This is a beautiful and simple movie about a couple living through the days together, surviving through the good the bad and the Ugly.
I am saddened by the result that to create this movie it destroyed Coppola's dream studio.
Imagine a simple movie from the 50s, with a little bit of metaphor and a big spalsh of Broadway executed to perfection.
I can see Marlon Brando playing the role of Hank, and yet, I think in fantasy cast, Nicolas Cage would have carried the melodrama so naturally, and perhaps, disguised the metaphorical a bit more.
Cage was alive when this movie was made, but he was still a kid, and Brando obviously was too old.
I think Forrest and Garr are both about as good a cast as good be had.