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Forrest Gump (1994)
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Forrest Gump (1994)

Comedy, Drama, Romance • 2h 22m

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Cast: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Sally Field, Mykelti Williamson, Michael Conner Humphreys, Hanna Hall, Haley Joel Osment, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, Rebecca Williams, Bob Penny, Harold G. Herthum, George Kelly, John Randall, Sam Anderson, Margo Moorer, Ione M. Telech, Christine Seabrook, John Worsham, Peter Dobson, Alexander Zemeckis, Logan Livingston Gomez, Ben Waddel, Elizabeth Hanks, Tyler Long, Christopher Jones, Grady Bowman, Kevin Mangan, Fay Genens, Frank Geyer, Rob Landry, Jason McGuire, Pete Auster, Sonny Shroyer, Brett Rice, Ed Davis, Daniel C. Striepeke, Bruce Lucvia, David Brisbin, Kirk Ward, Angela Lomas, Timothy Record, Deborah McTeer, Mark Matheisen, Al Harrington, Jed Gillin, Bob Harks, Don Fischer, Kenneth Bevington, Michael Flannery, Gary Robinson, Marlena Smalls, Kitty K. Green, Afemo Omilami, Matt Wallace, Danté McCarthy, Paulie DiCocco, Mike Jolly, Michael Kemmerling, John Voldstad, Jeffrey Winner, Russ Wilson, Daniel J. Gillooly, Calvin Gadsden, Aaron Izbicki, Michael Burgess, Steven Griffith, Bill Roberson, Michael McFall, Eric Underwood, Steve DeRelian, Byron Minns, Stephen Bridgewater, Bonnie Ann Burgess, Scott Oliver, John William Galt, Hilary Chaplain, Isabel Rose, Jay Ross, Richard D'Alessandro, Dick Stilwell, Kevin Davis, Michael Jace, Geoffrey Blake, Tim Perry, Vanessa Roth, Paul Raczkowski, Valentine, Dick Cavett, Joe Stefanelli, Tiffany Salerno, Marla Sucharetza, Aloysius Gigl, Jack Bowden, Joe Alaskey, Lazarus Jackson, W. Benson Terry, Matt Rebenkoff, Peter Bannon, Joe Washington, Nora Dunfee, Natalie Hendrix Tate, Hallie D'Amore, Jim Hanks, Chiffonye Cobb, Juan Singleton, Bobby Richardson, Michael Mattison, Lenny Herb, Charles Boswell, Timothy McNeil, Lonnie Hamilton, Teresa Denton, Kurt Russell, Mary Ellen Trainor, Robb Skyler, Michael J. Oliver, Bryan Hanna, Greg Brown, Brendan Shanahan, Troy Christian, Jacqueline Lovell, Zach Hanner, Aaron Michael Lacey, William Shipman, Zhuang Zedong, Eric Alan Wendell, George Wallace, John-Michael Steele, John Simmit, Michael Satterfield, Mark A. Rich, Ronald Reagan, Elvis Presley, Darrell O'Cook, Richard Nixon, Neal MacMillan, Beau Lotterman, Andrew Lepper, John Lennon, Teddy Lane Jr., Conor Kennelly, Robert F. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Jim Keller, Lyndon B. Johnson, Russ Isles, Bob Hope, John Glenn Harding, Jeanne Hanna, Ellsworth Hanna, Christopher James Hall, Leigh Goodoff, Michael Garvey, Gerald Ford, James Ent, Ryan Duncan, Jim Damron, Darren W. Conrad, John Connally, Dick Clark, Daniel Chamblin, Clint Calvert, Grand L. Bush, Arthur Bremer, Jim Boeke, Keri-Anne Bilotta, Marcus Batton, Beth Aylward, Neil Armstrong, Markus Alexander, Todd Adamson, Rob Adams, Joe Abby

Paramount 4K Blu-ray

Best English-friendly & video release · updated 1 year ago

UHD tiers

Solid
Paramount

Overview

A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events—in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. But despite all he has achieved, his one true love eludes him.

