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 (soundtrack) Forrest Gump (soundtrack) Forrest Gump: The Soundtrack is the soundtrack album based on the Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning film, "Forrest Gump", and contains music from many well-known artists. The score, composed by Alan Silvestri, was released separately (as "Forrest Gump – Original Motion Picture Score") on the same day. The album was reissued in 2001 with two additional tracks. The soundtrack jumped from #34 to #7 on the "Billboard" 200 albums chart on July 30, 1994. The next week on August 6, 1994, it moved from #7 to #3, staying there for one week. It reached its peak position