Gump and Co. humor tiresome and banal. Gump and Co. Gump & Co. (or Forrest Gump and Co.) is a 1995 novel by Winston Groom. It is the sequel to his novel "Forrest Gump" (1986), and the Academy Award-winning film of the same name released in 1994, with Tom Hanks. It was written to chronicle Forrest's life throughout the 1980s. On the first page, Forrest Gump tells readers "Don't never let nobody make a movie of your life's story," though "Whether they get it right or wrong, it don't matter." However, the character is not an idiot savant, as in the first book,
Ken Ralston films of Robert Zemeckis. Ralston has won five Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, including a Special Achievement Oscar for the visual effects in "Return of the Jedi" (1983), and regular awards for his work on "Cocoon" (1985), "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" (1988), "Death Becomes Her" (1992) and "Forrest Gump" (1994). He was nominated three more times for "Dragonslayer" (1981), "Back to the Future Part II" (1989) and "Alice in Wonderland" (2010). Ken Ralston Kenneth "Ken" Ralston (born 1954) is an American visual effects artist, currently the Visual Effect Supervisor and Creative Head at Sony Pictures Imageworks. Ralston began his