Release details

TSPDT
2026: #568
2025: #586
2024: #613
2023: #577
2022: #577
Length
142 mins
Type
Movie
Alternative Titles
Forest Gump

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Director: Stanley Kubrick

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray (included in the Complete Kubrick box set with FiM encode of the same master from the WB release without the filtering)

Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Comparison between the Criterion and WB.

Best Audio:

5.1: WB 4K Blu-ray, a remix but has higher fidelity

Mono: Criterion 4K Blu-ray (restored for the box set)

Director: Stanley Kubrick

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray (included in the Complete Kubrick box set with FiM encode of the same master from the Sony release without the filtering)

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Comparison between Sony and Criterion.

Best Audio:

Mono: 1994 LaserDisc (marginally, unfiltered) or Criterion 4K Blu-ray (filtered)
5.1 Remix: Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Director: Stanley Kubrick

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray (included in the Complete Kubrick box set with FiM encode of the same master from the WB release without the filtering)

Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

WB 4K early pressing has errors of a shot, later pressings fixed. Comparison between Criterion and WB.

Best Audio:

6-Track 70mm mix: Criterion 4K Blu-ray (restored for the box set), 1997 MGM LaserDisc, 1998 MGM DVD
35mm Mono Mix: Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Matrixed Stereo Remix: MGM Japan LaserDisc (1985) [G158F5509]
5.1 Remix: Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Director: Steve James

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion Blu-ray and UK Dogwoof Blu-ray probably similar

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Director: Victor Fleming

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

2D: Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray

3D: Warner Bros 3D Blu-ray or Apple Vision Pro

Best Audio:

1989 MGM LaserDisc

Audio Notes:

(caveat: "there's" in first "there's no place like home" utterance in final Kansas scene truncated)

Director: Vincente Minnelli

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Best Audio:

1991 MGM LaserDisc

Director: Morton DaCosta

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Bros Blu-ray

Upcoming Release:

Warner Archive 4K Blu-ray Nov 24th

Director: Tony Scott

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

70mm 6-track mix in 5.1: Paramount THX LaserDisc

Dolby Stereo mix in 2.0: Paramount THX LaserDisc

Additional Info:

The 70mm 6-track mix has a higher bitrate on the Paramount 1998 DVD, but is more limited than on the THX LaserDisc The Paramount 1998 DVD also has open matte versions in fullscreen 1.33:1 and widescreen 2.00:1 instead of the theatrical aspect ratio of 2.39:1, but the 2.00:1 widescreen presentation is non-anamorphic. The THX LaserDisc is available in both fullscreen 1.33:1 and widescreen 2.00:1 variants.

Director: Terrence Malick

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Lovely underlying remaster by Criterion and Resillion but encode is sadly low-pass filtered by Pixelogic, and even then, the encode is still less than ideal. Still easily obliterates any prior disc release, but certainly wouldn't hurt to have a UK or German label take a crack at this same master.

Best Audio:

1999 Paramount DVD

Director: Anthony Mann

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray, Universal 2008 DVD

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Audio:

2008 Universal DVD mono

Audio Notes:

The mono on the Criterion is severely filtered resulting in it sounding incredibly muffled. It is nearly as filtered as the 2003 original Universal DVD which had extreme filtering and sounds horribly thin. The 2008 DVD remaster and original Laserdisc analog mastering are mostly left alone. The original LD master is from a worn element but otherwise sounds very natural. The 2008 DVD is the highest quality version we have without the heavy filtering and the defects of the LD master. It isn't perfect but easily the best of the main four sources by a dramatic margin. 

Additional Info:

The existing 4K SDR restoration looks excellent, but the Criterion extras are limited and disappointing. The classic Stewart interview commentary from the LD is ported over but given a new mastering. Compared to past releases it has been very slightly noise reduced.

