Forrest Gump (character) childhood friend Jennifer Curran, who eventually becomes his wife. Tom Hanks portrayed the character in the film and earned an Academy Award for his performance, while Michael Conner Humphreys portrayed Forrest as a child. In 2008, Forrest Gump was named the 20th greatest movie character of all time by "Empire" magazine. Forrest was born near the small town of Greenbow, Alabama, on June 6, 1944. His father was absent during his life, and his mother said he was "on vacation". His mother named Forrest after their ancestor Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Scotch-Irish American and a noted Confederate general in the
Gump and Co. A screenplay was written by Eric Roth based on "Gump and Co." in 2001. In 2007, Paramount took another look at the project, but nothing came of it. The proposed film was mentioned in "Cecil B. Demented", a John Waters film. In "Cecil", the planned sequel for the movie "Forrest Gump" is called "Forrest Gump, Gump Again". Larry King reportedly called it "the funniest novel I ever read". The publisher, Simon & Schuster, cite a number of positive reviews, including Patricia Holt, in the "San Francisco Chronicle", saying it "is a delight". "The New York Times" review called the book's