Tom Hanks' Forrest Gump Reunion Movie Is Coming To Streaming This Month After $15M Box Office Disappointment

Tom Hanks and Robin Wright will be reuniting on Netflix soon, after their recent box office disaster. The two worked together to create the world-renowned Forrest Gump in 1994. The movie became an instant success, grossing 678 million dollars, while earning critical acclaim along the way. It won six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor. Despite the praise, Hanks and Wright rarely reunited after their breakout success.

While Hanks was known before Forrest Gump, he continued to explode in Hollywood after. In the following years, he starred in Toy Story (1995), Saving Private Ryan (1998), The Green Mile (1999), Cast Away (2000), and numerous other renowned productions. Wright also enjoyed a successful career, accepting essential roles in Unbreakable (2000), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), and Wonder Woman (2017). She also claimed a significant role in House of Cards from 2013 to 2018. In 2024, however, she and Hanks reunited on-screen.

Hanks and Wright’s reunion movie made just $15.4 million on a budget of about $50 million.

For Fans Of…

Forrest Gump and similar historical dramas.
Tom Hanks and Robin Wright.
Director Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump, Who Framed Roger Rabbit)
Unique filming styles and movies that rely on gimmicks

Why You Should Watch Here On Netflix

The Forrest Gump Reunion Is A Unique Love Story

Led by Hanks and Wright, Here is an extremely unique and experimental movie, taking place on one single plot of land and stretching from the age of dinosaurs to the life-long adventures of a single home’s residents. The timeline is extremely expansive, but the emotional core of the movie is its biggest draw. It features love, loss, and reunions that often reflect the tumultuous love lives of the Here characters. Unfortunately, it failed to draw much love from critics, audiences, or the box office. Now, Here is poised to come to Netflix on January 30.

There are serious and repeated critiques about the movie’s visuals. The characters have extreme de-aging technologies applied to them, and it often looks jarring. The movie’s gimmicky nature also does not help to bring much to the story. However, the performance of the cast may be the saving grace that captures the movie’s core, showcasing the hopeful and heartbreaking evolution and contrast of each relationship. With the expensive cast, it still led to a budget of around $50 million, which it failed to earn back at the box office. The movie certainly had potential, but it could not stand out even with its ever-present gimmick.

Still, something is interesting to be found here. The very idea of a follow-up to Forrest Gump that touches on the same themes is certainly compelling. It is worth giving the movie a chance, if only to see what might have been for Forrest and Jenny, had everything not gone wrong. The gimmick of a single location is unique enough that it is worth seeing. With no added cost for viewers to watch a movie on Netflix, the only investment is its under-two-hour runtime. Still, any prospective viewer should lower their expectations.

What Screen Rant has said about Here:

Here’s premise is simple: it’s the story of a single house, its history, and the people who have lived inside or on its land. That includes Richard (Hanks) and his family — parents Al (Bettany) and Rose (Kelly Reilly) and wife Margaret (Wright). The film means well and I could see what Zemeckis was trying to do. There are even parts of the film that work and suggest the potential for something truly meaningful and poignant, but it’s in the half-baked and egregious execution that Here stumbles and falls, taking its entire cast and our goodwill with it. Here Review: Tom Hanks & Robin Wright’s Onscreen Reunion Is An Ugly, Disingenuous Disaster