Cast Away's finest moments consist of Hanks alone with his surroundings.
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
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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Reviews for Cast Away
Under the direction of Forest Gump director Robert Zemeckis, Hanks performance is marvelous.
Director Robert Zemeckis and screenwriter William Broyles Jr. do a great job of keeping the cut-and-dried formula from, well, getting too cut and dried.
Although Cast Away is very much Hanks's extreme everyman solo, his inanimate Man Friday deserves recognition as one of the year's best supporting actors.
The choppy narrative makes Chuck's ordeal seem more brief than it is. As shown, it's merely the world's worst layover.
For a critic quite prepared to dismiss the movie as Robinson Blew So, this comes as the season's most delightful surprise.
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.
A tour de force, a courageous and surprisingly un-self-indulgent exercise in pared-down acting that makes Hanks, yet again, a likely Oscar contender.
A model of restrained storytelling that's studded with a series of pure emotional peaks.
Pulls the audience in with sure-footed storytelling and a commendable performance by Hanks in a very demanding role.
A film brimming over-the-top with realism and features one of our most treasured (and likable) actors, Tom Hanks, in an incredible, virtually silent performance as a survivor.
One thing is bound to come out of Cast Away -- a deserved best actor nomination for Hanks.
Has all the hallmarks of a great motion picture: well-developed characters, solid drama, non-traditional adventure, and an intelligent script.
A heavy-handed Hymn to the Human Spirit, and a pretty joyless one at that.
It was the tail of the tale, the last 25 minutes, that left me marooned.
Hanks has little besides his body at his disposal, and the actor still creates one of the most poignant and tragic characters ever committed to celluloid.
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