Cast Away

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Cast Away

PG-13

2000

2h 23m

Drama

Adventure

Romance

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Obsessively punctual FedEx executive Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) is en route to an assignment in Malaysia when his plane crashes over the Pacific Ocean during a storm. The sole survivor of the flight, Chuck washes ashore on a deserted island. When his efforts to sail away and contact help fail, Chuck learns how to survive on the island, where he remains for years, accompanied by only his handmade volleyball friend, Wilson. Will Chuck ever return to civilization and reunite with his loved ones?

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Critics Consensus

Flawed but fascinating, Cast Away offers an intelligent script, some of Robert Zemeckis' most mature directing, and a showcase performance from Tom Hanks.

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Nell Minow

Common Sense Media

12/22/2010

3/5

Tom Hanks' powerful, brutal and mature story.

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Geoff Andrew

Time Out

06/24/2006

Though Hanks comes across as blandly as ever, at least his solid performance shows he's up to carrying half a movie on his own, and Zemeckis' direction is at first as busily efficient as the protagonist.

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Peter Rainer

New York Magazine/Vulture

09/26/2002

Hanks's Everyman quality has never been more aptly utilized: He's the perfect stand-in for all of us who never made it to Eagle Scout.

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Mike Massie

Gone With The Twins

Aug 23

7/10

It musters some astonishing sequences of beauty and wonderment; the emotional impact of Noland’s acute solitude is remarkable, especially as he struggles to hang on to the tenuous threads of his own sanity.

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Robin Holabird

Robin Holabird

08/11/2021

Hanks earned a well-deserved best actor Oscar nomination, carrying much of the action without talking to anyone but himself for a Wilson volleyball he finds in a washed-ashore Fed-X box.

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Danielle Solzman

Solzy at the Movies

12/22/2020

4/5

Tom Hanks is the perfect actor for the role.

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Spencer D

@spdouglas25 3h

Really good movie. One of Hanks best

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Ali C

@Ali89Club 1d

This film started with a unique and interesting idea, and as always, with the lovely Tom Hanks, who has more weight in this film at the beginning, like the film Terminal, but the relationship can be dealt with more. After the events of the plane, we have a film that is deconstructive, genre-defying, and has a theme that is one of the first in its time. We have a film that is silent and has a very good rhythm that is not boring at all. And Tom Hanks, who is one of the wonders of his acting, was very much liked by reducing that weight and ball, which was later copied in many different films. And I want to describe the ending from my point of view. In the end, he realized that he had to make the most of what was left in life.

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j B

@gosteelers 2d

Good movie. One of tom hanks better films. 9/10

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Samuel P

@TheFabulousWatcher 2d

A well acted movie if perhaps a little dry

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Shon O

@RT99190986 Jul 10

מדהים!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Dan L

@dlee2 Jul 9

Classic filmmaking and storytelling. Wilson!!!

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Synopsis

Obsessively punctual FedEx executive Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) is en route to an assignment in Malaysia when his plane crashes over the Pacific Ocean during a storm. The sole survivor of the flight, Chuck washes ashore on a deserted island. When his efforts to sail away and contact help fail, Chuck learns how to survive on the island, where he remains for years, accompanied by only his handmade volleyball friend, Wilson. Will Chuck ever return to civilization and reunite with his loved ones?

Director: Robert Zemeckis
Producer: Steven Boyd, Jack Rapke, Steve Starkey, Tom Hanks
Screenwriter: William Broyles Jr.
Distributor: DreamWorks SKG
Production Co: Twentieth Century Fox, Playtone Productions, DreamWorks SKG, ImageMovers
Rating: PG-13 (Intense Action Sequences|Disturbing Images)
Genre: Drama, Adventure, Romance
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 22, 2000, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 25, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA): $233.6M
Runtime: 2h 23m
Sound Mix: Surround, Dolby SR, Dolby Digital, Dolby Stereo
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)