with special appearances by robert zemeckis and tom hanks! featuring louis cato and "the late show" band. and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ♪ ♪ >> stephen: oh! thank you very much. please have a seat. thank you very much. welcome. welcome one and all to "the late show." i'm your host, stephen colbert. [cheering] i certainly hope you're all doing well. i know everyone's still in a state of shock. we're concerned for the future of our institutions and whether the country we all love is ever going to be the same. and sadly, these dramatic changes have already begun, because tgi fridays has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy. what? but if there are no more tgi fridays, what are we gonna thank god for now? i don't understand. wednesday? we're too busy humping! god doesn't want to see that! i tell you what. but we should have known this was coming. the signs were all there. would a just and loving god allow the existence of the cotton candy cosmo? when they heard this news, in solidarity, outbac

"here" directed by robert zemeckis, costarring robin wright.e first time! >> tom: throw up the first one. >> stephen: 30 years after "forrest gump." no change. one, two. there you go! absolutely. there we are. no difference whatsoever. >> tom: it's like the band is back together again except we are not performing "please, please me." we're performing the white album. it is a slightly different thing. >> stephen: fifth movie with zemeckis, obviously there must be some profound connection there. what is it? >> tom: this is what bob does to me all the time. he says, "you know, you know what we should do? you know, if you have any like -- if we had any balls, what we would do is, you know what we would do -- we would make, you would make half of the movie fat, and then we would take a year off and then you would just, you would just get really skinny and then you come back and we'll do the second half of the movie. if we had any balls." that's how we made "cast away." >> stephen: first it was just be fat, then skinny. >> tom: it wasn't the opposite

that was the new trailer for the new robert zemeckis movie, "here." oining us now, the film's lead actors, robert wright, and its director, robert zemeckis. robert and then robin , take me here, tell us about it. >> here is a story based on a graphic novel by richard mcguire. the premise of the movie is that the audience, the viewer watches centuries and generations passed from one fixed place in the world. at the core of the story is the one between tom hanks and robin , but what we see passing through our view is time and life, and things that happen as life goes on. >> robin? >> i love listening to you. we all have a great synopsis. it is that, but every life experience we could ever have in a family is what takes place in front of you. you are watching the evolution, not only of the world, coming to and from, so it is not chronologically. you will be in 1962, and tom and i are 18 years old, with the help of visual effects, and then boom, you have this cool, robert zemeckis transition shot of lightning bolts and you are suddenly with the dinosaurs.

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robin wright forest in jenny then are reunited with their oscar winning director robert zemeckis basedchard mcguire, graphic novel. kids uses cutting edge technology to tell the story of thousands of years on one piece of land from the dinosaurs to the small house where 3 generations of family come and go as in forrest gump. moments of history in this movie are seen and heard on television, but they're not the primary focus. it's almost hard to tell what is the transition from one era to another. never let you connect or care about the characters, the story lines that were felt fully developed. >> hanks and right. get digit lead e aged, which is interesting. but mostly i found distracting here had a lot of potential but never delivered much of it. it's a dean's list. c minus as always. you can get my movie reviews and home video picks sent right to your phone's every week. >> just by texting the word, dean to 9, 7, 9, 9, 9, and i hope you have a great weekend in chicago and dean richards. 10, 50 is the time the annual report card about bay area. roads says that there's actually been no

. >> forrest gump's tom hanks and robert zemeckis have done it again. >> here is a cinematic marvel unlike anything you've ever seen now. >> rated pg 13. >> hi. >> it's that time of year again. the medicare annual enrollment period. you might be thinking why should i care? well, if you're 65 or older or on medicare you should, because the annual enrollment period, which is right now is when you can change your medicare plan and the annual enrollment period ends december 7th. so ask yourself, do you have the coverage you need? >> are you getting all the things you want and need from your medicare plan? maybe you don't even know what kinds of things are available to you. that happens medicare can be confusing. >> do you know about medicare part c plans, also called medicare advantage? >> a part c plan can help you save money and include additional benefits. >> that sounds pretty good right? but plans and benefits can be different based on the zip code you live in and medicare plans can change every year. oh, and enrollment in a part c plan is not automatic. this can all be a little overwhelm

forrest gump's tom hanks and robert zemeckis have done it again. >> here is a cinematic marvel unlike anything you've ever seen now. >> rated pg 13. >> when a tough car finds you on the go, it would be silly. >> hey trying to rob a dozen statues packed with the power of robitussin and every bite easy to take, cough relief anywhere. chew on >> dogs and cats are part of our family, so we want to take care of them. veterinarians tell us that spaying and neutering is an essential part of keeping our pets healthy and safe, and prevent certain cancers and other health problems. spay and neuter helps with behavior issues, prevents roaming and going into heat. spayed and neuter pets means fewer cats and dogs getting there aren't enough homes. spay neuter surgeries are safe even for puppies and kittens, and are available in your community for low or no cost. for more information visit caps weborg erin burnett out front tomorrow at seven on cnn in battleground nevada, where kamala harris is about to take the stage. >> both harris and trump in nevada tonight. but they're both going to be in wisc

. >> forrest gump's tom hanks and robert zemeckis have done it again here is a cinematic marvel unlike anything you've ever seen now. rated pg 13 cnn news central next >> republican vice presidential candidate jd vance is facing some pushback this morning after making some eyebrow raising comments during his three hour interview on the joe rogan podcast that aired thursday. vance suggested that white, upper and middle class students are incentivized to identify as transgender to get admission into elite u.s. colleges he also said this frankly i wouldn't be surprised if me and trump won just the normal gay guy vote because again, they just wanted to be left the hell alone. and now you have all this crazy stuff on top of it that they're like, well, no, no, no, we didn't. we went we didn't want to give pharmaceutical products to nine year olds who are transitioning their genders. we just wanted to be left the hell alone. >> all right. so let's watch also what he said about admission to colleges and the incentives around people who identify as transgender. watch if you are a you know, midd