Parents guide

A woman takes off her bra in front of a man. There is no nudity shown, only her back is seen, and the scene cuts right after this. She also takes Forrest's hand and puts it to her breasts.

A woman gets on top of a man and they start kissing on a bed, and the scene ends. Both are fully clothed in pajamas but sex is implied.

A woman plays the guitar naked at a club. The guitar covers her frontal sensitive areas fully. Buttocks are shown, mild nudity visible, whole scene is brief and ends quickly.

In a locker room, Forrest and some other guys are implied to be naked. Non-sexual, no nudity.

We hear sex noises coming from a bedroom window, while a child listens.

Another military man says that forest should check out these tits and throws him a playboy magazine a woman's breast and nipple are exposed nipple is hard to see though.

It isn't show on screen but it is implied that a woman gets pregnant because of getting intimate with a man a few years ago.

Jenny makes out with her abusive boyfriend.

90% of the violence occurs during the Vietnam chapter, explosions, gun shots, dead bodies, etc. other than that nothing else happens except (non-graphic) punching and bullying.

A man slaps Jenny and Forrest beats him up briefly.

Forrest finds and saves plenty of soldiers in the jungle. The men have blood on them. One of the men hurts his legs so badly to the point that they had to be amputated.

Real-life footage of a man being gunned down and blood seeping through his shirt is shown for a few seconds.

Forrest runs to a car and he starts punching the driver but he is stopped by Jenny. The reason why he did it because he thinks the driver was hurting Jenny and she claims he wasn't.

Forrest has to carry the injured out of the jungle in a Vietnam war scene and people are seen with bloody wounds on there body caused by gun shots and explosions.

A woman nearly commits suicide by jumping from a building.

Disturbing war imagery with bloody dead people.

Bullies insult, throw rocks at, and chase another boy (one rock hits him in the head and we see a little bit of blood). Later, the boy is shown older and he is again chased by bullies in a car. He manages to escape from the bullies both times, unharmed the second time.

Some other more violent historical events are also shown, including newsreels of George Wallace getting shot (we see some blood) and assassination attempts on Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan. The assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, and John Lennon are also referenced, but not shown.

A few racial slurs are said including the 'n-word'

1 f word along with other minor bad words.

1 use of "Viet-fuckin-nam', 8 uses of shit, 13 uses of hell, 22 uses of goddamn, 7 uses of son of a bitch, 7 uses of ass, 4 uses of damn,1 use of each of 'Jesus Christ' and Jesus H Christ.

A woman is shown snorting cocaine (very briefly).

Bongs, ashtrays, bottles of pills, needles, and other drug paraphernalia are shown a couple times (we never see them being used, however).

A man smokes cigarettes and drinks alcohol in several scenes. We see empty bottles of alcohol littered around his apartment.

Forrest is bullied as a boy for wearing leg braces and having a low IQ, which may upset some viewers

There is some emotional scenes, but it's mainly inspiring and feel-good.

Some war related scenes may be difficult to watch for viewers who have PTSD or are sensitive to gun violence.

Sexual abuse of a child is implied.

A war scene in Vietnam is quite violent and has gunfire, explosions, and shouting. Some bloody wounds are shown and at least one man is killed. Soldiers are later seen seriously injured, and some with missing limbs and bandaged in a hospital. A man's legs are amputated (off screen) as a result of what happened in the aforementioned Vietnam War sequence and he is for some time depicted as being bitter and depressed and as having turned to alcohol to deal with his loss.