Honor and maybe a ring or certificate from his All-America football career at the University of Alabama. There was a copy of Curious George, his favorite book.

There was a well-worn Ping-Pong paddle, the one he actually used, not the one he endorsed for the $25,000 check he used to launch the shrimp company. Dan on the cover, the magazine he pulled out to prove that he was, indeed, the noted co-founder of the Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. In it there was a Bubba Gump shrimp ball cap and an issue of Forbes magazine showing him and Lt. In present day scenes, Forrest Gump carries a briefcase. The story depicts several decades in the life of Forrest Gump, a slow-witted but kind-hearted, good-natured and athletically prodigious man from Alabama, who witnesses, and in some cases influences, some of the defining events of the latter half of the 20th century in the United States more specifically, the period between Forrest's birth in 19. 'Forrest Gump' is a 1994 American comedy-drama film based on the 1986 novel of the same name by Winston Groom.

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