Cast Away

2000

Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance

333
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 84% · 156 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 84% · 250K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.8/10 10 682887 682.9K

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Plot summary

Chuck Noland, a top international manager for FedEx, and Kelly, a Ph.D. student, are in love and heading towards marriage. Then Chuck's plane to Malaysia crashes at sea during a terrible storm. He's the only survivor, and finds himself marooned on a desolate island. With no way to escape, Chuck must find ways to survive in his new home.

Director

Robert Zemeckis Photo
Robert Zemeckis

Top cast

Tom Hanks Photo
Tom Hanks as Chuck Noland
Nick Searcy Photo
Nick Searcy as Stan
Steve Monroe Photo
Steve Monroe as Steve Larson
Wendy Worthington Photo
Wendy Worthington as Wendy Larson
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950.41 MB
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23.976 fps
2 hr 23 min
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1.10 GB
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2 hr 23 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by freakerm 8 / 10

Underrated, excellent movie

Its such a shame that this movie would receive such bad press. The idea of just a man by himself on an island may seem boring and long-winded yet this movie isn't. It touches so many emotions, laughter, sadness, fear, tension. When released it was said to be one long advertisement for FedEx however this movie proves to be so much more than this. With a fantastic soundtrack, great storyline, great acting from Tom Hanks, this movie truly is something fantastic. Maybe a bit of a cliché, other than that the movie appears to be faultless and to find that it didn't make it onto the top 250 saddened me as the movie truly is something to be perhaps even considered a masterpiece.
Reviewed by Taurus-Littrow 9 / 10

An excellent Robinson Crusoe variant

I've always been intrigued with Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe", particularly the importance of the items that Crusoe salvaged from the shipwreck, items that Crusoe could not have made himself and which make his survival and the relative elegance of the life he built for himself quite plausible. The real-life inspiration for Crusoe was one Alexander Selkirk who, in 1704, choose to remain on one of the Juan Fernandez islands - four hundred miles from the Chilean coast - rather than continue on a voyage with a captain and on a ship he did not trust. Selkirk was left with bedding, a firelock rifle, some powder, bullets, tobacco, a hatchet, a knife, a kettle, a Bible, his mathematical instruments, and some books. Selkirk's four years on his own were a bit more austere than Crusoe's fictional life, in large measure because of his relatively meager stock of good quality tools. Selkirk also lost a lot of his social skills.I was interested to see how Cast Away was going to solve the tool issues and how they would deal with a person living on his own for a long period of time. The solutions were simply marvelous: ice skates, volleyball, etc. Tom Hanks is superb in the role.And as a bonus, the castaway's return home is a fascinating part of the story. The driveway scene between Hanks and Helen Hunt is very powerful and reminds me of the great Emma Thompson/Anthony Hopkins 'book' scene from "Remains of the Day". Highly recommended.
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