Cast Away (2000): Movie Review (with link)
Robert Zemeckis’ 2000 drama Cast Away is one of those films that aspires for cinematic greatness, nearly achieves it, yet leaves the viewer with no small amount of disappointment at the very end. Essentially a 20thCentury take on Daniel Defoe’s classic tale Robinson Crusoe, Cast Away stars two-time Academy Award-winning actor Tom Hanks as a FedEx systems analyst who is stranded on an island after his plane crashes in the Pacific Ocean. Chuck Noland: We live and we die by time. And we must not commit the sin of losing our track on time. It is late 1995. Chuck Noland is one of FedEx’s most driven analysts; he is a man who is obsessed with efficiency and time management, which is logical considering that he works for a company which lives by its "Absolutely, Positively Anytime" slogan. Based in the company’s headquarters in Memphis, Tennessee, Chuck is tasked with ferreting problems with the transit of packages ...