Cast Away Movie
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At the edge of the world, his journey begins.
Hanks stars as Chuck Noland, a FedEx systems engineer whose personal and professional life are ruled by the clock. His fast-paced career takes him, often at a moment's notice, to far-flung locales - and away from his girlfriend Kelly, played by Helen Hunt. Chuck's manic existence abruptly ends when, after a plane crash, he becomes isolated on a remote island - cast away into the most desolate environment imaginable. Stripped of the conveniences of everyday life, he first must meet the basic needs of survival, including water, food and shelter. Chuck, the consummate problem solver, eventually figures out how to sustain himself physically. But then what? Chuck begins his true personal journey. After four years, fate gives Chuck a chance to fight his way back to civilization, only to find an unexpected emotional challenge greater than all the earlier physical ones. His ability to persevere and to hope are a product of his life-changing experience.
| Tom Hanks | Chuck Noland |
| Helen Hunt | Kelly Frears |
| Nick Searcy | Stan |
| Viveka Davis | Pilot Gwen |
| Paul Sanchez | Ramon |
| Lari White | Bettina Peterson |
| Leonid Citer | Fyodor |
| David Allen Brooks | Dick Peterson |
| Yelena Popovic | Beautiful Russian Woman |
| Semion Suradikov | Nicolai |
| Peter Berg | Yuri |
| Dmitri S. Boudrine | Lev |
| François Duhamel | French FedEx Loader |
| Michael Forest | Pilot Jack |
| Jennifer Choe | Memphis State Student |
| Robert Zemeckis |
7.30 out of 10 (40285 votes)
Visitor Reviews
A shameless FedEx Commercial with a great advertisement for Wilson sporting goods thrown in!
posted on 26 Aug 2009I am outraged at watching this horrible sell-out movie that serves the purpose of making money and promoting FedEx as a saintly company. It starts out watching the efficent delivery of a package. Then Tom Hanks giving speeches about packages not even being a minute late and FedEx can not be like the postal service. Hell, the movie makes it painfully obvious he cares more about FedEx then his girl. Then the FedEx plane crashes. He is stranded and FedEx packages float to shore and save him. On the way he makes friends with a wilson volleyball and the sell-out director even goes low enough to name the ball "wilson", so you can be reminded what brand the freaking ball is! Then he gets back on a FedEx plane. FedEx people give speeches about him. Then after breaking up his girl, he goes to deliver a FedEx package. This delivery of the package that "saved" his life, leads him to another romantic interest just in the nick of time. What am I saying? FedEx is god. This movie warped my fragile little mind. I can't wait until all movies, songs and book are about companies!
Hanks does it again
posted on 18 Aug 2009This movie was amazing ... I really enjoyed it .Tom Hanks is such a talented actor that he can pull off talking to a volleyball for much of the movie......Pay close attention to the begining and the end.. I have read alot where people do not understand the ending much(go to the boards here ,a user whose name i can not recall who wrote something that helped me better understand it) I took my ten year old to this movie...she refused to leave and go to the bathroom for fear of missing something).....
Cast Away will take you by storm!
posted on 16 Aug 2009This is possibly the best movie experience I've had in the year 2000. Almost every aspect of the movie made me smile at how wonderfully it was made. I was thinking throughout the movie possible endings that would take place, mostly cliches from other similar movies, and I was amazed that none of them actually happened, or at least I thought the movie was very original. Cast Away will make you think about life, and how some things are taken for granted no matter how simple or useful they are. Tom Hanks is one of the best actors out there today, and he proves it again in Cast Away in the way he transforms into his character. I might have enjoyed this just because Tom Hanks is my favorite actor (along with Denzel Washington), but I really recommend this movie for the holidays.
Cast Away: about as thrilling as a nap
posted on 12 Aug 2009Well, Tom Hanks acting was good, the location was good, and the photography was good. However, I found the movie to be long, dull, plodding....a collection of cliches. The story seemed stagnant and unoriginal, and there seemed to be numerous chunks of the film that should have fallen to the cutting room floor.Not a bad film, but not a good film either, at least insofar as entertainment value goes.
