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Cast Away (2000)

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Reviews Counted:151

Fresh:135

Rotten:16

Average Rating:7.4/10

Consensus: Critics say that by focusing on one man in one setting, Cast Away takes considerable risks, but ultimately it succeeds. Tom Hanks is excellent in the role, and the movie's themes make it larger than a simple physical survivor story.

Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] intense action sequences and some disturbing images

Runtime: 2 hrs 23 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Dec 22, 2000 Wide

Box Office: $233,249,446

Synopsis: 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... 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. Though the conclusion of Chuck's story may not be a conventional Hollywood ending, it is, like life, full of truth, pain and promise. -- © 2000 20th Century Fox [More]

Starring: Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, Nick Searcy, Lari White

Starring: Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, Nick Searcy, Lari White, Chris Noth, Viveka Davis, Valerie Wildman

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Director: Robert Zemeckis
Screenwriter: William Broyles
Producer: Steve Starkey, Jack Rapke, Robert Zemeckis, Tom Hanks
Composer: Alan Silvestri
Studio: 20th Century Fox

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  • English: DTS 5.1 HD Dolby Surround

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Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper | comment Comment
02/07/01
Ebert & Roeper

Cast Away has a marshmallow middle that feels empty at the core.

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12/22/00
Bruce Newman
Bruce Newman
San Jose Mercury News
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...an odd and unbalanced undertaking that pays distinctive attention to the appropriate elements but then draws back at all the wrong moments...

Full Review Source: Cinemaphile.org | comment Comment
02/07/01
David Keyes
David Keyes
Cinemaphile.org

Cast Away is, in many ways, a bold, adventurous bid for Oscardom. Unfortunately, what it delivers for audiences, as opposed to Oscar voters, is a little questionable.

Full Review Source: Seattle Times | comment Comment
12/22/00
Doug Kim
Doug Kim
Seattle Times

A heavy-handed Hymn to the Human Spirit, and a pretty joyless one at that.

Full Review Source: One Guy's Opinion | comment 1 Comment
12/18/00
Frank Swietek
Frank Swietek
One Guy's Opinion

Hanks and Zemeckis begin with an intriguing premise...and, by the film's end, smother that premise under a tidal wave of sentimentality and schmaltz.

Full Review Source: Mixed Reviews | comment Comment
01/26/02
Gabriel Shanks
Gabriel Shanks
Mixed Reviews

Hanks fans may very well love this movie, but it does not fulfill its promise.

Full Review Source: Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine) | comment Comment
07/11/02
Gina Carbone
Gina Carbone
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)

A handsomely made, instructive but finally tedious blow-by-blow training film on island survival that it throws the entire venture out of balance, capsizing the enterprise and making it difficult to keep any kind of message afloat.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment 1 Comment
12/21/00
Kenneth Turan
Kenneth Turan
Los Angeles Times
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Zemeckis is a capable director, so despite the misguided concept, the movie is anything but inept.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment 1 Comment
12/22/00
Mick LaSalle
Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle
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When I prayed to the film divinities that I wanted less Tom Hanks at the movies, I didn't just mean that I wanted him to be thinner.

Full Review Source: Nick's Flick Picks | comment 6 Comments
03/19/03
Nick Davis
Nick Davis
Nick's Flick Picks

In terms of story and pacing, the whole of Cast Away is a lot less then the sum of its parts.

Full Review Source: CNN.com | comment 1 Comment
12/22/00
Paul Clinton (CNN.com)
Paul Clinton (CNN.com)
CNN.com
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While Hanks' performance is masterful in this tale of survival, the movie runs out of steam, and direction, at the end.

Full Review Source: Laramie Movie Scope | comment Comment
01/01/01
Robert Roten
Robert Roten
Laramie Movie Scope

It's really kind of ironic. The old Chuck's life is ruled by the clock. Once he's learned better, we don't get enough time with him because the author's decided it was time to go. Oh, well.

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
12/06/05
Ron Wells
Ron Wells
Film Threat

It was the tail of the tale, the last 25 minutes, that left me marooned.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Report Card | comment Comment
12/18/00
Ross Anthony
Ross Anthony
Hollywood Report Card

The bottom line is that Cast Away is reaching for so many cosmic truths that it never achieves the emotional kick that any survival story must have.

Full Review Source: Movieline | comment Comment
04/16/01
Stephen Farber
Stephen Farber
Movieline

The choppy narrative makes Chuck's ordeal seem more brief than it is. As shown, it's merely the world's worst layover.

Full Review Source: Orlando Weekly | comment Comment
12/21/00
Steve Schneider
Steve Schneider
Orlando Weekly

As they did in Forrest Gump, Zemeckis and Hanks go Big Theme hunting. This time their prey eludes them.

Full Review Source: South Florida Sun-Sentinel | comment Comment
12/22/00
Todd Anthony
Todd Anthony
South Florida Sun-Sentinel

As a FedEx troubleshooter who survives a plane crash, Hanks performs a bravura solo spin.

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12/22/00
USA Today

Thoroughly absorbing.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
02/07/01
Empire Magazine
 
 
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