Download link
Cast away [FullVersion]
Directed by Robert Zemeckis
Produced by Jack Rapke
Robert Zemeckis
Steve Starkey
Tom Hanks
Written by William Broyles Jr.
Starring Tom Hanks
Helen Hunt
Semion Sudarikov
Geoffrey Blake
Jenifer Lewis
Chris Noth
Nick Searcy
Lari White
Vince Martin
Music by Alan Silvestri
Cinematography Don Burgess
Editing by Arthur Schmidt
Studio ImageMovers
Playtone
Distributed by USA/Canada
20th Century Fox
International
DreamWorks
Release date(s) December 7, 2000 (2000-12-07)
Running time 143 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $90 million
Gross revenue $429,632,142
Plot
Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) is a time-obsessed FedEx systems analyst, who travels worldwide resolving productivity problems at FedEx depots. He is in a long-term relationship with Kelly Frears (Helen Hunt), with whom he lives in Memphis, TN. Although the couple want to get married, Chuck's busy schedule interferes with their relationship. A Christmas with relatives is interrupted by Chuck being summoned to resolve a problem overseas. At the airport, the couple exchange Christmas gifts. Kelly gives Chuck her grandfather's pocket watch with her picture in it, and Chuck gives her what appears to be a ring, which he tells her to open on New Year's, after he returns.
While flying through a violent thunderstorm somewhere over the southern Pacific Ocean, apparently having flown off course, a sudden onboard explosion occurs on Chuck's McDonnell Douglas MD-11 which results in it crashing into the ocean. Chuck is able to escape the sinking plane and is saved by an inflatable life-raft but in the process, loses the raft's emergency locator transmitter. He clings onto the life-raft as it floats all night in the storm before being washed up on an island.
After Chuck wakes up stranded he explores the island and it soon becomes clear that it is uninhabited, several FedEx packages from the crashed plane wash up on the shore, including the dead body of one of the pilots (which he gives a funeral). Chuck initially tries to signal for rescue and even make an escape attempt on the remnants of his life-raft, but the powerful surf causes him to end up destroying the raft and badly injuring his leg. Realizing escape is futile and chances of rescue are slim, he begins to search for food, water, shelter, and opens the FedEx packages for items to use for his survival. He finds a number of potentially useful items but leaves one package, painted with a pair of wings, unopened.
During a first attempt to make fire, Chuck receives a deep wound to his hand. In anger he throws several objects, including a Wilson volleyball from one of the FedEx packages. A short time later he draws a face in the bloody hand print on the ball, naming it "Wilson" and begins talking to it as if it was a person. Eventually he is able to make a fire and cook hunted food; after a bad tooth becomes infected he is forced to remove it with the blade of an ice skate.
The film shifts forward by four years to show Chuck now dramatically thinner and bearded with longer hair and wearing a loincloth. He has become an expert at spearing fish and making fires. It also becomes clear that over the ensuing period of time, Chuck has developed a deep psychological connection to "Wilson", regularly having conversations and occasional arguments.
After a large sheet of plastic from a portable toilet washes up on the island, Chuck gets an idea to use it as a sail in the construction of a raft. After spending some time building and stocking the raft (including food, fishing equipment, oars and the unopened package) and deciding when the weather conditions will be optimal, Chuck launches the raft and is able to use the sail to ride over the powerful surf, finally escaping the island. After some time on the ocean, he encounters whales and a violent storm which destroy the raft and ultimately results in Wilson being lost. Starving, sunburned, exhausted, dehydrated, and distraught over his only friend gone and his unknown time spent lost at sea, he resigns himself to his fate. Later, on the verge of death he is at last found and saved by a passing cargo ship.
Upon returning to civilization, Chuck has to come to terms that he has long been given up for dead by everyone he knew; his family and friends held a funeral, and Kelly has since married Chuck's dentist and had a daughter. After reuniting with Kelly the pair profess their love for each other but, realizing a future together would be impossible due to her commitment to her family, they part. Kelly gives Chuck the keys to the car that they had once shared as part of their past life together. Chuck remarks to a friend that he has now "lost her all over again," having previously resigned himself to being stranded on the island for the rest of his life; but he remains grateful that he is alive and well, and hopes that he will find a second chance at happiness.
Chuck then travels out into the country, to deliver the one unopened FedEx package that he had with him on the island. The house is empty so he leaves the package at the door, with a note telling the occupant that the package saved his life. He then departs, stopping at a remote crossroads. A woman passing by in a pickup truck stops to explain where each road leads. As she drives away, Chuck notices an illustration on the back of her pickup truck that is similar to one on the parcel. The film ends with Chuck looking down each road, trying to decide which direction to go. Then the camera comes to his face as he looks up the road of the departing woman in the truck, with a faint smile.
