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Cast Away (Two Discs)
Cast Away (Two Discs) DVD Region 2 Cast Away (Two Discs), Catalogue Number: 6882192, Release Date: 29/10/2001
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Dreamworks Home Entertainment Cast Away (2 Disc Set) [2001]
<I>Cast Away</I> reunites star Tom Hanks and director Robert Zemeckis in their first collaboration since the heavy-handed sentimentality of <I>Forrest Gump</I>. Thankfully, this time their film's life-affirming message is delivered with more subtlety, attributable both to an extraordinarily committed, physically demanding central performance from Hanks and to Zemeckis' technically masterful but carefully understated direction. It's also a film with three distinct acts or, to be old-fashioned about it, a proper beginning, middle and end. The story follows schedule-obsessed but fulfilled FedEx supervisor Chuck Noland (Act 1) on a personal journey into the bleakest, most solitary despair (Act 2), before Helen Hunt, in the thankless role of ex-girlfriend, unwittingly allows him to glimpse an optimistic future full of untapped possibilities (Act 3). <p> Hanks' sojourn on the island is the centrepiece, but this is no tropical island idyll: following a terrifying plane crash (the one sequence in the film where Zemeckis shows off his uncanny ability to choreograph action), life on the island is seen to be a depressing and bitter experience filled with disappointment, danger and suicidal despair. Having lost all hope of rescue, ultimately Noland's greatest test is not to survive, but to find a <I>reason</I> to survive. He has no Man Friday for company, just a volleyball named Wilson that is both a narrative device allowing Hanks to deliver dialogue and an intriguingly pagan personification of the island's spirit under whose protection Noland is finally able to summon fire (significantly, and heartbreakingly, Wilson leaves him as he regains contact with the world). In an era of MTV-style film editing, Zemeckis and Hanks fearlessly take their time establishing with total conviction the grim realities of Noland's situation, his devastating loss of hope and the means by which he achieves his escape. Like <I>Contact</I> before it, <I>Cast Away</I> is a refreshingly thoughtful piece of mainstream cinema that explores weighty existential issues but retains a warm human intimacy.<p> <b>On the DVD:</b> The luminous anamorphic print with vivid Dolby 5.1 soundtrack is accompanied on the first disc by a technical commentary from Zemeckis and key crew personnel. It's plenty insightful for budding filmmakers, although for pure listening pleasure one might have preferred a more relaxed piece with just the director and Tom Hanks. The second disc includes a 30-minute making-of documentary in which the director sums up the moral of the movie--Surviving is easy but living is difficult. This draws on material from the three other mini-documentaries about survival skills, Wilson the volleyball and the Fijian island location of Monu Riki respectively. There's also a section on the sometimes surprising use of CGI effects and a storyboard-to-film comparison sequence. Tom Hanks chats with American TV host Charlie Rose about this movie and his career in the extensive 50-minute interview. Trailers, artwork and stills round out a valuable two-disc set. --<I>Mark Walker</I>
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Original Soundtrack / Cast Away
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Varese Sarabande Silvestri Cast Away
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Cast Away (DVD)
Tom Hanks gives an outstanding performance as Chuck Noland, a FedEx systems engineer whose life is ruled by the clock. Everything he does is guided by the precision of time. He soon finds himself with more time on his hands than he could have bargained for after a harrowing plane crash leaves him stranded alone on a remote island. As Chuck manages to overcome his immediate priorities for bodily survival, he finds his own personal journey just beginning...
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Cast Away (Vanilla) (DVD)
Tom Hanks gives an outstanding performance as Chuck Noland, a FedEx systems engineer whose life is ruled by the clock. Everything he does is guided by the precision of time. He soon finds himself with more time on his hands than he could have bargained for after a harrowing plane crash leaves him stranded alone on a remote island. As Chuck manages to overcome his immediate priorities for bodily survival, he finds his own personal journey just beginning...
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Terminal/ Catch Me If You Can/ Cast Away
Three films. The Terminal - Victor Navorski arrives in America to discover that, while he was in the air, his passport has been rendered invalid as a result of a military coup in his Eastern European homeland. Unable to enter the U.S. the terminal building becomes his makeshift home. Days stretch into weeks and months and Victor begins to forge unlikely friendships with the airport staff and an unlikely love develops with flight attendant Amelia. Catch Me If You Can - The true life adventure of con-man extraordinaire Frank Abagnale, Jr. who at the tender age of sixteen, ran away from home and somehow managed to pass himself as a pilot for Pan-Am, a professor, a doctor and, amazingly, the assistant attorney general of Louisiana. He was a master of deception who also cashed in fraudulent cheques in 26 countries putting him on the FBI's Most Wanted list. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Frank and Tom Hanks as Carl Hanratty, the FBI agent who was determined to track him down. Cast Away - Tom Hanks gives an outstanding performance as Chuck Noland, a FedEx systems engineer whose life is ruled by the clock. Everything he does is guided by the precision of time. He soon finds himself with more time on his hands than he could have bargained for after a harrowing plane crash leaves him stranded alone on a remote island. As Chuck manages to overcome his immediate priorities for bodily survival, he finds his own personal journey just beginning...
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4 Front Video The Terminal Catch Me If You Can Cast Away [2000]
Release Date: 2005-10-24, Rating Suitable for 12 years and over,
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Dreamworks Home Entertainment Cast Away [2001]
Release Date: 2006-06-19, Rating Suitable for 12 years and over,
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ScreenPress Books Cast Away
Pages: 144, Paperback, ScreenPress Books
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