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Director: Robert Zemeckis

Best English-Friendly & Video:

2D version: Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray

3D version: Warner Bros 3D Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Cinema DTS

Director: Robert Zemeckis

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony 4K Blu-ray

Director: Robert Zemeckis

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Censored: Disney 4K Blu-ray
Uncensored: 35mm scan

Best Audio:

Touchstone Home Video US LaserDisc [940 CS]

Audio Notes:

Touchstone Home Video US LaserDisc [940 CS] has the original stereo

Director: Robert Zemeckis

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Universal 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

LaserDisc

Director: Robert Zemeckis

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Universal 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

LaserDisc

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Best English-Friendly & Video:

2024 Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray

Director: Robert Zemeckis

4K · Excellent

Director: Robert Zemeckis

4K · Disappointing
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Shout! Factory has good PQ, mediocre compression

Director: Robert Zemeckis

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

2020 Universal 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

LaserDisc

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Director: Alex Proyas

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray (30th anniv.)

Director: Steven Spielberg

Best English-Friendly & Video:

US Paramount Blu-ray

Upcoming Release:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray Dec 15th

Video Notes:

US Paramount Blu-ray > International WB Blu-ray

Director: Peter Faiman

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Australia Cut: Australia Fox DVD

International Cut: Paramount Blu-ray

Encore Cut: Germany Winkler Film 4K Blu-ray, censored but good encoding

Sources: movie-censorship.com (opens in a new tab)

Upcoming Release:

US Paramount 4K Blu-ray, is the International US Cut and not the Encore Cut

Best Audio:

Australia Cut: Laserdisc

Additional Info:

The film exists in three versions:
- the original Australian cut (~104 minutes at 24fps/~100 minutes at 25fps);
- the American/international version (~98 minutes at 24fps/~94 minutes at 25fps) trimming some exposition in the Outback first half of the film and some shorter extensions of a few seconds in the New York section, altering some of the dialogue – including censoring a "fuck" to "screw" – but featuring one additional dialogue extension not in the Australian version (a comparison of the two cuts can be found at Movie Censorship);
- the Australian Encore Cut (~95 minutes at 24fps/~91 minutes at 25fps) which uses the international version source so it already has those alterations but also removes approximately three minutes consisting of parts of two scenes featuring Mick grabbing the crotch of a cross-dressing prostitute and a later sequence when he does the same thing at a party to a woman with a deep voice (a comparison of the international version and the Encore Cut can be found at Movie Censorship).

Director: M. Night Shyamalan

Best English-Friendly & Video:

2D version: Paramount Blu-ray

3D version: Paramount 3D Blu-ray

Upcoming Release:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray on October 26 2026

Director: Billy Wilder

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray or Blu-ray

Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray. See caps
HDR/grading: nice, but some blown out
Encoding: inconsistent, smeared motion
DNR: inconsistent, frozen
Old Paramount Blu-ray is arguably a solid alternative choice

Best Audio:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray mono

Audio Notes:

Paramount 4K Blu-ray mono is different version of the Blu-ray mono from the same old 2000 DVD transfer.

Additional Info:

The 5.1 remix on the 4K Blu-ray is an appalling remix done by going wild with artificially generated stems from Park Road Post who were given the surviving mono to separate. The experience is jarring and fidelity to original mix in terms of level balance, directionality and impact is nonexistent. Not only does this sound painfully weird, but the Paramount mixers then did whatever they wanted in terms of LFE, sound pans and effect changes.
The original mono mix was not restored and still needs it badly. The 4K master is filled with frozen grain examples coming and going plus some HDR issues in addition to the usual Paramount problems. It is simultaneously better and worse than the Blu-ray master.

Director: Robert Altman

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Paramount Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Upcoming Release:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray scheduled for Dec 2026 release

Director: Richard Linklater

4K · Solid

Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)

Additional Info:

Germany Blu-ray has English audio 

Germany Blu-ray is part of a 3-film box set like the Criterion but by StudioCanal 

Director: Michael Bay

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Original AR: Paramount 4K Blu-ray

IMAX AR: Paramount 3D Blu-ray

Director: Stanley Donen

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Paramount Blu-ray

Director: Trey Parker

Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

Paramount Blu-ray

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