Cast Away
2000 Directed by Robert Zemeckis
Synopsis
At the edge of the world, his journey begins.
Chuck, 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 ditches at sea during a terrible storm. He's the only survivor, and he washes up on a tiny island with nothing but some flotsam and jetsam from the aircraft's cargo. Can he survive in this tropical wasteland? Will he ever return to woman he loves?
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Poor Wilson
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WILLLLLSSSOOOOOOOOOON!
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Damn, Tom Hanks. Volley balls aren't people. Fuckin' RELAX, guy.
Also... Let me get this straight... You're fine at accomplishing DIY dentistry but you can't kill yourself right? Shit, Tom Hanks. That's fucked up.
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Watching this film was the only time I've ever cried over a vollyball, and that goes a long way to explaining why I found this to be an excellent, heart-wrenching tale of one man's will to live. The overt Fedex product placement is a little distracting, making this whole adventure feel like one big advertisement at times, but it's still a wonderful film.
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By all rights this shouldn't be a 5 star film.
But for one of the best performances in Hanks career, alongside a touching tale of adventure and survival this is pretty close to a perfect film in my mind.
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We have to go back to the island, Kate.
Oops, sorry, got a little confused, there.
I'm probably the last person to have never seen it before, but it's a bank holiday, what better way to spend it than watching all those films you've never gotten around to?
I had seen quite a few parodies, but that didn't make the Wilson scene any less traumatic! Hanks was very good; he had to be seeing as he was the only character on screen for such a large portion of the film! But he pulled it off with a solid and assured performance. He fully deserves all the awards he won for this.
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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This unique film directed by Robert Zemeckis is brave and quite extraordinary. Tom Hanks ilays Chuck Noland, a prompt and well recieved FedEx system analyst who is travelling by cargo plane to Malaysia when a storm cripples the plane and it crashes in the Atlantic ocean.
What follows is an exciting, dramatic, emotional and witty tale of survival against the odds when Noland is washed up on a desert island with only random parcels of cargo that wash up from the plane wreckage, including a volleyball he affectionetly christens as "Wilson", his companion on the island.
Tom Hanks shows he doesnt need co-stars to show how excellent an actor he is in a role that explores aspects of human survival,…
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That part when tooth.
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Deeply emotional and moving.
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Cast Away is one of the best survival stories out there, Tom Hanks, after a plane crash strips away the societal behavior of man and delves deep into true human nature. Hanks struggle with crippling solidarity, and a severe lack of food and water lead him to revert back to his animalistic state in an effort to survive. Would highly recommend.
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Takes a while to get going, but a really masterful performance by Hanks and beautifully shot to boot.
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Chato!
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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Willlllllllllllllllsooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn :(:(:(