Thousand Oaks is a city in southeastern Ventura County, California, United States. It is in the northwestern part of the Greater Los Angeles Area, approximately 35 miles (56 km) from Downtown Los Angeles and is less than 15 mi (24 km) from the Los Angeles city neighborhood of Woodland Hills.
Tom Hanks, I owe you so much of my heart. 1. Talk to strangers, you never know who you are going to meet. Forrest Gump is almost entirely a story told by a man sitting on a park bench, waiting for the number 9 bus as he talks to anyone who will sit down next to him.
(Picture: Paramount Pictures) Michael Conner Humphreys, the child actor who played young Forrest Gump, has grown up to be just as brave as his loveable on-screen character. Just like Gump, he decided to join the US Army in 2004 and spent 18 months on a tour of duty in Iraq.