Lack of the Survival aspect.
posted on 12 Aug 2009While Cast Away is an entertaining film the love story portion between the Tom Hanks character and Helen Hunts character seemed (getting down to brass tacks) to do very little for the over all story. The ending, which was also pointless, went on way too long and likewise served no purpose. The film shows that Hanks Chuck Noland survives for four years on the island but offers only glimpses as to how he does it. Instead of a tale of survival the viewer is given the old standard two people in love separated by an act of fate with one eventually giving up and finding someone else then the other returns looking for their old flame. This picture does not rank up there as a great movie about survival but it seems it could have had that been the emphasis.
Practically a one-man show
posted on 31 Jul 2009I won't say that this is a "desert island" favorite, this is about the last thing you want to see if you got stranded! It's really a major accomplishment for the director Zemekis and Hanks making the film seem vast and isolated without bogging down. If Forest Gump didn't convince you that Tom Hanks is one of the most skilled and credible actors in modern history, if not of all time, then you need to watch this picture to set you straight. Little details build up in this film to add to the realism. The story involves Hanks' as a corporate worker-bee becoming stranded on a small island in the Pacific. The depiction of his day-to-day survival and acceptance of circumstances with occasional moments of great learning prove a crucial element in the pacing of the film. His gradual mastery over his environment also increases the audience's sense of participation in the drama. He learns how to help himself survive.Sure, it's a low-energy emotional performance for most of the picture, but the weight of the film is all on Hanks and the shoot looks pretty physical. In fact, they shot part of the film and then went back a year later, giving Hanks enough time to drop weight to look sufficiently half-starved.The audience can clearly see his early mistakes in prioritizing his survival tools on the island. His delay in learning to build a signal fire costs him dearly, like his poor priorities in "real" life cost him. The film is a rewarding survival story and comment on modern life. If nothing else, this film encourages the examination of your life and may make you want to learn how to build a fire or carry a multi-tool with you at all times.
True to life
posted on 29 Jul 2009A very well crafted film. There were absolutely no shortcuts taken in the plot, something I admire greatly. Every response was true to the characters. The acting was superb. The crash was one of the most frightening scenes I have ever seen. Someone I talked to (who hadn't seen the film) said he heard that scene dragged on. I replied that I too had wanted it to end, but not because it was dragging, but because it was truly horrifying -- maybe that's what they meant. Great filmmaking.
Biggest load of crap wrapped up in Hollywood Glitter
posted on 19 Jul 2009Made for typical North American movie-goers who can not tell the difference between pure Kitch and a well made movie.( Just like all Tom Hanks movies). Offers no intelectual challenge whatsoever as everything is already "chewed" for the viewer. Basically, a person with 0 IQ would get it without difficulty.
the whorst movie ever
posted on 13 Jul 2009Why do we have to pay for a commercial by FEDEX. 80 minutes out of the 110 minutes this movie is a commercial for FEDEX. I feel very bad about Tom Hanks giving his credibility to a project like this. Does he really need the money this bad that he sign up for a movie like this.
