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Cast Away is a 2000 survival drama film starring Tom Hanks as Chuck Noland, a FedEx systems analyst who is stranded on an island after his plane crashes. The film explores his attempts to survive and return home, and his relationship with a volleyball named Wilson.
Jun 26, 2022 · Chuck Noland is a FedEx employee who gets stranded on an island after his plane crashes. The movie is not based on a true story, but on a script by William Broyles Jr. and Tom Hanks' imagination.
Sep 26, 2023 · Cast Away is a movie about FedEx executive Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) who is stranded on a deserted island for four years. The film draws on the experiences of real-life explorers like Robinson Crusoe and Alexander Selkirk, as well as the research and isolation of the writer William Broyles Jr.
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- Tom Hanks didn't want to tell a standard story with Cast Away. In an interview with The Guardian, Tom Hanks explained, “Because there is a standard way of telling this story, and that’s to have a rich, snotty guy who’s obviously not in touch with what’s important and blah, blah, blah, and then he learns a lesson and he’s not like that anymore.
- Cast Away screenwriter William Broyles Jr. stranged himself on an island, for research purposes. William Broyles Jr. spent several days alone in Mexico’s Sea of Cortez trying to fend for himself.
- The entire theme of Cast Away comes from two words. Broyles told the Los Angeles Times the last two words Noland utters—“thank you,” to a woman in a truck—sum up the movie.
- FedEx was cool with the free product placement in Cast Away—and the plane crash. At the time of filming, a FedEx plane hadn’t actually crashed like that in real life—though in 2009 two crew members died in a crash and in August 2015 a plane crashed into the Caribbean Sea—but the company didn’t want to draw attention to the fact that it could happen.
Cast Away: Directed by Robert Zemeckis. With Paul Sanchez, Lari White, Leonid Citer, David Allen Brooks. A FedEx executive undergoes a physical and emotional transformation after crash landing on a deserted island.
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- Adventure, Drama, Romance
- Robert Zemeckis
- 2000-12-22
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Chuck Noland is the main character of the 2000 movie Cast Away, played by Tom Hanks. He is a FedEx employee who survives a plane crash and spends four years on a deserted island, facing challenges and hardships.
