Vulture
Hanks's Everyman quality has never been more aptly utilised: He's the perfect stand-in for all of us who never made it to Eagle Scout.
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Cast Away
Tom Hanks must transform himself physically and emotionally to survive a crash landing on a deserted island in this Robert Zemeckis classic.
Chuck (Hanks), a top international manager for FedEx, and Kelly (Helen Hunt), a Ph.D. student, are in love and heading towards marriage. But when Chuck's plane to Malaysia crashes into the sea during a heavy storm, he finds himself stranded on a tiny remote island as the incident's lone survivor.
Less2000Rating: M143 minsUSA
AdventureDrama
- Director:
- Robert Zemeckis ('Forrest Gump', 'The Walk', 'Back to the Future')
- Writer:
- William Broyles Jr.
- Cast:
- Tom HanksHelen HuntChris NothPaul SanchezLari WhiteLeonid CiterDavid Allen BrooksSemion Sudarikov
Cast Away | Awards
Winner of Best Actor in a Motion Picture (Hanks), 2001 Golden Globes
Cast Away | Reviews
89%158 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® Score
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The Washington Post
Director Robert Zemeckis and screenwriter William Broyles Jr. do a great job of keeping the cut-and-dried formula from, well, getting too cut and dried.
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The New York Times
At its best, Cast Away, like Titanic, awes us with its sheer oceanic sweep and its cosmic apprehension of human insignificance.
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Rolling Stone
Hanks conducts a master class in acting by showing a man losing his sense of himself in fractional gradations.
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Roger Ebert
Tom Hanks does a superb job of carrying Cast Away all by himself for about two-thirds of its running time, but isn't much helped by additional characters in the opening and closing sequences.
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New York Post
A blockbuster with the soul of an art film, Cast Away is an enormously gratifying surprise ending to a generally disappointing year at the movies.
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