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| Director: Robert Zemeckis Actors: Viveka Davis, Michael Forest, Helen Hunt, Nick Searcy, Tom Hanks Studio: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Category: DVD
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Rating: 591 reviews Sales Rank: 2886
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Dts Surround Sound, Subtitled Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed) Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Media: Blu-ray Region: 1 Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 144 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 1 Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.5 x 1.2
MPN: 2244419 UPC: 024543444190 EAN: 0024543444190 ASIN: B000WQWPJQ
Theatrical Release Date: 2000 Release Date: December 4, 2007 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Amazon.com essential video Cast Away is a good movie that wants to be much better. While director Robert Zemeckis's earlier film Contact achieved a kind of mainstream spiritual significance, Cast Away falls just short of that goal. That may explain why the film's most emotionally powerful scene involves the loss of an inanimate object, even as it presents a heart-rending dilemma in its very human final act. It's three movies in one, beginning when punctuality-obsessed Federal Express systems engineer Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) departs on Christmas Eve to escort an ill-fated flight of FedEx packages. Following a mid-Pacific plane crash, movie number two chronicles Chuck's four-year survival on a remote island, totally alone save for a Wilson volleyball (aptly named "Wilson") that becomes Chuck's closest "friend." Movie number three leads up to Chuck's rescue and an awkward encounter with his ex-girlfriend Kelly (Helen Hunt, in a thankless role), for whom Chuck has seemingly risen from the grave. It's fascinating to witness Chuck's emerging survival skills, and Hanks's remarkable physical transformation is matched by his finely tuned performance. With slow, rhythmic camera moves and brilliant use of sound, Zemeckis wisely avoids the postcard prettiness of The Black Stallion and The Blue Lagoon to emphasize the harshness of Chuck's ascetic solitude, and this stylistic restraint allows Cast Away to resonate more than one might expect. Even the final scene--which feels like a crowd-pleasing compromise--offers hope without shoving it down our throats. You may not feel the emotional rush that you're meant to feel, but Cast Away remains a respectable effort. --Jeff Shannon
Amazon.com Cast Away is a good movie that wants to be much better. While director Robert Zemeckis's earlier film Contact achieved a kind of mainstream spiritual significance, Cast Away falls just short of that goal. That may explain why the film's most emotionally powerful scene involves the loss of an inanimate object, even as it presents a heart-rending dilemma in its very human final act.
It's three movies in one, beginning when punctuality-obsessed Federal Express systems engineer Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) departs on Christmas Eve to escort an ill-fated flight of FedEx packages. Following a mid-Pacific plane crash, movie number two chronicles Chuck's four-year survival on a remote island, totally alone save for a Wilson volleyball (aptly named "Wilson") that becomes Chuck's closest "friend." Movie number three leads up to Chuck's rescue and an awkward encounter with his ex-girlfriend Kelly (Helen Hunt, in a thankless role), for whom Chuck has seemingly risen from the grave.
It's fascinating to witness Chuck's emerging survival skills, and Hanks's remarkable physical transformation is matched by his finely tuned performance. With slow, rhythmic camera moves and brilliant use of sound, Zemeckis wisely avoids the postcard prettiness of The Black Stallion and The Blue Lagoon to emphasize the harshness of Chuck's ascetic solitude, and this stylistic restraint allows Cast Away to resonate more than one might expect. Even the final scene--which feels like a crowd-pleasing compromise--offers hope without shoving it down our throats. You may not feel the emotional rush that you're meant to feel, but Cast Away remains a respectable effort. --Jeff Shannon
Product Description Tom Hanks "gives one of the towering screen performances of all time" (New York Post) as Chuck Noland a FedEx systems engineer whose ruled-by-the-clock existence abruptly ends when a harrowing plane crash leaves him isolated on a remote island. As Chuck struggles to survive he finds that his own personal journey has only just begun... System Requirements:Run time: 143 minutesFormat: BLU-RAY DISC Genre: CHILDREN/ANIMATED Rating: PG-13 UPC: 024543444190 Manufacturer No: 2244419
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cast away June 29, 2009 Ebru Aksuet (Turkey) I'm much more impressed by the positive attitude and assistance of 'Amazon' than the item I purchased...thanks again...
Amazing transfer! June 14, 2009 Vecha Keason (Mobile, AL USA) If you add any more blu-rays to your collection make sure this is one! The view of the island is just gorgeous on blu-ray!
Trivial path May 21, 2009 neotroglodyte (desert southwest) 1 out of 3 found this review helpful
The first disconnect involved the physics of the jet hitting the water and the resultant vectors of anything with mass, which certainly included our hero. OK, the film's director/advisers never took physics in school. However, the major flaw was the volleyball, "Wilson" and all of the invested emotions surrounding it. What a spiritual tragedy when it is lost at sea! WHAT? Why not have the protagonist adopt an orphaned (deformed) baby bird, for instance. Imagine a fragile and utterly dependent entity filled with energy, song, and the joy of each new sunrise. Think of the difference if this crippled little life that you'd grown to love and cherish had been blown out to sea and lost in the maelstrom, vis-a-vis the volleyball! His solitude could have sown a deep spirituality and profound respect for all life. Did he grow to honor the lives that gave him life? Obviously not, as he callously throws down the crab's leg and takes no notice of the other wasted lives at the company's banquet. Solitude can be a path to enlightenment, as it has for many of history's sages. Instead, he moons around his old, now married, girlfriend? He mopes around hotel rooms speaking of loss? He had no substance to lose, except adipose... Why one star? The score, by Alan Silvestri, is tremendous.
Sublime May 14, 2009 R. de la Amador (Cartagena, Colombia) Anyone that says it's long and monotone, let me tell you, you know nothing. Worth all the time in the world and if it could be longer, I'd prefer it. How Tom Hanks performed this role is sublime. If you get yourself into the movie you'll see. Recommend a tissue.
Superb May 8, 2009 OK (Mendon, MA United States) I think it's sad that the movie industry is all about money and the public gets treated like ADD nation. They don't think anyone can possibly sit through a whole movie without violence or sex in it and still be interested enough to watch it. I'll lump the 42 reviewers here into ADD nation as not having an attention span longer than 3 minutes. No one seems to care about being able to educate anyone or move anyone emotionally. Movies can mean so much to us. They can educate, change opinions, or move a person to do something positive in there lives. The last great movie I've seen in the theater was this one. Tom Hanks deserved an Oscar for this one.
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