Production Designer Rick Carter explains how they decided to build the house for the movie: Standing in for the fictional town of Greenbow was Varnville, which is about 35 miles outside Beaufort in South Carolina.ĭid you notice how Forrest’s eyes are always closed in photos taken of him? Mama Gump took in boarders to make ends meet, and there was a sign on the front porch that said, “Rooms to Let.” Paramount Pictures leased the land and filmed the movie on it. Besides the town square scenes, which were filmed in Savannah, Georgia, most of the movie was actually shot in South Carolina.īoth the Gump house and Jenny’s farmhouse were built on the 8,000-acre Bluff Plantation on the Combahee River, situated between Varnville and Beaufort, SC. On the DVD special features (Amazon affiliate link) they explain that the house was built in an empty field “hastily and not to code,” so it had to be demolished after shooting ended.Īlso? Brace yourself. The Gump Boarding House where he lived with his single mom (who isn’t given a first name in the movie but was played by Sally Field) looks so authentic in the movie, it’s hard to believe it hadn’t really been sitting there for generations. “We lived about a quarter mile off Route 17,” Forrest says in the movie, “about a half mile from the town of Greenbow, Alabama.” The House from “Forrest Gump” in Greenbow, Alabama Also, there are Amazon affiliate links in this post that may earn me commission. Keep reading to learn all about it and the other filming locations for Forrest Gump, including Jenny’s farmhouse.

Not only is Greenbow a fictional Southern town, but the house was just a temporary structure built for the movie and torn down after filming was over. But I’m afraid I’ve got some bad news on that front… People want to know all about Forrest Gump’s house, like where it’s located in Alabama and whether they can visit it. I know my readers haven’t because I still get so many questions about it.

It’s been more than 25 years since the movie Forrest Gump hit theaters in 1994, but who could forget that big old Southern house with the double porches in Greenbow, Alabama?

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