Cast Away
Directed by	Robert Zemeckis
Produced by	Jack Rapke Robert Zemeckis Steve Starkey Tom Hanks
Written by	William Broyles Jr.
Starring	Tom Hanks Helen Hunt
Music by	Alan Silvestri
Editing by	Arthur Schmidt
Distributed by	- USA - Twentieth Century Fox - non-USA - DreamWorks ImageMovers
Release date(s)	December 7, 2000 (premiere) December 22, 2000 January 12, 2001
Running time	143 min. Robert Lee "Bob" Zemeckis (born May 14, 1952) is an Academy Award - and Golden Globe -winning American Film director, Jack Rapke is an American film producer best known for his involvement in Cast Away. Robert Lee "Bob" Zemeckis (born May 14, 1952) is an Academy Award - and Golden Globe -winning American Film director, Thomas Jeffrey "Tom" Hanks (born July 9 1956 is an two-time Academy award and Emmy winning American Film actor, director William Broyles Jr was born on October 8, 1944 in Houston Texas, and raised in Baytown Texas. Thomas Jeffrey "Tom" Hanks (born July 9 1956 is an two-time Academy award and Emmy winning American Film actor, director Helen Elizabeth Hunt (born June 15, 1963) is an American Emmy - Golden Globe - and Academy Award -winning actress Alan Silvestri (born March 26, 1950, New York City) is an acclaimed American Academy Award nominated Film score Composer Arthur Schmidt (born 1959 is an American film editor who has won the Academy Award for Film Editing twice (for Forrest Gump (1994 and for Who DreamWorks LLC, also known as DreamWorks Pictures, DreamWorks SKG, or DreamWorks Studios, is a major American Film studio ImageMovers is a production company created in 1997 by producer-writer-director Robert Zemeckis, along with partners Jack Rapke and Steve Starkey Events 43 BC - Marcus Tullius Cicero assassinated 1696 - Connecticut Route 108, one of the oldest highways 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. Events 1790 - The Turkish fortress of Izmail is stormed and captured by Suvorov and his Russian armies 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. Events 475 - Basiliscus becomes Byzantine Emperor, with a coronation ceremony in the Hebdomon palace in Constantinople Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar.
Language	English
Budget	USD$ 90,000,000
Gross revenue	$ 429,632,142 worldwide
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Cast Away is a 2000 film by 20th Century Fox and DreamWorks about a FedEx employee who is stranded on an uninhabited island after his plane goes down over the South Pacific. The year 2000 in film involved some significant events Events Top grossing films Please note that following the tradition of the DreamWorks LLC, also known as DreamWorks Pictures, DreamWorks SKG, or DreamWorks Studios, is a major American Film studio FedEx Corporation ( is a Logistics services company based in the United States. A castaway is a person who is cast adrift or ashore While the situation usually happens after a Shipwreck, some people voluntarily stay behind on a deserted island either The term desert island, or deserted island, refers to an Island which is uninhabited or sparsely inhabited The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth 's Oceanic divisions It is unusual in Hollywood cinema in that during most of the movie there is only one human character. Tom Hanks was nominated for Best Actor at the Academy Awards for his performance. Thomas Jeffrey "Tom" Hanks (born July 9 1956 is an two-time Academy award and Emmy winning American Film actor, director Best Actor is the name of an award It is presented by various film organizations Film festivals and people's awards "The Oscar" redirects here for the film see The Oscar (film.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast Away island 3 Wilson 4 Product placement 5 Film notes 6 Movie score 7 Cast 8 Notable award nominations 9 References 10 External links

Plot

Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) is a highly efficient FedEx executive. Thomas Jeffrey "Tom" Hanks (born July 9 1956 is an two-time Academy award and Emmy winning American Film actor, director FedEx Corporation ( is a Logistics services company based in the United States. He is in a relationship with Kelly Frears (Helen Hunt). Helen Elizabeth Hunt (born June 15, 1963) is an American Emmy - Golden Globe - and Academy Award -winning actress Both of them seem to want to get married but Chuck's busy schedule is an obstacle.

Chuck is home in Memphis, Tennessee for Christmas after returning from a trip to Moscow, Russia. Memphis is a City in the southwest corner of Tennessee, and the County seat of Shelby County. Tennessee ( is a state located in the Southern United States. Moscow (Москва́ romanised: Moskvá, IPA: see also other names) is the Capital and the largest city of Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending As he and Kelly discuss their plans for marriage, Chuck is called away on a business trip. He gives Kelly a box containing an engagement ring and tells her not to open it until he returns and Kelly gives Chuck a pocket watch containing a picture of herself.

