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Studio: Fox 2000
Studio: DreamWorks SKG
Release Date: Dec 22, 2000
Running Time: 143 mins. (V)
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
Chuck Noland, an engaged, workaholic Federal Express inspector, travels around the world testing the effectiveness of international shipping offices. His frenetic schedule puts a strain on his relationship with longtime girlfriend Helen. But when a plane crash leaves him stranded and isolated from other human beings on a remote Pacific island for four years, Chuck slowly becomes transformed both mentally and physically as he attempts to survive. This harrowing personal struggle ultimately brings him to a simple Zen-like understanding of what things in this world -- in his world -- are truly important.
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Chuck Noland
Kelly Frears
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Jerry Lovett
Bettina Peterson
Ramon
Fyodor
Dick Peterson
Beautiful Russian Woman
Russian Babushka
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Tom Hanks roughs it "Gilligan's Island" style after his FedEx plane goes down in the South Pacific. The experience later teaches him one of life's toughest, yet richest, lessons in love and life. Story Chuck Noland (Hanks) is a manager for FedEx who lives his life by the same deadlines imposed on the packages he delivers. He's dedicated to his job, which calls for extensive traveling around the world to train company workers how to be as time efficient as he is. But his life takes a dramatic… 
December 18, 2000
Cast Away stars Tom Hanks, whose name cannot be uttered without thinking of golden statuettes. Now he's reteaming with his Forrest Gump director, Robert Zemeckis, in a story he developed with screenwriter William Broyles. Hanks plays Chuck Noland, a FedEx efficiency genius. When his plane crashes in the South Pacific, Chuck spends the next four years on a deserted island, where the word rush does not apply. The movie could have sucked. Never mind that Hanks dropped fifty pounds to do the role -…
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