{"id":343017,"date":"2025-12-30T15:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T15:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/343017\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T15:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T15:32:08","slug":"you-have-just-days-to-watch-tom-hanks-superb-and-witty-90s-classic-as-it-leaves-uk-streamer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/343017\/","title":{"rendered":"You have just days to watch Tom Hanks’ “superb and witty” ’90s classic as it leaves UK streamer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Forrest Gump, the \u201csuperb and witty\u201d 1990s classic starring Tom Hanks, is leaving a UK streamer very soon. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, the film stars Hanks in the titular role as an innocent-natured man as he navigates some major events in US history.<\/p>\n

Joining Hanks on the cast is Sally Field, who plays his loving mother Mrs Gump, and Robin Wright, who stars as Forrest’s childhood love interest Jenny. <\/p>\n

First released in 1994, the logline of the film reads: “A gentle, friendly man navigates a series of extraordinary events, all while inspiring those around him with his perpetual optimism.”<\/p>\n

Forrest Gump is set to leave Netflix on 4 January, meaning fans of the film with a subscription to the streaming service have just days left to watch. <\/p>\n

In the decades since its release, Forrest Gump has proved popular among critics and currently has a score of 75% on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> from 157 reviews, with many praising Zemeckis’ film. <\/p>\n

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“Director Robert Zemeckis is no stranger to spectacular effects. But seldom do knockout technology, superb acting and witty writing meld so satisfactorily,” penned The Tampa Tribune<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The Guardian<\/a> wrote: “Forrest Gump is Hollywood film-making at its most corn-fed, sucrose-enriched and calorific; you\u2019ll need a sweet tooth for it.”<\/p>\n

“Zemeckis has made a fast movie about a slow hero; he transforms Forrest’s daffy misconceptions into lyrical flights,” said New York Magazine<\/a>, adding: “Forrest Gump has a softer, more delicate touch and a richer current of feeling than any of the other holy-innocent movies.”<\/p>\n

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Related: Netflix shares first look at “deeply personal” Take That documentary with never-before-seen footage<\/a><\/p>\n

The Philadelphia Inquirer<\/a> wrote: “This isn’t the meaningful movie it pretends to be. But as a goofy entertainment that speeds through the latter half of the 20th century, stopping here and there to snap a photo or two, Forrest Gump does just fine.”<\/p>\n

While the film has garnered a mostly positive response over the years, not all critics agree, with IndieWire<\/a> writing: “It remains a bad movie that gets worse with age.” <\/p>\n

Sight & Sound<\/a> said of the film: “It’s too specific to be a proper allegory, and too vague to provide a satisfactorily millennial perspective on the last 50 years. Neither is it caustic enough to make one cry, nor soppy enough to make one laugh.”<\/p>\n

Forrest Gump is available to watch on Netflix in the UK until 4 January.<\/p>\n

The new edition of Living Legends, celebrating music icon Dolly Parton, is here! Buy Dolly at 80 in newsagents or online<\/a>, priced at just \u00a38.99.<\/p>\n

\"Lettermark\"<\/p>\n

Reporter, Digital Spy<\/p>\n

Harriet is a freelance news writer specialising in TV<\/a> and movies<\/a> at Digital Spy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A horror enthusiast, she joined Digital Spy after working on her own horror website, reviewing films and focusing largely on feminism in the genre.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In her spare time, Harriet paints and produces mixed-media art. She graduated from the University of Kingston with a BA in fine art, where she specialised in painting. She also has an MA in journalism from Birkbeck University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Forrest Gump, the \u201csuperb and witty\u201d 1990s classic starring Tom Hanks, is leaving a UK streamer very soon.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[379,133011,381,96,2788,1156,2839,133010,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-343017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-dd7a1881-e54f-4813-b5aa-ce83482f0586","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-hasproduct-true","tag-locale-gb","tag-movies","tag-shorttitle-you-have-days-to-watch-tom-hanks-90s-classic","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}