CAST AWAY

Year: 2000
USA: Twentieth Century Fox
Cast: Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, Christopher Noth, Nick Searcy, Lauren Birkell, Viveka Davis, Ashley Edner, Fred Smith, Lari White, Valerie Wildman
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Country: USA
USA & UK: 143 mins
USA Rated: PG-13 for intense action sequences and some disturbing images
USA Release Date: 22 December 2000
UK Release Date: 12 January 2001


Synopsis

In CAST AWAY, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Robert Zemeckis and two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks reunite to explore the blessings and heartache of fate and the survival of the human spirit.

Hanks stars as Chuck Noland, a FedEx systems engineer whose personal and professional life are ruled by the clock. His fast-paced career takes him, often at a moment's notice, to far-flung locales -and away from his girlfriend Kelly, played by Helen Hunt.

Chuck's manic existence abruptly ends when, after a plane crash, he becomes isolated on a remote island - cast away into the most desolate environment imaginable. Stripped of the conveniences of everyday life, he first must meet the basic needs of survival, including water, food and shelter. Chuck, the consummate problem solver, eventually figures out how to sustain himself physically. But then what? Chuck begins his true personal journey.

After four years, fate gives Chuck a chance to fight his way back to civilization, only to find an unexpected emotional challenge greater than all the earlier physical ones. His ability to persevere and to hope are a product of his life-changing experience. Though the conclusion of Chuck's story may not be a conventional Hollywood ending, it is, like life, full of truth, pain and promise.