Forrest Gump currently beats Cast Away 58–42
The American myth edges out the survival film — Zemeckis's safer bet wins.
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The Verdict Director's Cut
Zemeckis made Forrest Gump as a crowd-pleaser and Cast Away as a formal experiment — the same director, the same star, radically different ambitions. Gump is assembled from American iconography: the park bench, the shrimp boat, the ping-pong table, each setpiece designed to be instantly legible. Cast Away is assembled from nothing: an island, a man, a fire that took forty-five minutes of screen time to light. The crowd-pleaser leads the experiment. Gump gives you more to hold onto. Cast Away gives you more to think about. In a bracket, what you hold matters more than what you think.
The Numbers
| Forrest Gump | Cast Away | |
|---|---|---|
| Head-to-Head | 58% | 42% |
| Overall Win Rate | 62% | 49% |
| Championships | 32 | 17 |
| Avg Decision | 3.2s | 3.5s |
| Budget | $55M | $90M |
| Box Office | $677M | $430M |
Where This Matchup Sits
Forrest Gump sits at #7 in Comedy among 66 on BingeBracket.
From Robert Zemeckis's filmography of 2 films on the platform, Forrest Gump at #1 and Cast Away at #2.
Elsewhere on BingeBracket, both handle Apollo 13 without much difficulty. That shared win gives a sense of the tier this matchup operates at.
Forrest Gump earned 12.3x its budget while Cast Away returned 4.8x. The bigger commercial overperformer also wins the head-to-head on BingeBracket.
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