Cast Away (DVD)

...main acting cast) - Cast Away stars Tom Hanks as Fed Ex employee Chuck Noland, who lives a very hectic and stressful life, travelling around the globe, delivering packages. That is until one day, when his flight encounters problems, entering a storm that quickly turns nasty and results in the plane crashing into the ocean below. Chuck manages to survive, remarkably with only very minor injuries all things considered and climbs aboard an empty ...
...- Certificate - Cast Away is rated 12 in the UK. This is due to some dramatic scenes, which may scare or disturb young children and due to some disturbing images, which are mainly of wounds inflicted on Chuck. As I mentioned under thoughts and opinions above, if you don't like the sight of blood you'll have to look away a few times but its not something thats present so much it should overly put you off watching the movie, its only present in a ...

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...The directing in Cast Away is very good, the pace is very slow to reflect the life on a desert island. The only problem being too slow at times. Overall Opinion *************** The acting is good and this is a must see for Tom Hanks fans. I can understand why this did not receive rave reviews from everybody, there are a few dull moments. However, you do get drawn in to Nolands fight to survive. When he starts talking to the volley ball you can almost ...
...the film is long, perhaps a little too long owing to the nature of the pace. Definitely not for action fans this is a film that really is meant for video and it will be available to buy on 29th October this year. Personally, I would just rent it out as there is not much that would entice you back for a second viewing. Why suitable for video? Because once again I must emphasise it is long and it is slow. You will need a few tea breaks and leg stretches ...

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...to watch, with interview with cast and crew and behind the scenes footage of them making the movie. Surival Guide: Suvival Expert teach the screenwrites about many different way to survive on a deserted island. This is extremely interesting, and would help out alot, in the unlikely event that it happened to you. Special Effects: This explains about the many special effect used in the film, although while watching you don't even notice that it uses ...
...also interviews with Tom Hanks, and the usual Special Features such as trailers and story boards. This disk adds extra to the film and makes you appreciate it much more, which is a very good thing so it deserves 4 out of 5 also. (Also Posted on dooyoo) ...

Leigh36295 16.03.2008 (21.03.2008) · Read full review
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...*Surviving as a cast away. This is a documentary, on how things would happen in the film, and why. *Wilson the life and death of a Hollywood star. This is all about the ball, that Chuck called Wilson, which turned out to be his only companion on the island. Why it was put in the film. *On Location. This shows the island, the location and the people that owned the island. Permission had to be requested to film on the island, as no people had ever ...
...*Storyboard comparison. How the film compares to the storyboard. *Trailers. These are the ones shown to promote the film. The running of this film is 2 hours and 18 minutes. My opinon. I was really happy, when my girlfriend bought this film for me, for Christmas. I had seen it once before, but really wanted my own copy. Like I said to start iwth, it is nicely priced at £19.99 for two discs. I believe this to be great value. I wouldn't have minded ...

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...make the film so engrossing. Cast Away is a very powerful film which shows man's dependencies on modern life but when these things are removed his natural survival instinct is shown. The star of Cast Away is Tom Hanks (Philadelphia) who puts in a virtuoso performance as Chuck Noland, the man stranded on the remote island. Hanks lost an amazing fifty pounds during the filming of Cast Away to make his appearance after 4 years more realistic. The film ...
...ball. The real supporting cast only appear in the opening and closing scenes of the film and includes the likes of Helen Hunt (What Women Want) and Nick Searcy (Runaway Jury). Although they don't appear on screen for long, the performances from the supporting cast are very good and help to create the character of Chuck both before and after being stranded. The film is directed by Robert Zemeckis who also worked with Hanks on Forrest Gump. It seems ...

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I'm sure you don't need to be told the 'jist' of this latest vehicle for Hollywood's most expensive actor, Tom Hanks, but here it is anyway. No need to worry, though, as there's not much to tell. Hanks plays determined FedEx extraordinaire Chuck Noland - a man obsessed with getting those little white boxes delivered on time; a man who's not afraid, we discover, to bend the rules if it means he meets a deadline, but a man, above all, with a heart ...
...gasps. And wow - what a predictably cheesy beginning to the film. Anyway, having just got back from a posting in Russia, and home to his soon-wife-to-be for Christmas, he's whisked away again by the evil FedEx Corporation - nothing (not even Christmas) will come between them and the delivery of those boxes. "I'll be right back", he says as he trudges off towards the waiting plane. Of course, the plane crashes (which is one of the few exciting scenes ...

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Cast Away is a long film, a very long film. Don’t watch this if you only have an hour and a half to spare because you will have to miss off the end!! Aptly named, this film is about a Cast Away. There’s only one main character in the film, Tom Hanks (must have been a cheap labour bill!). There are a few other characters at the beginning and end but the main part of the film only stars one person. Tom Hanks plays Chuck Noland. He works ...
...The plane crash in Cast Away is the most realistic that I have seen in any film (not that I have ever experienced one to compare it too). If you are watching this with your 5.1 surround sound it will make you jump!! Brilliant special effects and amazing sound. Tom Hanks (as always) is brilliant, he was definitely the right person to choose for the part of Chuck. There must have been a lot of work involved for him, he was quite chubby at the beginning ...