Cast Away, directed by Robert Zemeckis (What Lies Beneath, Forrest Gump), takes the viewer alongside its protagonist to witness a dramatic physical, psychological and emotional transformation
posted on 09 Jul 2009A FedEx systems engineer, Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) has efficiently built his life around the clock. Driven by his commitment toward punctuality, Chuck succeeds in maintaining his company's reputability, often putting on hold his love life with Kelly (Helen Hunt: Pay It Forward). Chuck's priority is reaffirmed when he decidedly interrupts a Christmas Eve dinner, as he is unexpectedly summoned to attend to an important business duty overseas. Chuck's life takes a dramatic turn that night, when his airplane crashes into the sea. Managing to surface from the sea unharmed, Chuck reaches an isolated island. Alone and away from civilization, Chuck is forced to test his adaptability skills, find the drive to survive, and rediscover the timeless qualities of life.Cast Away relies on location --the extreme nature of its settings, such as the hostile sea and an isolated island-- to create a story that focuses on the mental and physical processes of its protagonist as he confronts physical isolation. Due to the simplicity of its premise (a man who is stranded in an island must learn to adapt in order to survive), Cast Away finds its meaning in the mechanics of its character's adaptability. Specifically, Cast Away focuses on the step-by-step survival, which mostly involves securing food, seeking shelter and making a fire. The camera seldom pulls away to objectify a scene, follows its subject's evolution closely, and resists cutting to scenes outside of the protagonist's new world. (Once the character has reached the island, the only images reminding the viewer of civilization are the objects inside a few FedEx packages that float onto the shore.) In this manner, Cast Away establishes an intimate relationship between its protagonist and the viewer. Cast Away uses an extended ellipsis of time to dramatize the character's transformation, demonstrating that by taming Nature he has learned to satisfy his needs, and that by obeying his imagination he has managed to protect his sanity. In this sense, Cast Away offers an intriguing commentary on modern man's ability to return to his primitive origins. The film's realism is enhanced by the use of natural sounds, which are only replaced by external music one hour and a half into the film.Aside from these strengths, Cast Away suffers from mawkish sentimentality in those scenes that attempt to moralize its character. In one scene, Chuck finds a card inside a FedEx package, which reads: "The most beautiful thing in the world is the world itself." In a later scene, when Chuck realizes he must calculate the rhythm of the rise and fall of the tide in order to safely sail away, he is reminded of his company's motto: "Let's not commit the sin of turning our back on Time." These advisory proclamations disrupt the more effectively established non-communication between two detached worlds. In spite of this, the film's additional exploration (toward the end) of society's readiness to cast away its absent member, adds poignancy to the overall drama. Due to Hanks' accurate performance and his physique's notable transformation, Cast Away may be seen as a film that carefully constructs its story around character: its most exploited asset.
Robinson Crusoe retold
posted on 09 Jul 2009Tom Hanks is Chuck Noland, a man in a hurry.His job for Federal Express has him traveling the world on a moments notice, exhorting the company's employees to speed things up - "Never turn your back on the clock".When he's suddenly called away for business on Christmas night, his tolerant longtime girlfriend Kelly (Helen Hunt) drives him to the airport.They have their Christmas in the car - and Chuck plunks an engagement ring into her lap right before he gets on the plane telling her, "I'll be right back".But an unexpected storm cuts the planes crew off from radio contact and blows them off course.Chuck is the sole survivor of the resulting crash, and washes up on a completely deserted island.Stranded there, he must give up everything that he took for granted and learn how to survive all alone in the wilderness.
This movie should be cast away...
posted on 07 Jul 2009First of all, let me say that I generally enjoy Tom Hanks films. (Well, not "The Burbs" or "Joe Versus The Volcano ... and, oh, yeah, "Dragnet" and "Volunteers" ... but I digress.) However, as to this flick, let me just quote the Tom Hanks character from "Big": "I don't get it."*****************************ATTENTION!!!*********************************************************SPOILER COMING UP***************************OK, so Chuck Noland's stranded on the island for several years. He builds the raft and finally escapes. By sheer luck he's picked up by a cargo ship. In the next scene fiancee Kelly gets a call informing her Chuck's still alive, and she faints. Flash to the next scene "Four Weeks Later." Chuck's sitting on the FedEx plane headed back to Memphis. Yet, as far as we know, he hasn't already spoken to Kelly. He also hasn't spoken to his pal Stan. For all we know, Chuck hasn't spoken to anybody since he was rescued. Don't they have ship-to-shore telephones on cargo ships? Or was Chuck confined to a hyperbaric chamber for four weeks? This movie made absolutely no sense.***************************SPOLILER COMPLETED**************************If you want to rent a good Tom Hanks film, I'd choose "Mr. Mom." Wait, that was Michael Keaton...
Very nice indeed
posted on 05 Jul 2009this is a great movie, the best in a long time. ready for an experience that you only have once in a long while at the movie theatre? go see Cast Away. The collaboration of both Tom Hanks and Robert Zemeckis together again is wonderful and enchanting. with the flavour of humour that these two bring to the screen, makes be wonder why this is only the second movie together. get out and see it will yah!
