Show Notes
“Stupid is as stupid does.” We're lacing up our Nikes and just… feel like running with the multi-OSCAR-winning 1994 Robert Zemeckis megahit Forrest Gump.
The titular Forrest, Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks), born the simple son of a single mother in the Jim Crow South, guilelessly glides through the second half of the American Century in an episodic tale that takes in desegregation, the war in Vietnam, ping pong in Mao’s China, the fall of Richard Nixon, and the attendant political and social upheavals of the Boomer generation.
Over 30 years on, does Forrest still offer us a pristine box of chocolates, or has it melted and curdled into a sickly sweet, gooey mess?
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