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For Forrest Gump (1994), Tom Hanks’s brother Jim Hanks doubled for him for the sequence where Forrest jogs across America. As Jim put it: “Tom had other doubles, but they couldn’t do the run,” he says, referring to Gump’s stiff, geeky stride. “That’s a stupid Hanks thing.”

Books and brews society on Instagram: "Forrest Gump (1994), directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring “Tom Hanks” in an academy award–winning performance, stands as one of the most emotionally saddening yet profoundly beautiful films because it reframes the modern american experience through the consciousness of a man untouched by ego, cynicism, or intellectual arrogance; Zemeckis masterfully blends private life with public history—placing forrest amid the vietnam war, the civil rights movement,