The most popular film of all time according to French viewers on Allociné has made its return to Netflix, a few months after leaving the streaming platform for Prime Video.
Between streaming platforms, programs come and go. Sites often sort through their catalog to make room for new releases of the moment, or when exploitation rights expire. As a result, films and series disappear from the inventory of streaming platforms, before arriving at others later. This is particularly the case for the film with the highest rating from Allociné viewers, which users of the site specializing in cinema therefore consider to be the best of all time. A few months after leaving Netflix and joining Prime Video, it is now back on the site with the red N.
Since its release in 1994, Forrest Gump has established itself as a timeless classic of the seventh art. Its moving plot, which traces the recent history of the United States, as well as the work of interpretation of its actors, have totally seduced generations of spectators, who consider it as a must-see to have seen in their lifetime. So much so that it was selected in 2011 to be preserved at the American Library of Congress for its interest judged “culturally, historically or aesthetically important”.
This drama directed by Robert Zemeckis (Back to the future) follows a man, Forrest Gump, who is waiting for a bus and takes the opportunity to tell his life story to the other passengers. Considered simple-minded, he has nevertheless lived through the greatest moments in the history of the United States since the 1950s: from the end of segregation to the Vietnam War, to the election of Kennedy or Nixon, through the hippie movement, the moon landing of Neil Armstrong or even the Watergate scandal and the AIDS epidemic.
In the cast, Tom Hanks plays opposite Robin Wright (House of Cards), Gary Sinise (Of Mice and Men) or even Mykelti Williamson (Save Willy). With this performance, the lead actor moved audiences around the world, to the point of winning the Oscar for best actor in 1995. That same year, Forrest Gump also won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing and Best Visual Effects.
At the time of its release, Forrest Gump received generally positive international reviews, according to Metacritic (82/100) and Rotten Tomatoes (71%). The French press was a little less seduced, but Zemeckis’s achievement still ranks at the top of the best films of all time according to Allocine viewers’ opinions, with a score of 4.6/5. At the time of its release in 1994, the feature film would earn $679 million at the American box office.
For a few weeks now, Forrest Gump is back on Netflix. But don’t panic if you don’t have a subscription, because Forrest’s hectic life is also available on Prime Video. You have no excuse not to see the most popular film among Allociné users!