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the item submitted to has been blocked by staff.

I saw that Forrest Gump did not have history, comedy, or war listed in its genres. So I submitted those and what I got back was this.

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what does this mean? These genres definitely fit Forrest Gump. 

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4 years ago

It sounds like IMDb has considered these genres before and blocked them.

History definitely doesn't fit, based on IMDb's guideline:

Use of actual persons in an otherwise fictional setting, or of historic events as a backdrop for a fictional story, would not qualify.

https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/titles/genres/GZDRMS6R742JRGAG

The others may be less clear, but the question is probably whether there is comedy in "virtually all scenes" and whether the war is significant enough in the story.

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4 years ago

If I remember correctly the viet nom war drives a large section of the film, and there is comedy in quite a bit of the film.