These Forrest Gump Facts Are Better Than a Box of Chocolates

Apple Investments

In the movie, Forrest invests in “some kind of fruit company” which is a nod to Apple. Today, assuming his investment is $10,000, it would be around $2.5 million.

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The More You Know

  • "E.T." and "Poltergeist" started from the same script.
  • There’s a 20 year age gap between Sam Neill and Laura Dern in Jurassic Park, with Laura aged only 26 during filming.
  • While filming Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Shia LaBeouf invested $20,000 in the stock market and ended up making more than $400,000.
  • The names of the taxi driver and the policeman in everybody’s favourite Yuletide outing, It’s A Wonderful Life, are Bert and Ernie. The writers working on Sesame Street at the time claim it’s merely a coincidence.
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