<P> Returning home, Forrest endorses a company that makes ping pong paddles . He uses the earnings to buy a shrimping boat, fulfilling his promise to Bubba . Taylor joins Forrest in 1974, and although they initially have little success, after their boat becomes the only one to survive Hurricane Carmen, they pull in huge amounts of shrimp . They use their income to purchase a fleet of shrimp boats . Dan invests the money in Apple Computer (which Forrest naively thinks is "some kind of fruit company") and Forrest is financially secure for the rest of his life, but gives half of his earnings to Bubba's family . He then returns home to see his mother's last days . </P> <P> In the late 1970s, Jenny returns to visit Forrest and he soon proposes to her . She declines, but slips into his bedroom and makes love to him that night before leaving early the next morning . Heartbroken, Forrest elects to go for a run . He decides to keep running across the country several times, over three and a half years, becoming famous in the process . </P> <P> In the present, Forrest reveals that he is waiting at the bus stop because he received a letter from Jenny who, having seen him run on television, asked him to visit her . Reunited with Jenny, she introduces him to his son, named Forrest Gump, Jr . Jenny tells Forrest she is sick with an unknown virus . The three move back to Greenbow, Alabama . Jenny and Forrest finally marry but she dies a year later . Forrest and his son await the school bus on Forrest Jr.'s first day of school . </P> <Ul> <Li> Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump: Though at an early age he is deemed to have a below average IQ of 75, he has an endearing character and shows devotion to his loved ones and duties, character traits which bring him into many life - changing situations . Along the way, he encounters many historical figures and events throughout his life . Tom's younger brother Jim Hanks is his acting double in the movie for the scenes when Forrest runs across the U.S. Tom's daughter Elizabeth Hanks appears in the movie as the girl on the school bus who refuses to let young Forrest (Michael Conner Humphreys) sit next to her . John Travolta was the original choice to play the title role, and admits passing on the role was a mistake . Bill Murray and Chevy Chase were also considered for the role . Sean Penn stated in an interview having been second choice for the role . Hanks revealed that he signed onto the film after an hour and a half of reading the script . He initially wanted to ease Forrest's pronounced Southern accent, but was eventually persuaded by director Robert Zemeckis to portray the heavy accent stressed in the novel . Hanks agreed to take the role only on the condition that the film be historically accurate . <Ul> <Li> Michael Conner Humphreys portrayed the young Forrest Gump . Hanks revealed in interviews that after hearing Michael's unique accented drawl, he incorporated it into the older character's accent . Winston Groom, who wrote the original novel, describes the film as having taken the "rough edges" off of the character, and envisioned him being played by John Goodman . </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Robin Wright as Jenny Curran: Forrest's childhood friend with whom he immediately falls in love, and never stops loving throughout his life . A victim of child sexual abuse at the hands of her bitterly widowed father, Jenny embarks on a different path from Forrest, leading a self - destructive life and becoming part of the hippie movement in the 1960s and the 1970s / 1980s drug culture . She re-enters Forrest's life at various times in adulthood . Jenny eventually becomes a waitress in Savannah, Georgia, where she lives in an apartment with her (and Forrest's) son, Forrest Jr . They eventually get married, but soon afterwards she dies of an unnamed illness, but given the time period, the movie's propensity for showing the major aspects of U.S. culture, and the character's depicted actions during the 60s and 70s, it can be speculated that she died of AIDS or Hepatitis C . <Ul> <Li> Hanna R. Hall portrayed the young Jenny . </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Gary Sinise as Lieutenant Dan Taylor: Forrest and Bubba Blue's platoon leader during the Vietnam War, whose ancestors have died in every U.S. war and who regards it as his destiny to do the same . After losing his legs in an ambush and being rescued against his will by Forrest, he is initially bitter and antagonistic towards Forrest for leaving him a "cripple" and denying him his family's destiny, falling into a deep depression . He later serves as Forrest's first mate at the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company, gives most of the orders, becoming wealthy with Forrest, and regains his will to live . He ultimately forgives and thanks Forrest for saving his life . By the end of the film, he is engaged to be married and is sporting "magic legs"--titanium alloy prosthetics which allow him to walk again . </Li> <Li> Mykelti Williamson as Benjamin Buford "Bubba" Blue: Bubba was originally supposed to be the senior partner in the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company, but due to his death in Vietnam, their platoon leader, Dan Taylor, took his place . The company posthumously carried his name . Forrest later gave Bubba's mother Bubba's share of the business . Throughout filming, Williamson wore a lip attachment to create Bubba's protruding lip . David Alan Grier, Ice Cube and Dave Chappelle were all offered the role but turned it down . Chappelle said he believed the film would be unsuccessful, and also acknowledged that he regrets not taking the role . </Li> <Li> Sally Field as Mrs. Gump: Field reflected on the character, "She's a woman who loves her son unconditionally....A lot of her dialogue sounds like slogans, and that's just what she intends ." </Li> <Li> Haley Joel Osment as Forrest Gump, Jr.: Osment was cast in the film after the casting director noticed him in a Pizza Hut commercial . </Li> <Li> Peter Dobson as Elvis: Although Kurt Russell was uncredited, he provided the voice for Elvis in the scene . </Li> <Li> Dick Cavett as himself: Cavett played a version of himself in the 1970s, with makeup applied to make him appear younger . Consequently, Cavett is the only well - known figure in the film to play a cameo role rather than be represented through the use of archival footage like John Lennon or President John F. Kennedy </Li> <Li> Sonny Shroyer as Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant </Li> <Li> Grand L. Bush, Michael Jace, Conor Kennelly, and Teddy Lane Jr. as the Black Panthers </Li> </Ul>

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