Forrest Gump

Forrest Gump wears a custom-made white suit in the bench sequence that gives the film one of its most familiar images. Seated at a bus stop on the north side of Chippewa Square in Savannah, Georgia, he begins telling the story of his life to anyone who happens to sit beside him. It is a plain outfit for a man with an improbable tale, which is part of the point. The suit fits the film’s quiet, matter-of-fact way of making the extraordinary look almost ordinary. On that bench, Forrest is simply waiting, talking, and letting the years pass in front of him.