Contents.Plot In 1995, Chuck Noland is a time-obsessed systems analyst, who travels worldwide resolving productivity problems at depots. He is in a long-term relationship with Kelly Frears, with whom he lives in Memphis, Tennessee. Although the couple wants to get married, Chuck's busy schedule interferes with their relationship.A Christmas with relatives is interrupted by Chuck being summoned to resolve a problem in Malaysia. Flying through a violent storm, his airplane crashes into the.

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Chuck escapes the sinking plane and is saved by an inflatable life raft, but in the process loses the raft's. He clings to the life raft, loses consciousness, and floats all night before being washed up on an island.After he awakens, he explores the island and discovers it is uninhabited. Several FedEx packages from the crashed plane wash up on the shore, as well as the corpse of one of the pilots, whom he buries. He tries to signal for rescue and makes an escape attempt with the remnants of his life raft, but cannot pass the powerful surf. He searches for food, water, shelter, and opens the packages, finding a number of potentially useful items. He leaves one package, with a pair of wings painted on it, unopened.During a first attempt to make fire, Chuck receives a deep wound to his hand.

In anger he throws several objects from one of the packages, including a volleyball. A short time later he draws a face in the bloody hand print on the ball, names it Wilson, and begins talking to it.Over four years, Chuck ekes out a meager existence on the island, and has regular conversations and arguments with Wilson.

After a large section from a washes up on the island, Chuck uses it as a sail in the construction of a raft. After building and stocking the raft and deciding when the weather conditions will be optimal (using an he has created in his cave to monitor the time of year), he launches, using the sail to overcome the surf. After some time on the ocean, a storm tears his raft apart. The following day, Wilson falls from the raft and is lost, leaving Chuck overwhelmed by loneliness. Later, he is found drifting by a passing cargo ship.Upon returning to civilization, Chuck learns that he has long been given up for dead; his family and friends held a funeral, and Kelly has married Chuck's dentist and has a daughter, Katie. After reuniting with Kelly, the pair profess their love for each other but, realizing a future together would be impossible due to her commitment to her family, they part. Kelly gives Chuck the keys to the car they once shared.Chuck travels out into the country to return the unopened FedEx package to its sender.

The house at the address is empty, so he leaves the package at the door with a note saying that the package saved his life. He departs and stops at a remote crossroads. A woman passing by in a pickup truck stops to explain where each road leads. As she drives away, Chuck notices the illustration on her truck is similar to the one on the parcel. He looks down each road, then back to the road the woman took, and smiles.Cast. as Chuck Noland.

as Kelly Frears. as Stan. as Becca Twig. as Jerry Lovett. as Bettina Peterson. as Albert Miller.

as Maynard Graham. as Jack.

as Pilot PeteProduction Development In a 2017 Actor Roundtable with, Tom Hanks statedI made Cast Away because I wanted to examine the concept of four years of hopelessness, in which you have none of the requirements for living — food, water, shelter, fire and company. But it took us six years to put together the alliance that would actually examine that. I only had a third of it, and only had a third of it, until comes along and provided that other third.

I had that original idea. I was reading an article about, and I realized that filled with packages fly across the Pacific three times a day. And I just thought, 'What happens if that goes down?' — Tom Hanks in 2017 Filming The film's shooting occurred between 1998 and 2000, but was not shot consecutively. Hanks gained 50 pounds (23 kg) during pre-production, for the purpose of making his transformation more dramatic. After a majority of the film was shot, production was halted for a year so that he could lose the weight and grow his hair and beard to look like he had been living on the island for years.

Another four-month production halt preceded the filming of the final return scenes. During the year-long hiatus, Zemeckis used the same film crew to make another film,.Cast Away was filmed on, one of the in Fiji. It is in a subgroup of the Mamanuca, which is sited off the coast of, 's largest island. The island became a tourist attraction following the film's release. After Chuck's return, it is identified by Kelly as being 'about 600 miles south of the,' but there is actually no land between the southernmost Cook Islands of and.The film essentially begins and ends in the same location, on the Arrington Ranch in the south of the city of. Music The film's minimal score was composed and conducted by for which he won a in 2002.