While flying through a thunderstorm somewhere over the southern Pacific Ocean, the FedEx jet crashes into the night time sea in flames. The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth 's Oceanic divisions Saved by an inflatable life-raft, Chuck floats helplessly on the ocean until he is brought to a deserted island. A lifeboat is a small craft carried on a ship to provide a means of emergency evacuation in the event of a disaster aboard the ship

Chuck quickly ascertains that the island is uninhabited and sets out doing what he can to survive: he drinks coconut water and later stores rain water in the discarded husks, he creates shelter by draping his raft over palmtree trunks and, later, by discovering caves in the island rock, he attempts to fish and catch crab. Coconut water is the clear liquid inside young coconuts (fruits of the coconut palm) not to be confused with Coconut milk. Arecaceae or Palmae (also known by the name Palmaceae, which is taxonomically invalid or commonly palm tree) the palm family is a family of Flowering A cave is a natural underground void large enough for a human to enter

The body of one of the flight crew washes up on the island along with several dozen FedEx packages. Chuck buries the pilot and neatly piles away all of the washed up packages. After a failed attempt to leave the island by the inflatable raft (the same one upon which he floated to the island) due to the powerful surf around the island, Chuck realizes that his stay on the island might be prolonged and he sets out opening all of the packages, finding a practical use for whatever is inside. One of the items he finds is a Wilson volleyball which Chuck appropriately names "Wilson", draws a face upon the ball and starts speaking with it. The Wilson Sporting Goods Company is a sports equipment manufacturer based in Chicago, Illinois, and currently is a foreign Subsidiary of the Finnish He develops a deep friendship with this volleyball and his conversations with it are almost exclusively the only instances during which he talks while on the island. One of the FedEx packages bears an angels' wings logo. Even though he does not know what the package is or who it belongs to, this is the only package Chuck does not open. However, this is probably because he set a goal for himself to deliver it.

Through the crash, Chuck was able to retain the pocket watch with Kelly's picture. He often gazes upon this picture for comfort in lonely times and motivation to go on.

Four years later, a dramatically thinner Chuck is seen expertly tossing a spear into the water, killing a fish. The cave in which Chuck now sleeps contains myriad pictures of Kelly on the cave walls and a box holding his possessions.

One morning, Chuck finds a large piece of a plastic from a portable toilet that washed up on the island. A portable toilet, also known as a 'porta-potty' is a modern portable self-contained Outhouse manufactured of molded Plastic in a variety of colors and are often He uses the plastic as a sail for a new raft to help him escape from the island. During an imagined conversation with Wilson, Chuck is reminded of a noose knot he prepared that shows that Chuck considered hanging himself during his stay on the island. With construction of the raft complete, Chuck sets out to sea. After breaking through the island surf, Chuck takes one last look at the island and becomes visibly emotional for leaving.

Chuck spends days drifting out in the open sea, still doing whatever necessary to stay alive until he can be rescued. After a few days of drifting at sea, Wilson gets loose from the raft and the current carries him away. Chuck desperately tries to get Wilson back, but is unsuccessful. Alone on the raft, Chuck sobs over the loss of his friend. After drifting for an unknown period of time, he is rescued by a passing cargo ship. A cargo ship or freighter is any sort of Ship or vessel that carries Cargo, goods and materials from one port to another

On returning home, Chuck must come to terms with the fact that everyone he was close to has given him up for dead long ago and moved on with their lives. Kelly has married and had a child with another man, Jerry Lovett (Christopher Noth). Christopher David "Chris" Noth (born November 13 1954) is a Golden Globe -nominated American Actor of Film, Chuck reunites with Kelly and they profess their love for each other, but she realizes that she has responsibilities to Jerry and her daughter and says goodbye to Chuck. Chuck feels like he lost Kelly all over again and decides to let go and move on with his life.

He sets out to deliver the one package he never opened on the island and he finds a ranch with the angels' wings sculpture over the main entrance. He leaves the package at the front door of the residence with an attached note that says "This package saved my life". Chuck then drives out to a remote crossroads. In the field of Road transport, an intersection is a road junction where two or more Roads either meet or cross at grade (they are In his car, he keeps a new Wilson volleyball. As he is studying a map at the intersection, a woman drives up and tries to help him by describing where all the roads from the intersection lead. As she drives away Chuck notices the angels' wings painted on the back of her truck. A long close up of Chuck smiling in the direction the truck had left closes the film.

