Cast Away (2000)
Cast Away is an epic drama that follows Chuck Noland an obsessed FedEx executive who goes on a work trip which eventually turns out to be another life for him when he is accidentally stranded in the wilderness.
30 December 1985, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
September 23, 1976 in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
18 May 1933, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
15 June 1963, Culver City, California, USA
1944, Marks, Mississippi, USA
14 May 1947, Davenport, Iowa, USA
17 September 1954, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
1971, Costa Mesa, California, USA
13 May 1965, Dunedin, Florida, USA
May 16, 2012
one-man show
September 25, 2010
As melancholy as it is affirming, "Cast Away" tells a darkly comic, occasionally punishing parable about what happens when humans lose sight of humility in life's grand scheme - an interesting thematic twin to Tom Hanks' own "Joe vs. the Volcano."
March 19, 2002
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.
April 29, 2009
A gripping survival drama and one of my favorites of 2000.
December 22, 2000
The scenes of Hanks' complete isolation on the island, where barely a sound is heard for minutes at a time, are the best thing about Cast Away.
September 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.
December 22, 2000
Cast Away amounts to little more than an unprecedented showcase for its star.
June 04, 2001
Hanks conducts a master class in acting by showing a man losing his sense of himself in fractional gradations.
December 22, 2010
Tom Hanks' powerful, brutal and mature story.
August 07, 2008
The beginning and ending of the film are a bit underdeveloped, but that's just quibbling.
June 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.
December 07, 2009
Remains one of the more vividly transporting films I've come into contact with. It's heartbreaking, darkly comedic, bravely observational, and ultimately, pure emotional poetry.
