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List Price: $24.98 | | Label: 20th Century Fox
Salesrank: 25320
Released: June 12, 2001 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Tom hanks stars as a fed-ex troubleshooter whose by-the-clock existence abruptly ends when he survives a horrific plane crash and finds himself stranded on a remote island. Four years later fate gives him a chance to rejoin civilization only to find an unexpected emotional challenge greater than what he has endured. Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 06/12/2001 Starring: Tom Hanks Helen Hunt Run time: 143 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Robert Zemeckis
Description of Cast Away (Two-Disc Special Edition):
Cast Away is a good movie that wants to be much better. While director Robert Zemeckis's earlier film Contact achieved a kind of mainstream spiritual significance, Cast Away falls just short of that goal. That may explain why the film's most emotionally powerful scene involves the loss of an inanimate object, even as it presents a heart-rending dilemma in its very human final act.
It's three movies in one, beginning when punctuality-obsessed Federal Express systems engineer Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) departs on Christmas Eve to escort an ill-fated flight of FedEx packages. Following a mid-Pacific plane crash, movie number two chronicles Chuck's four-year survival on a remote island, totally alone save for a Wilson volleyball (aptly named "Wilson") that becomes Chuck's closest "friend." Movie number three leads up to Chuck's rescue and an awkward encounter with his ex-girlfriend Kelly (Helen Hunt, in a thankless role), for whom Chuck has seemingly risen from the grave.
It's fascinating to witness Chuck's emerging survival skills, and Hanks's remarkable physical transformation is matched by his finely tuned performance. With slow, rhythmic camera moves and brilliant use of sound, Zemeckis wisely avoids the postcard prettiness of The Black Stallion and The Blue Lagoon to emphasize the harshness of Chuck's ascetic solitude, and this stylistic restraint allows Cast Away to resonate more than one might expect. Even the final scene--which feels like a crowd-pleasing compromise--offers hope without shoving it down our throats. You may not feel the emotional rush that you're meant to feel, but Cast Away remains a respectable effort. --Jeff Shannon
Cast Away (Two-Disc Special Edition) Reviews:
Gilligan Goes Hollywood 
2009-12-23 - IF someone told me I would enjoy a movie in which the main character (Tom Hanks)spends better than 90% of the time alone - I would've laughed and thought it a ridiculous premise for a movie. But I would've been mistaken...Castaway is a good, family movie, that demonstrates Tom Hanks abilities and leaves no room for doubt as to why he is one of a select group of headliners.
The sole survivor of a plane crash, Fed Ex engineer Chuck Noland finds himself stranded on an uninhabited island, living on coconuts and fish. As days turn to weeks, his well groomed and close cropped hair begins to resemble the straggley, sun bleached tresses of a caveman. His appearance seems to be the physical manifestation of the emotional trauma with which he is struggling... He opens one of the FedEx packages and finds a volleyball, naming it "Wilson," this ball became his best friend, confidant and source of strength. His conversations with Wilson run the gamut, from heartwarming to laugh-out-loud silly.
A good movie !!
A bit disappointing 
2009-12-06 - I love this movie, but in the blu-ray format you see too much. You see all the film grain in the opening scenes and other artifacts throughout the movie. Maybe there is a way to take this out and then put it on blu-ray?
Reviewing the product, not the movie 
2009-11-21 - I'm a big, big fan of this movie, so I was excited to get the blu-ray version, thinking it would be beautiful given the subject and location of the film.
Sadly, this is a blu-ray in technical format only. The transfer looks WORSE than the DVD version I have. That's right, worse. Skip this and wait for some "remastered" (and probably more expensive version).
Again, love the movie, loath the blu-ray transfer.
Something very weird about this movie...
2009-11-20 - Did anybody else notice something strange about this movie? I've been in the kinds of places where most of the scenes of Castaway are set. Tropical islands, beaches, coral reefs. There are always birds, birds, birds everywhere. I don't remember a single bird in the entire movie. Not a gull; not a tern; not a sanderling. In fact no wildlife at all other than some kind of silly lizard and a porpoise. Did they not want to pay off the animal rights loonies or what?
I did enjoy the movie. Much better than average.
A Classic Movie, must see! 
2009-10-08 - This is one of my favorite movies of all times.
It's so sad, but so beautiful.
Those who hasn't seen it, definitely should! Or you're missing out!
I bought it just so others can watch it. It's just so sad but so good.
Tom Hanks just really shows you how good of an actor he is, it's not like he's trying too hard to be good too, he just makes you believe that this really is happening.
All the time and work put into this film, so worth it.
Go watch it!