Cast Away island

Cast Away was filmed on Monuriki, a member of the Mamanuca Islands. Monuriki is an Island in the Pacific Ocean, in a group of islands known as the Mamanuca Islands. The Mamanuca Islands of Fiji are a volcanic Archipelago lying to the west of Nadi and to the south of the Yasawa Islands. ^[1] It is in a subgroup of the Mamanuca archipelago, which is sited off the coast of Viti Levu, Fiji's largest island. An archipelago (ɑrkəˈpɛləgoʊ is a chain or cluster of Islands The word archipelago literally means "chief Sea " from Italian Viti Levu (ˈβiti ˈleβu is the largest island in the Republic of Fiji, the site of the nation's capital Suva, and home to a large majority of Fiji's population Fiji (Matanitu ko Viti फ़िजी officially the Republic of the Fiji Islands (Matanitu Tu-Vaka-i-koya ko Viti फ़िजी द्वीप समूह गणराज्य It has become a tourist attraction following the film's release.

A satellite image of the island is available to be seen here. This article is about artificial satellites For natural satellites also known as moons see Natural satellite.

Upon Chuck's return, Kelly explained to Chuck that when he was found, he had "drifted 500 miles", and the island was "about 600 miles south of the Cook Islands. The Cook Islands ( Cook Islands Māori: Kūki 'Āirani) are a self-governing parliamentary democracy in free association with New Zealand. " There is no land between Antarctica and the southern-most Cook Islands of Mangaia. Mangaia (traditionally known as Auau Enua which means terraced) is the most southerly of the Cook Islands and the second largest after Rarotonga.

Wilson

Main article: Wilson the Volleyball

One of Cast Away's notable "characters" is "Wilson," a volleyball from Wilson Sporting Goods. Wilson is the name given to a volleyball in the 2000 film Cast Away. Wilson is the name given to a volleyball in the 2000 film Cast Away. A volleyball is a Ball used to play Indoor volleyball, Beach volleyball, or other less common variations of the sport. The Wilson Sporting Goods Company is a sports equipment manufacturer based in Chicago, Illinois, and currently is a foreign Subsidiary of the Finnish The volleyball is found in one of the FedEx boxes. When Chuck tries to make a fire and cuts his hand, he angrily palms the volleyball and throws it. The blood from his wound makes the hand-shaped mark that forms the ball's "face". This volleyball plays the role of a mute, infinitely patient, non-living listener in the movie, providing Chuck with a companion for the 1,500 days he spends on the island. Wilson is also slightly modified by Noland sometime during the four-year gap; a section of the volleyball above the face has been removed and a coif of leaves has been inserted, serving as hair. From a theatrical standpoint, Wilson also serves as a person for Chuck to converse with, providing dialog in what would otherwise have been a single-person performance. Chuck loses Wilson after the volleyball washes off the raft and drifts too far out to sea for Chuck to be able to retrieve it. Toward the end of the film, Chuck is seen driving with a brand new volleyball sitting in the passenger seat. After the film, Wilson's final resting place is in a display cabinet in FedEx Kinko's CEO Ken May's office in Dallas, Texas.

Product placement

Cast Away is well-known for its prominent product placement marketing. Product placement, or embedded marketing, is a type of Advertising, in which promotional Advertisements placed by marketers using In this case the movie benefited two major brands: Wilson and FedEx. However, contrary to popular belief, FedEx did not pay the filmmakers anything for their presence in the movie, a fact which the director has made clear in a number of interviews.

At the time of the movie's release, Wilson Sporting Goods launched its own joint promotion centred around the fact that one of its products was "co-starring" with Tom Hanks.

The plane crash scene caused FedEx Corporation to have "a heart attack at first", according to Gayle Christensen, director of global brand management for the company. However, FedEx decided the movie was a "risk worth taking because the story of the brand was very positive," she said, adding that the movie helped increase FedEx's brand awareness in Asia and Europe. ^[2] FedEx cooperated closely with the film makers to ensure that all FedEx materials seen in the movie were authentic. Chuck's "coming-home" scene was filmed on location at FedEx's home facilities in Memphis, Tennessee. Memphis is a City in the southwest corner of Tennessee, and the County seat of Shelby County. The CEO at the end of the movie is actually Fred Smith, the CEO of FedEx at the time. Frederick Wallace Smith (born August 11 1944 in Marks, Mississippi) or Fred Smith, is the founder chairman president and CEO of FedEx, originally

One anachronism that some viewers have pointed out is that in 1995 the parent company of Federal Express was still called FDX. An anachronism (from the Greek "ana" " ανά " "against anti-" and "chronos" " χρόνος " However, in 1994, Federal Express officially adopted "FedEx" as its brand for recognition as the worldwide standard for fast, reliable service. In 2000, when Chuck returns from isolation, the corporation was known as FedEx. [1]

Another product placed in the film is the soft drink Dr Pepper, which Chuck is shown drinking on the plane before the crash, and again after his return to civilization. Dr Pepper is a soft drink marketed in North America, South America and Europe by Dr Pepper Snapple Group. This was also a nod to a previous film starring Hanks, Forrest Gump. In this film Forrest proclaims, "I musta drunk me about 15 Doctor Peppers!"

