Thirty years ago today, Robert Zemeckis and Tom Hanks made history in one of the unlikeliest crowd-pleasers and box office success stories in Hollywood history. Everyone in the civilized world has seen "Forrest Gump", and in a 21st Century social climate increasingly inundated with online distractions, a MOVIE may never generate that level of engagement ever again. That's right, a movie. In 1994, cinema was at the center of pop culture, and it's impossible to discuss "Gump" without bringing up it's equally-celebrated rivals- "Pulp Fiction" and "The Shawshank Redemption". GOD-DAMN! This is never happening again. Baseball was on strike and no one cared. Jeff Bezos was about to start Amazon(without Forrest's help, as far as I know). It was a simpler time, that now feels as bygone as the 1952-1982 boomer paradise that was expertly recreated by the director of the "Back to the Future" trilogy. Join me as I run across America, and relive an absolute all-ages, four-quadrant classic.
