Cast Away | | Cast : | Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt | | Director : | Robert Zemeckis | | Studio : | Twentieth Century Fox Home Video | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, DTS Surround Sound, Widescreen, Box set | | Released Date : | December 22, 2000 | | DVD Released Date : | June 12, 2001 | | Language : | English (Subtitled), English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 24, 2005 | | Summary | A MIXED BAG | Content
 | This is a film for which I have very mixed feelings. I didn't care much for it when it first came out but through DVD have surely learned to appreciate it.
The plane crash is truly amazing and terrifying, the island scenes great and the escape from the island / rescue will simply leave you drained. My biggest problem has to do with the long scenes between Tom Hanks and Helen Hunt at the return of the movie, they're just frustrating as closure for the characters couldn't ever exist. To top this we get a touching but long an unncesary monologue well over 2 hours into the movie.
Still, a great an unique experience which somehow I find myself repeating on a regular basis. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 19, 2005 | | Summary | the quitest movies you'll ever hear | Content
| For this to be one of the most unsually movies out their it turn out to be a movie that a lot of people like. A man was stranded on and island after his plane crashed in the ocean he should of been dead but some how he survied. He's been stuck on the island for three years he's made a volley ball into some one he can talk to sounds weird. He builded his own raft out of tree by cutting them down using the blade off of some ice skates. When he got in the ocean he was finally discovered by a big ship. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 31, 2005 | | Summary | While detractors deride this film to some extent... | Content
| ...I believe they would feel less comfortable in doing so had the lead not been so masterfully played by Hanks. He is such a skillful actor as to invite critique on the miniscule at the expense of seeing the overall appeal of the film.
In any other contempary actors hands this film would have been distinctly lack lustre. It is solitary and as such requires great emtional content which is visceral and believable, it also in need of great humanity and Hanks has the ability to deliver on all scores. You feel his isolation, frustration and fear in a way that is palpable and intense. His sense of alienation and irony is delivered with perfect pitch in the last section of the film and the film leaves one with a mixed sense of fear and hope, undoubtedly the main characters displaced internal dilemma.
It may not be heavy on plot and action but this film is more about the extremes of the human condition and survival instinct and it also stands as an intense study of Hanks craft at it's best. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 12, 2005 | | Summary | TOMS ISLAND | Content
| Another movie Tom Hanks should have gotten an oscar for! I loved
this movie, when I saw it in the theater in 2000! I thought the
story was great, and the movie was very well made! I still feel
the pain from when he played dentist, with an iceskate! This
movie really makes you appreciate what you have! Excellent! |
| Rating | | | Date | May 10, 2005 | | Summary | One of the best films of the year! | Content
| Though being stranded on a desert island can be a common theme, this sticks out from most movies that come out today. Hence it is different and unique in it's own way, and should be in your DVD collection!
An exploration of human survival and the ability of fate to alter even the tidiest of lives with one major event, Cast Away tells the story of Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks), a Federal Express engineer who devotes most of his life to his troubleshooting job. His girlfriend Kelly (Helen Hunt) is often neglected by his dedication to work, and his compulsive personality suggests a conflicted man. But on Christmas Eve, Chuck proposes marriage to Kelly right before embarking on a large assignment. On the assignment, a plane crash strands Chuck on a remote island, and his fast-paced life is slowed to a crawl, as he is miles removed from any human contact. Finding solace only in a volleyball that he befriends, Chuck must now learn to endure the emotional and physical stress of his new life, unsure of when he may return to the civilization he knew before. |
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