Finding no one home, he leaves the package at the door with a note saying that the package saved his life. It seems that Kelly will ride away with Chuck but they both realize she has to go home and they sadly part ways.Ĭhuck drives to Texas to return the unopened angel-winged FedEx package to its sender. They kiss and confess their love for each other. After a short visit Chuck drives away in his old Jeep but Kelly runs after him in the rain. On a rainy night Chuck briefly visits Kelly's house. There he learns that Kelly has since married and has a daughter. Later he is given a hero’s welcome home party at the FedEx Headquarters in Memphis. Upon returning to civilization four weeks later, a spruced-up and clean-shaven Chuck learns that he was declared dead by his family and friends. Soon after, he is rescued by a passing container ship. Chuck awakens and futilely attempts to rescue Wilson but is left to grieve the loss of his only friend. ![]() Chuck and the raft survive a storm but afterward Wilson falls off the raft and floats away. With the help of the enclosure sail which he has painted with angel wings like the FedEx package, Chuck successfully launches the raft which he has stocked with his meager belongings as well as the unopened FedEx package. While making rope from tree fibers it is revealed that Chuck had previously contemplated suicide by hanging. After enduring constant pain Chuck is forced to extract his own tooth using an ice skate from one of the FedEx packages.įour years later a now long-haired, bearded, and gaunt Chuck has adapted to life alone on the island.Īfter a large section from a portable toilet enclosure washes up on the island, Chuck begins construction on a raft, using the plastic as a sail. After calming down, Chuck draws a face into the smeared blood, names the ball "Wilson" and begins talking to it.Ĭhuck misses Kelly and has drawn her likeness on the wall of the cave that is now his home. While attempting to start a fire, Chuck cuts his hand and furiously throws several objects including a Wilson Sporting Goods volleyball, leaving a bloodstained handprint. He does not open a package with a pair of golden angel wings printed on it. Realizing it is unlikely he will be rescued, Chuck opens most of the FedEx packages, finding several useful items which he uses to improve his living conditions. In the following days Chuck struggles to locate food and water.Īfter seeing the lights of a passing ship far in the distance at night Chuck tries to escape in the inflatable life raft the following day but the strong approaching surf throws him onto a coral reef which pierces and ruins the raft and also badly cuts Chuck’s leg. ![]() Chuck buries him and writes an epitaph on the rock above the burial site. The body of one of the FedEx pilots, Albert Miller, washes up on the coast. As FedEx packages begin to wash ashore he dutifully gathers and sorts them but leaves them unopened. The next day, he washes up on an uninhabited island.Ĭhuck explores the island and realizes he is alone. Chuck is the only survivor of the crash and escapes on an inflatable life raft, losing the emergency locator transmitter in the process. ![]() However, the FedEx cargo plane he is on gets caught in a violent storm and crashes into the Pacific Ocean. During a family Christmas dinner, Chuck is summoned to resolve a work problem in Malaysia. The couple wants to get married, but Chuck's busy schedule hinders it. He lives with his girlfriend, Kelly Frears in Memphis, Tennessee. In 1995, Chuck Noland is a FedEx systems analyst and executive who travels the world resolving productivity problems at the company's depots. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised its screenplay and Hanks's performance, for which he won Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama at the 58th Golden Globe Awards and was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role at the 73rd Academy Awards. It grossed $429 million worldwide, making it the third-highest-grossing film of 2000. ![]() Initial filming took place from January to March 1999 before resuming in April 2000 and concluding that May.Ĭast Away was released on December 22, 2000, by 20th Century Fox in North America and DreamWorks Pictures in its international markets. Hanks plays a FedEx troubleshooter who is stranded on an uninhabited island after his plane crashes in the South Pacific, and the plot focuses on his desperate attempts to survive and return home. Cast Away is a 2000 American survival drama film directed and produced by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, and Nick Searcy.
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