Much Ado About Nothing...
posted on 29 Jun 2009Before seeing the result of a new cooperation between Hanks and Zemeckis I read lots of reviews and praises about this film. My opinion is: It is the ordinary Hollywood mainstream movie targeted at the average America's audience (by the way, in Europe this movie did not score at all).The first "let's meet our hero" part is just terrible. The worst part is about the FedEx guy's visit to Moscow. Hey, Mr. Zemeckis..it is year 2001 now, and you show Russia as it is 20 or 30 years ago. The most ridiculous thing is a lorry stuck in the middle of the Red Square (as far as know, there's no traffic there!) and Tom Hanks "the savior of under-developed Russians" paying his employees with bars of Mars and cans of Coke. Hey...this is nominee number 1 for the worst movie of the year!Then we see Helen Hunt with another non-convincing performance this year (I think her popularity this year is a big mistake of the studios' casting). She tries (without success) to show at least some emotions towards her husband played by Hanks. But it seems like Ms. Hunt read her script just before shooting somewhere in between her other numerous movies, because her acting is not convincing at all.Then we are supposed to be stunned by crash-scene, after which the "one-actor" show begins. I do not think that Tom Hanks is a bad actor, but his level is not high enough to carry the weight if mega-million dollars' movie alone. For sure, this part of the film contains lots of stereotypes about "a-la Robinson" situations. For almost one hour we see how Mr.Hanks learns to make a fire, to open the coconut shells, etc, etc. In fact, Discovery Channel would do this part of the movie in a better way.Then our hero fights with the ocean, loosing his companion, Willson-ball, which was supposed to be a very touching scene. Then our hero is happily home, being saved in the middle of the ocean. His wife is already married, and here it's better to stop the movie, but the director uses the audience's patience for another half-hour, posing some moral questions (finally!) if it is good to ruin new family of his ex-wife.Overall, the movie is boring with exception of some moments (10% of the movie or so). After leaving the theater I just felt like I left an American-style fast-food, feeling lots of food in my stomach but being unable to recall the taste of food. Same here: expensive movie longer than 2 hours with nothing to recall in couple weeks. Indeed, this year was not good for Hollywood.
Really good flick
posted on 27 Jun 2009I really enjoyed this movie. It didn't have the best dialogue (well, of course not. He was stranded alone on an island) and it didn't go into some aspects that I would have liked for it to have gone into, but it was definately captivating. It is one of those movies that you would be willing to postpone going to the restroom just so you can see what's going to happen next. I would give it a strong 8 on a 10 pooint scale. (My wife gives it an 8.5)
just don't see the trailer
posted on 27 Jun 2009This technique has worked for me on the last Robert Zemeckis films, What Lies Beneath and Cast Away, movies that reveal all their secrets on their trailers because of some really stupid philosophy that Zemeckis has about moviegoers...so when I was in the theater and they showed this trailers I just closed my eyes...that allowed me to enjoy his films when I finnally saw them...Cast Away may not be one of Zemeckis best films, but it's not a bad movie, as so many people here is saying, it's pretty good, and I definetely liked it a lot. of course, much of it is Tom Hanks, in an acting tour de force that will probably (and deservedly) earn him his third oscar...From the reviews I've read here, people that didn't like the ending usually didn't understood a thing of the whole movie since they complain also about lack of psychological an emotional questionings (the movie is full of those things!!!!)and soem people even complain that the movie didn't ended in what they would have interpreted as a happy ending...I mean, this movie HAS a happy ending, it's just not a conventional one...I have to say that this is Hank's best performance yet, and that my respect for him as an actor has grow incredibly because of it... (forget Forrest Gump or Saving Private Ryan, in this one he proves himself finnally as one of the best actors in the world).
Mr. Wilson.... thumbs down
posted on 27 Jun 2009Oh boy. Another Tom Hanks film.'Cast Away'... it received a lot of positive feedback when it came out, but it's suddenly been forgotten now. Even Mr. Wilson, the star of the film, couldn't bring the audience back and keep them. Mr. Wislon even put on better acting than Tom Hanks - nothing personal against the man, but there for a while, he was cast away in similar roles of the unsung hero type.'Cast Away' certainly isn't a great film. It was enjoyable to watch for a little while. It even did a decent job of observing a man stranded on a deserted island. It even had a fairly happy ending. If you're in for these types of romanticized films, you'll probably think this is a pretty decent movie. Personally, I wouldn't recommend it and say that anyone has to see this film.Mr. Wilson was the star. He needs to come out in a film all of his own.