Film notes

The producers made up a list of seemingly useless items that would be in the packages that Noland recovered: party dress, ice skates, divorce papers, video tapes, etc. They turned this over to a group of survival experts, who decided what the protagonist might be able to do with them: fish net, axe, rope, etc.

In a panel discussing the movie, Director Robert Zemeckis joked that the final unopened package at the end contained a waterproof, solar-powered satellite phone. Robert Lee "Bob" Zemeckis (born May 14, 1952) is an Academy Award - and Golden Globe -winning American Film director, A satellite telephone, satellite phone, or satphone is a type of Mobile phone that connects to orbiting Satellites instead of terrestrial This led to a Super Bowl commercial that spoofed the movie, which shows Hanks' character (not played by Hanks in the commercial) making the final delivery of an unopened package to a suburban residence. As he delivers the FedEx box, he says to the recipient "by the way, what was in the box?" to which the female recipient says "nothing much, just a satellite phone, GPS locater, fishing rod, water purifier, and some seeds. "^[3]

Production was on hiatus for about a year to allow Tom Hanks to lose some weight and grow his hair. During that period, Robert Zemeckis used the crew to produce and direct What Lies Beneath. What Lies Beneath ( 2000) is a Psychological horror Film by Film director Robert Zemeckis.

The film makers actually burned down several trees on the island for the movie. In return they were required to plant three new trees for each one they burned down.

Wilson Sporting Goods manufactured a volleyball with a parody of the hand print face on one side. The Wilson Sporting Goods Company is a sports equipment manufacturer based in Chicago, Illinois, and currently is a foreign Subsidiary of the Finnish It was sold for a limited time during the movie's initial release.

Lloyd Braun of ABC Studios pitched the idea of a television series based on the movie, titled: Cast Away: The Series. Lloyd Braun (born 1958 has been a creative force behind a number of successful television programs The American Broadcasting Company ( ABC) is an American Television network. That show later evolved into the hit ABC show Lost. Lost is an Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning American serial drama television series. The pilot episode of the show was the most expensive pilot ever produced and fearful ABC executives subsequently fired Braun, ignorant of the success to come for Lost. A television pilot is a test episode of an intended Television series. It cost between $10 and $14 million. ^[4]

Movie score

The film's minimal score was composed by Alan Silvestri for which he won a Grammy in 2002. Alan Silvestri (born March 26, 1950, New York City) is an acclaimed American Academy Award nominated Film score Composer The Grammy Awards (originally called the Gramophone Awards)—or Grammys —are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. The film's soundtrack is most notable for its lack of score while Chuck is on the island. There is no music at all until he escapes, which is used to resemble the lack of civilization on the island. A pseudo exception to this could be said to be the scene where Tom Hanks' character creates fire, in which he sings "Light My Fire" by The Doors, among others. Thomas Jeffrey "Tom" Hanks (born July 9 1956 is an two-time Academy award and Emmy winning American Film actor, director " Light My Fire " is a song originally performed by The Doors on their self-titled first album, which was recorded in August 1966 and released This article is about the band For their self-titled debut album see The Doors (album; for the Oliver Stone film see The Doors (film; for Doors in computing The tracks for the score are as follows:

1. "Cast Away" - 3. 44
2. "Wilson, I'm Sorry" - 1. 39
3. "Drive to Kelly's" - 3. 54
4. "Love of My Life" - 1. 47
5. "What the Tide Could Bring" - 3. 39
6. "Crossroads" - 2. 08
7. "End Credits" - 7. 29

Cast

• Tom Hanks – Hanks' performance earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. Thomas Jeffrey "Tom" Hanks (born July 9 1956 is an two-time Academy award and Emmy winning American Film actor, director Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS to recognize
• Helen Hunt
• Wilson the Volleyball
• Valerie Wildman
• Geoffrey Blake
• Jenifer Lewis
• Chris Noth
• Nick Searcy
• Lari White

Notable award nominations

• 73rd Academy Awards: Best Actor in a Leading Role (Tom Hanks), Best Sound
• BAFTA Awards: Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role (Tom Hanks)
• 58th Golden Globe Awards: Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama: For which he won (Tom Hanks)
• Screen Actors Guild: Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role (Tom Hanks)
• 2001 MTV Movie Awards: Best On-screen Team (Tom Hanks and Wilson)

References

External links

• Cast Away at the Internet Movie Database
• Cast Away at Rotten Tomatoes
• Cast Away at Metacritic
• Cast Away at Box Office Mojo
• Cast Away Clip plane crash scene
• Cast Away FedEx Super Bowl Commercial

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