Forrest Gump in its list of the "Best 100 Conservative Movies" of all time. Then, in 2009, the magazine ranked the film number four on its 25 Best Conservative Movies of the Last 25 Years list. "Tom Hanks plays the title character, an amiable dunce who is far too smart to embrace the lethal values of the 1960s. The love of his life, wonderfully played by Robin Wright Penn, chooses a different path; she becomes a drug-addled hippie, with disastrous results." James Burton, a communication arts professor at Salisbury University, argued that conservatives claimed "Forrest Gump" as their own due less to
Forrest Gump – Original Motion Picture Score Forrest Gump – Original Motion Picture Score Forrest Gump – Original Motion Picture Score is the original score album for the 1994 film "Forrest Gump", directed by Robert Zemeckis. The music was composed and conducted by Alan Silvestri. Silvestri's music was nominated for Best Original Score in the 67th Academy Awards. The album released is not to be confused with the better-selling (and therefore more common) album of diegetic songs from the film, which were released as "Forrest Gump: The Soundtrack". All Music called it "saccharine", and said that while it worked as a soundtrack "it has little value on