Another confusing ending for Zemeckis (probable spoilers)!
posted on 13 Jun 2009Just had the opportunity to see Cast Away with my wife. She liked it, and I wanted to like it, but the ending completely baffled me (but then again, most Zemeckis films wind up baffling me somehow).The character Tom Hanks played, Chuck Noland, was quite believable, and most certainly well-acted. The scenes where he's by himself on the island were quite intriguing in the fact that he carried an entire hour of the movie alone, with no one to interact with (except "Wilson", of course).Kelly, portrayed by the usually-uplifting Helen Hunt, was a very drab and even somewhat unnecessary character. Obviously, as the love interest, she was needed, but when Chuck got back to civilization, she might as well have been dead herself. The scenes with the two of them after he returns just seemed superfluous to the story.But this all brings me to the ending, where Chuck is on the back-roads of Texas, delivering his final package to an "angel" of sorts. First of all, don't get me started on the package. The moviemakers could have at least let us SEE what was in the box, but noooo... Anyways, I didn't quite get the ending. What were Chuck's thoughts at that moment? Obviously, he's reached a crossroads, but from where? And to where? I honestly felt stranded on an island when I walked out of that film. The ending did NOT satisfy, and in fact, I just didn't get it.
An almost perfect film
posted on 13 Jun 2009This is one of the biggest hits of the year, so I'm not going to waste time with a description of the plot.Let's begin.Basically, the first twenty minutes are boring, then Tom Hanks gets on the plane, and the moment the plane begins to experience trouble, this film is a technical masterpiece right up until he leaves the island. Yes, sorry, he does get off the island, but this shouldn't come as a surprise since the trailer ruined that shock before the film even opened.Tom Hanks is washed ashore and the next hour and a half results in one of the most amazing pieces of film making ever. Tom Hanks is brilliant in what could have been a one dimensional role; Robert Zemeckis directions with another firm hand; and, above all, I got really attached to that damn volleyball, so kudos to the film makers on that, too.But, then he gets off the island, and it's another twenty/thirty minutes until the film finally resolves itself - Hanks has to get back to the girl he left waiting for him, even though it's been four years, played by Helen Hunt. Now, I like Helen Hunt, she's a fine actress, but she's terribly overrated. If someone could tell me why she won an Oscar for As Good As It Gets, I would like to know because every character she ever plays, regardless of the film, is the Jamie Buchman character from Mad About You. She's wasted here, with hardly more than a cameo, and the film suffers as a result.The trailer ruined what could have been a perfect film, since there's no surprise that he gets off. But the film almost collapses on it's own with a weak opening act, and a terrible third. This film would have been far better off if the hanks character had been on the plane in the very begginning, and the movie ending with him getting off. Hell, even though 3/4 of the movie was spent on the island, the film makers could have shot an extra half hour of stuff, slapped it in, rather than the weak first and third act, because everything on the island is perfect.The rest is weak, contrived, Hollywood tripe.All in all, a good movie, that is great if you fastforward the first twnety minutes and shut it off after he gets off the island. Hanks deserved an Oscar, hands down. And so did that damn volleyball.I was impressed with how the film makers managed to surpress any shark attacks, since it has become a Hollywood cliche. I would love to give this film a 10/10, but due to the first and third acts, I can only give it an 8. Still, highly recommended, but I recommend having the remote in your hand.
Be Cast Away With This
posted on 28 Aug 2009A FedEx executive (Hanks) travels around the world to test the various international shipping offices and make sure they're shipping in a timely manner. An accident, however, leaves him stranded on a remote island for four years. This story looks at how a man must evolve in isolation in order to survive... and when he gets back, how he has to deal with having been away from his fiancée (Hunt) for several years. Having to become friends with a volleyball, Chuck starts to cope with the idea of might never leaving the island ever. This movie was very touching and very good. My advice is to see it over and over again. Cast Away 10/10