Cast Away (2000)
Cast Away is a 2000 adventure film directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks. Hanks portrays a fictional FedEx employee who is stranded on an uninhabited island after his plane crashes on a flight over the South Pacific.
The film depicts his attempts to survive on the island using remnants of his plane's cargo, as well as his eventual escape and return to society. Hanks was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role at the 73rd Academy Awards for his critically acclaimed performance.
Production
The film is unusual in that it was not shot consecutively. Hanks gained fifty pounds during pre-production to make him look like a pudgy, middle-aged man. 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. During the year-long hiatus, Zemeckis used the same film crew to make another movie, What Lies Beneath.
Cast Away was filmed on Monuriki, a member of the Mamanuca Islands.[1] It is in a subgroup of the Mamanuca archipelago, which is sited off the coast of Viti Levu, Fiji's largest island. The island became a tourist attraction following the film's release. Although it is identified by Kelly after Chuck's return as being "about 600 miles south of the Cook Islands," there is actually no land between Antarctica and the southern-most Cook Islands of Mangaia.
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, and other sundries. They turned this over to a group of survival experts who decided how the protagonist might be able to use them. In a panel discussing the movie, director Robert Zemeckis joked that the unopened package contained a waterproof, solar-powered satellite phone. This led to a Super Bowl commercial that parodied the movie, which shows Chuck (though not played by Hanks) delivering the unopened package; as he does so, he asks the recipient "by the way, what's in the package?" and she replies "nothing much, just a satellite phone, GPS locator, fishing rod, water purifier, and some seeds."
Cast
* Tom Hanks - Chuck Noland
* Helen Hunt - Kelly Frears
* Wilson the Volleyball - Wilson
* Nick Searcy - Stan
* Jenifer Lewis - Becca Twig
* Chris Noth - Jerry Lovett
* Lari White - Bettina Peterson
* Vince Martin - Albert "Al" Miller
* Geoffrey Blake - Maynard Graham
Reception
Cast Away was acclaimed by critics, with particular praise for Tom Hanks' role as Chuck Noland. The film holds a score of 89% on Rotten Tomatoes. The film was a success at the box office, earning over $429,632,142 worldwide in ticket receipts.
The film received several 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)
Source : Wikipedia
The film depicts his attempts to survive on the island using remnants of his plane's cargo, as well as his eventual escape and return to society. Hanks was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role at the 73rd Academy Awards for his critically acclaimed performance.
Production
The film is unusual in that it was not shot consecutively. Hanks gained fifty pounds during pre-production to make him look like a pudgy, middle-aged man. 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. During the year-long hiatus, Zemeckis used the same film crew to make another movie, What Lies Beneath.
Cast Away was filmed on Monuriki, a member of the Mamanuca Islands.[1] It is in a subgroup of the Mamanuca archipelago, which is sited off the coast of Viti Levu, Fiji's largest island. The island became a tourist attraction following the film's release. Although it is identified by Kelly after Chuck's return as being "about 600 miles south of the Cook Islands," there is actually no land between Antarctica and the southern-most Cook Islands of Mangaia.
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, and other sundries. They turned this over to a group of survival experts who decided how the protagonist might be able to use them. In a panel discussing the movie, director Robert Zemeckis joked that the unopened package contained a waterproof, solar-powered satellite phone. This led to a Super Bowl commercial that parodied the movie, which shows Chuck (though not played by Hanks) delivering the unopened package; as he does so, he asks the recipient "by the way, what's in the package?" and she replies "nothing much, just a satellite phone, GPS locator, fishing rod, water purifier, and some seeds."
Cast
* Tom Hanks - Chuck Noland
* Helen Hunt - Kelly Frears
* Wilson the Volleyball - Wilson
* Nick Searcy - Stan
* Jenifer Lewis - Becca Twig
* Chris Noth - Jerry Lovett
* Lari White - Bettina Peterson
* Vince Martin - Albert "Al" Miller
* Geoffrey Blake - Maynard Graham
Reception
Cast Away was acclaimed by critics, with particular praise for Tom Hanks' role as Chuck Noland. The film holds a score of 89% on Rotten Tomatoes. The film was a success at the box office, earning over $429,632,142 worldwide in ticket receipts.
The film received several 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)
Source : Wikipedia
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