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Chunk Noland was an engineer of Fedex delivery company. During a business trip, his plane crashed into the Pacific because the bad weather. He was washed up on a deserted island, he must fight to survive and find a way back to meet again lover ... The film is an adventure tough and turbulent but it is also very touching and containing many profound lessons.
Cast Away isn't the first to recognize our modern need for primal tales, but it is among the most accomplished. It plugs straight into our unplugged fantasies.
Hanks's Everyman quality has never been more aptly utilized: He's the perfect stand-in for all of us who never made it to Eagle Scout.
September 26, 2002
BrianOrndorf.com
Remains one of the more vividly transporting films I've come into contact with. It's heartbreaking, darkly comedic, bravely observational, and ultimately, pure emotional poetry.
Cast Away amounts to little more than an unprecedented showcase for its star.
December 22, 2000
Suite101.com
As melancholy as it is affirming, "Cast Away" tells a darkly comic, occasionally punishing parable about what happens when humans lose sight of humility in life's grand scheme - an interesting thematic twin to Tom Hanks' own "Joe vs. the Volcano."
Though Hanks comes across as blandly as ever, at least his solid performance shows he's up to carrying half a movie on his own, and Zemeckis' direction is at first as busily efficient as the protagonist.