The film's soundtrack is most notable for its lack of score and creature sound effects (such as bird song or insect sounds) while Chuck is on the island, which is intended to reinforce the feeling of isolation. Cast Away contains no original musical score until Chuck escapes the island. However, there is a Russian choral piece heard near the start of the film that was not composed or even recorded by Silvestri, so it does not appear on the film's soundtrack list. It is a traditional Russian song written by called 'Oh, My Field' and it is available on various collections of Red Army hymns.The official soundtrack CD is an anthology of musical pieces from all films up to that point directed by Zemeckis and scored by Silvestri. The only track from Cast Away itself is the theme from the end credits.

FedEx FedEx provided access to their facilities (Memphis, Los Angeles, and Moscow) as well as airplanes, trucks, uniforms, and logistical support. A team of FedEx marketers oversaw production through more than two years of filming. FedEx CEO made an appearance as himself for the scene where Chuck is welcomed back, which was filmed on location at FedEx's home facilities in Memphis, Tennessee. The idea of a story based on a FedEx plane crashing gave the company 'a heart attack at first,' but the overall story was seen as positive. FedEx, which paid no money for in the film, saw an increase in brand awareness in Asia and Europe following the film's release.

Wilson the volleyball. Wilson the volleyballIn the film, Wilson the serves as Chuck Noland's and only companion during the four years that Noland spends alone on a deserted. Named after the volleyball's manufacturer, the character was created by screenwriter While researching for the film, he consulted with professional survival experts, and then chose to deliberately strand himself for one week on an isolated beach in the, to force himself to search for water and food, and obtain his own shelter. During this time, a volleyball washed up on shore. This was the inspiration for the film's inanimate companion. From a screenwriting point of view, Wilson also serves to realistically allow dialogue in a one-person-only situation.One of the original volleyball props was sold at auction for $18,500 to the ex-CEO of,.

At the time of the film's release, Wilson launched its own joint promotion centered on the fact that one of its products was 'co-starring' with Tom Hanks. Wilson manufactured a volleyball with a reproduction of the bloodied handprint face on one side. It was sold for a limited time during the film's initial release and continues to be offered on the company's website.A comic reference to Wilson's name being derived from the volleyball manufacturer's is made in the movie, when Chuck tells Wilson 'A funny thing' - his dentist's name happens to be Spalding (referring to sporting goods manufacturer, a competitor of Wilson's).Reception On, Cast Away has an approval rating of 88% based on 156 reviews, with an average rating of 7.36/10.

The site's critical consensus reads, 'Flawed but fascinating, Cast Away offers an intelligent script, some of Robert Zemeckis' most mature directing, and a showcase performance from Tom Hanks.' On the film has a score of 73 out of 100, based on 32 critics, indicating 'generally favorable reviews'.Cast Away opened in 2,774 theaters in North America and grossed $28,883,406 with an average of $10,412 per theater on its opening weekend. For the four-day Christmas long holiday weekend, it took in a total of $39,852,075. The film kept performing well and ended up earning $233,632,142 domestically and $196,000,000 internationally for a total of $429,632,142, well above its production budget of $90 million. Accolades AwardCategoryRecipients and nomineesResultTom HanksNominated, andNominatedTom HanksNominatedBest Inanimate ObjectWilsonWonTom HanksWonPlane crashNominatedTom Hanks and Helen HuntNominatedTom HanksNominatedTom Hanks and WilsonNominatedTom HanksNominatedAlan SilvestriWonIn popular culture A commercial during the parodied the final scene of the film, in which Chuck returns a package to its sender. In this version, the woman answers the door, and when Chuck asks what was in the box, the woman replies: 'Just a, and some. Just silly stuff.'

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