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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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In addition to Hanks’ superb acting, amazing cinematography by Don Burgess helps lift this movie above the ordinary.

Full Review Source: ReelTalk Movie Reviews | comment Comment
08/02/02
Betty Jo Tucker
Betty Jo Tucker
ReelTalk Movie Reviews

An awesome movie.

Full Review Source: Window to the Movies | comment Comment
07/12/02
Jeffrey Chen
Jeffrey Chen
Window to the Movies

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 technical marvel with indelible scenes that linger long after the movie has ended.

Full Review Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | comment Comment
06/19/02
Glenn Whipp
Glenn Whipp
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

the usually flashy and fun-loving Zemeckis opts for an almost documentary-style approach here, with cunning use of silence, darkness and the sound of pounding rain to convey Chuck's disorientation and desperation.

Full Review Source: Kalamazoo Gazette | comment Comment
06/15/02
James Sanford
James Sanford
Kalamazoo Gazette

Há um filme belíssimo escondido em Náufrago. Infelizmente, ele está enterrado no meio de duas extremidades que deixam muito a desejar.

Full Review Source: Cinema em Cena | comment Comment
05/31/02
Pablo Villaca
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena

Chuck has flashes of ingenuity that filled me with the thrill of discovery and invention, and stretches of failure that I felt just as acutely.

Full Review Source: Decent Films Guide | comment Comment
05/08/02
Steven D. Greydanus
Steven D. Greydanus
Decent Films Guide

One more project like this (or Gump) and this could be the best actor/director team since DeNiro and Scorsese.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
04/19/02
Collin Souter
Collin Souter
eFilmCritic.com
N/R

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Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | comment Comment
03/24/02
Boston Phoenix

Cast Away isn't the first to recognize our modern need for primal tales, but it is among the most accomplished. It plugs straight into our unplugged fantasies.

Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
03/19/02
Rick Groen
Rick Groen
Globe and Mail

There's something inherently compelling about the situation, even if the movie screwed up on the specifics.

Full Review Source: MovieMartyr.com | comment Comment
03/05/02
Jeremy Heilman
Jeremy Heilman
MovieMartyr.com

Two hours of good movie were only moderately spoiled by thirty minutes of Nora Ephron-style dreck.

Full Review Source: Goatdog's Movies | comment Comment
02/28/02
Michael W. Phillips, Jr.
Michael W. Phillips, Jr.
Goatdog's Movies

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

The script is insightful and unafraid to tackle very serious issues head on. And the performances are brilliant.

Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall | comment Comment
12/10/01
Rich Cline
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

If I didn't know any better I'd say that this film was written in order for Tom Hanks to win yet another Academy Award. Yikes! He may pull it off.

Full Review Source: Cinema Signals | comment Comment
11/27/01
Jules Brenner
Jules Brenner
Cinema Signals

No review available.

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10/30/01
Garth Franklin
Garth Franklin
Dark Horizons

If the stuff on the island is very, very good, let us at least admit that everything else could have been a lot worse. I mean, Ron Howard could have directed it, right?

Full Review Source: Flipside Movie Emporium | comment Comment
10/24/01
Jeremiah Kipp
Jeremiah Kipp
Flipside Movie Emporium

Thank God there's no Friday.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
10/10/01
Scott Weinberg
Scott Weinberg
eFilmCritic.com

I found Cast Away very transporting, all the more so the second time around.

Full Review Source: Film Freak Central | comment Comment
06/12/01
Bill Chambers
Bill Chambers
Film Freak Central

Hanks conducts a master class in acting by showing a man losing his sense of himself in fractional gradations.

Full Review Source: Rolling Stone | comment Comment
06/04/01
Peter Travers
Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
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