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...palm fronds. An Overview: Cast Away blew me away. Who else but Tom Hanks could go from a silly sitcom actor to a so-so comedic actor to a blows them all out of the water leading man? His characters range from a slow but gifted man to a WWII Captain to a death row prison guard, to a talking cowboy doll and now a castaway with complete believability. There are other great actors but nobody else has his range, at least nobody that I can think of. Then ...
...there is no arguing that Cast Away is the success it is because Tom Hanks was able to pull off a film where he spends 90 minutes talking to a volleyball and pictures on the wall and makes it work. The Plot: FedEx: When it absolutely, positively has to be there in 4 years. Of course, FedEx doesn’t usually take that long to deliver a package, but in this case it does. Here’s why: Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) is a FedEx executive with a Type ...

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...cinema resulted in me watching Cast Away starring Tom Hanks. I would definately convince people to go and watch this film, as the acting by Tom Hanks is something special, comparing to the likes of 'The Green Mile' and 'Saving Private Ryan'. The film starts off by showing you all about the world-wide delivery company 'FedEx'. Tom Hanks is Chuck Noland, who works for FedEx and manages key issues like time and speed of delivery for which he is obsessed ...
...the other side of the world to deliver packages, he works up the courage to give his fiancé the engagement ring he had bought her a while ago and promises to marry her when he gets back. With the weather forecast not being very good, they expected the worse and during the flight things started to go wrong and it wasn't long before the whole crew were fighting for their life. Soon enough the plane crashed into the sea taking everyone inside the plane ...

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...he could have. The supporting cast were very good although they really had minor roles in the movie; Helen Hunt was particularly good as the girl friend who had to turn her back on him and continue living. This movie is a very good update of the Robinson Crusoe saga. The reality of the movie made it very compelling and realistic. It won many awards and deserved them as the movie managed to engross the viewer without a detailed plot. ...

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OK everybody I know you are going to blast me for putting this op here, but I have emailed Ciao several times and they don't respond to my letters about having a catergory for it. This about the original Castaway, but it was the book I wanted to talk to you all about not the film. I'm sorry if this hasn't got a mention of Tom Hanks in it, but this is where it all began..... I won the book on Castaway from bol.com. The cover looked enticing, a ...
...knew that I would enjoy this book as it's an escape from normal life. The author Lucy Irvine actually replied to an advert from a man requesting a "Wife" to live on a deserted island for a year. She had never met the man before, but to live on the Island of Tuin , the rules were that they had to be married. Tuin is off the coast of Papua New Guinea . It was an Island soon to be their home for a year. Gerald (G) and Lucy (Lu) as he affectionately ...

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The James Stewart of modern cinema is back, and this time in his clamorous bid for an Oscar, he's piling on the pounds then skinnying up as Chuck Noland, the FedEx troubleshooter stranded on a desert island. After a show-offy opening focussing on the America-Russia journey of a parcel, there's a mild surprise as we meet Noland yelling at a bunch of non-comprehending Soviet workers. Hanks getting tough! Don't panic - it'll pass. Then after a couple ...
...is thrown into the most terrifying airplane crash yet. Sudden, violent and unrelenting, it will have you squirming in your seat with discomfort. Washed up on a tiny atoll in the middle of the Pacific, Noland soon realises his predicament: there is very little food, other than coconuts, fish and crabs, very little water, and very little chance of escape - the thunderous offshore surf means he is penned in on the island, with no chance of getting ...

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Isn't Cast Away supposed to be one word? Castaway? You know, like Gilligan and all his wacky companions? I suppose that by splitting castaway into two words, verb and adverb, Robert Zemeckis is making some sort of subtle symbolic comment on the state of corporate employment today. Tom Hanks' character, an ambitious FedEx executive is (despite his undying devotion to his company) expendable, unimportant, and cast away. Much like every package I send ...
...the Skipper. Anyway, Cast Away the movie strands Tom Hanks on an island for four years after a FedEx plane crash. Everyone thinks he's dead, but he escapes the island by surfing home on a tsunami... Errrr...wrong island again. Sorry. He escapes the island on a raft and returns home to find that his fiance has married someone else, friends have died, and he's got FedEx backpay out the ass. I actually enjoyed this movie until he got rescued, mainly ...

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Some people mistake Cast Away for the British reality TV program 'Castaway'. No way, reality TV is arguably rubbish, but this film is a shining masterpiece, equal parts amazing acting, superb direction and beautiful camerawork. The film follows the tale of Tom Hanks as Chuck Noland, a busy and important man in the 'FedEx Family'. His work obliges him to travel far and wide at the drop of a hat, providing motivational speeches for FedEx employees ...
...make a boat. Cast Away is a very moving film, right from start to finish. I may be biased because I think Tom Hanks is an acting genius, but there is no doubt that this is an excellent film. From the moment of the horrifying and startling plane crash (named in Maxim's Top Ten Horrific Air Crashes), to the feeling of desolation and hopelessness as Noland realises his situation, we're emotionally involved with him and rooting for him all the way. ...

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In theory this looks like the perfect film, Action, Drama, Comedy, Sadness, a desert island and Tom Hanks. Oscar winning material you may be thinking, but in reality this is a ill thought out, hastily thrown together, totally over advertised flop of a film. Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) is a work obsessed Federal Express worker. He flies around the world trouble shooting for the mail company. On christmas eve he is called away from girlfriend Kelly (Helen ...
...airport, after being given a pocket watch with a photo of his beloved, Chuck calls to Kelly "I'll be right back" This is when you know things are going to go downhill. The Fedex plane gets into difficulties over the pacific and in an excellent crash scene, the plane goes down. This is one of the only highlights of the film, it really does convey the absolute horror and drama of an aeroplane crash. Chuck manages to survive in a life raft and is washed ...

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