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Cast Away
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.
2000 · Directed by Robert Zemeckis · 143 min · Adventure · Drama · Screenplay in the scene database · 17 frames
Tagline
At the edge of the world, his journey begins.
Plot
In December 1995, a FedEx courier collects a package from a sculptor, whose gate carries the names "Dick & Bettina". The package, marked with pink angel wings, is delivered to her husband, who is in Moscow with another woman.
Meanwhile, Chuck Noland is a FedEx systems analyst who travels the world resolving productivity problems. He lives with his girlfriend Kelly Frears in Memphis, Tennessee. They talk of getting married but experience setbacks because Chuck is constantly called away to work, straining their relationship. During a Christmas dinner, Chuck experiences a recurring toothache just before he is summoned to resolve a FedEx problem in Malaysia. Before Chuck leaves, Kelly gives him her grandfather's pocket watch with a photo of her in it. He gives her a small box, saying she can wait to open it on New Year's Eve when he returns, implying that it is an engagement ring.
The FedEx cargo plane Chuck boards is off-course and out of radio contact due to a severe storm, and it crashes into the Pacific Ocean, leaving Chuck as the only survivor. He deploys an inflatable liferaft during the crash, but the attached survival kit rips free and is lost. After Chuck washes ashore on a deserted island, he discovers several FedEx packages washing up on shore as well, and eventually the body of one of the pilots, Albert Miller, which he buries. In the following days, Chuck struggles to locate food and water. After seeing a ship far away on the horizon, he tries to escape the island on the inflatable raft but is pushed back by waves, during which his leg is badly injured on a reef and the raft is irreparably punctured.
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Crew
- Written by: William Broyles Jr.
- Cinematography: Don Burgess
- Edited by: Arthur Schmidt
- Music: Alan Silvestri
- Production design: Rick Carter
- Produced by: Tom Hanks, Steve Starkey, Jack Rapke, Robert Zemeckis
Cast
- Tom Hanks as Chuck Noland
- Helen Hunt as Kelly Frears
- Nick Searcy as Stan
- Jenifer Lewis as Becca Twig
- Geoffrey Blake as Maynard Graham
- Peter Von Berg as Yuri
- Chris Noth as Jerry Lovett
- Lari White as Bettina Peterson
- Elden Henson as Elden Madden
- Timothy Stack as Morgan Stockton
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: Russian, English
- Studios: 20th Century Fox, DreamWorks Pictures, Playtone
- Budget: $90,000,000
- Box office: $429,632,142
- Themes: exotic island, suicide attempt, volleyball, survival, remarriage, loneliness, castaway, airplane crash, presumed dead, deserted island
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