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Cast Away
"At the edge of the world, his journey begins."
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- Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, Chris Noth, Nick Searcy, Lari White
- Director
- Robert Zemeckis
- Language
- English
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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.
Full Review|Sep 26, 2002
Cast Away amounts to little more than an unprecedented showcase for its star.
Full Review|Dec 22, 2000Cast Away has a marshmallow middle that feels empty at the core.
Dec 22, 2000Zemeckis is a capable director, so despite the misguided concept, the movie is anything but inept.
Full Review|Dec 22, 2000A blockbuster with the soul of an art film, Cast Away is an enormously gratifying surprise ending to a generally disappointing year at the movies.
Dec 22, 2000Although Cast Away is very much Hanks's extreme everyman solo, his inanimate Man Friday deserves recognition as one of the year's best supporting actors.
Full Review|Dec 21, 2000Cast Away is an adventure movie of extraordinary simplicity and power.
Dec 21, 2000Zemeckis does an excellent job of finding visual means to express Chuck's isolation and thought process.
Dec 8, 2000Though 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.
Full Review|Jun 24, 2006This isn't a first time a long-awaited movie has turned out to be a crushing disappointment and it won't be the last, but the loss is made even more wrenching when one considers how little it would have taken to make Cast Away a great movie.
Full Review|Jan 9, 2004If all of Cast Away were as gripping as its long midsection, it would be overwhelming; still, even with its flaws, it marks another milestone performance for Tom Hanks as well as for Robert Zemeckis.
Full Review|Feb 8, 2003Hanks made more faces and walked around with his mouth open more than I might have liked, but he has a way of revealing his thoughts without words that kept me intrigued.
Full Review|Oct 21, 2002In addition to Hanks' superb acting, amazing cinematography by Don Burgess helps lift this movie above the ordinary.
Full Review|Aug 2, 2002A technical marvel with indelible scenes that linger long after the movie has ended.
Full Review|Jun 19, 2002Cast 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.
Full Review|Mar 19, 2002Tom Hanks stands three coconuts above the CBS whiners and gives an astounding performance as a modern-day Robinson Crusoe.
Full Review|Dec 22, 2000Dig deep and you'll find a film that's even richer than what its handsome surface seems to reveal.
Full Review|Dec 22, 2000If you've seen the trailer or the commercials, you know the story, but that doesn't mean you've seen the movie.
Dec 22, 2000In terms of story and pacing, the whole of Cast Away is a lot less then the sum of its parts.
Full Review|Dec 22, 2000Tom Hanks does a superb job of carrying Cast Away all by himself for about two-thirds of its running time, but isn't much helped by additional characters in the opening and closing sequences.
Full Review|Dec 22, 2000Worth the trip.
Dec 21, 2000Hanks turns in an Oscar-worthy performance yet again.
Dec 21, 2000A tour de force, a courageous and surprisingly un-self-indulgent exercise in pared-down acting that makes Hanks, yet again, a likely Oscar contender.
Full Review|Dec 21, 2000As 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."
Full Review|Sep 25, 2010The beginning and ending of the film are a bit underdeveloped, but that's just quibbling.
Full Review|Aug 7, 2008This is Mr. Zemeckis' most confident directing to date. If he only had as much faith in his audience.
Full Review|Jul 14, 2007It's really kind of ironic. The old Chuck's life is ruled by the clock. Once he's learned better, we don't get enough time with him because the author's decided it was time to go. Oh, well.
Full Review|Dec 6, 2005It's a risky venture, and a fascinating, straightforward glimpse into the soul of a man.
May 14, 2003Cast Away says what you (yes, you) would end up doing if you were on a deserted island.
Full Review|Dec 12, 2002The challenge to the character is matched by the challenge to the actor; for most of the movie Mr. Hanks is the only human being we see or hear. He tackles the job with stunning confidence in a performance stripped of gimmicks and driven by need.
Full Review|Oct 15, 2002the usually flashy and fun-loving Zemeckis opts for an almost documentary-style approach here, with cunning use of silence, darkness and the sound of pounding rain to convey Chuck's disorientation and desperation.
Full Review|Jun 15, 2002Hanks conducts a master class in acting by showing a man losing his sense of himself in fractional gradations.
Jun 4, 2001The scenes of Hanks' complete isolation on the island, where barely a sound is heard for minutes at a time, are the best thing about Cast Away.
Full Review|Dec 22, 2000This second section is a masterpiece of filmmaking and a tour de force of acting.
Dec 22, 2000Hanks and his collaborators deserve all the praise and awards that surely will come their way.
Full Review|Dec 22, 2000While Cast Away works as a simple saga of survival, the film plays on deeper levels too.
Dec 22, 2000A brave film, and a surprisingly absorbing and finally affecting one, partly because it's about that least American of trinities -- silence, solitariness, and the spiritual deepening impossible to achieve without both.
Dec 22, 2000At its best, Cast Away, like Titanic, awes us with its sheer oceanic sweep and its cosmic apprehension of human insignificance.
Full Review|Dec 22, 2000Director Robert Zemeckis and screenwriter William Broyles Jr. do a great job of keeping the cut-and-dried formula from, well, getting too cut and dried.
Full Review|Dec 21, 2000A handsomely made, instructive but finally tedious blow-by-blow training film on island survival that it throws the entire venture out of balance, capsizing the enterprise and making it difficult to keep any kind of message afloat.
Full Review|Dec 21, 2000Has all the hallmarks of a great motion picture: well-developed characters, solid drama, non-traditional adventure, and an intelligent script.
Full Review|Dec 18, 2000Zemeckis tells his story ... with a control magnificent in what isn't shown as much as in what is.
Full Review|Dec 8, 2000Remains 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.
Full Review|Dec 7, 2009While his philosophical ventures seem stuck in the shallow end of the pool, Zemeckis takes an important step forward as a filmmaker.
Dec 6, 2004When I prayed to the film divinities that I wanted less Tom Hanks at the movies, I didn't just mean that I wanted him to be thinner.
Full Review|Mar 19, 2003An enjoyable, moving drama in which you'll believe a man can love a volleyball. Highly recommended.
Full Review|Oct 30, 2002Cast Away remains daring and quite unique even though it could have been even more, and Hanks' performance is really something to be seen.
Full Review|Sep 10, 2002Hanks fans may very well love this movie, but it does not fulfill its promise.
Jul 11, 2002Ha um filme belissimo escondido em Naufrago. Infelizmente, ele esta enterrado no meio de duas extremidades que deixam muito a desejar.
May 31, 2002
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