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	DVD Verdict Review - Cast Away
		Playing upon the enduring romantic myth of Robinson Crusoe, Cast Away reverses the fantasy and shows the hard reality of a modern man's life alone on an island in an enormity of vastness, separated from all that he was and all that he had.
		Cast Away is very much the Tom Hanks Show, as one wag at the IMDb noted in his comments, and if Hanks failed, there was no safety net.
		The narrative of Cast Away stretches in a three act format for nearly two and a half hours, but given the tasks for it to accomplish, this is time reasonably well-spent.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/castaway.php (1773 words)

	Cast Away (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Cast Away is at its best in showing how irreversible the past is, how stained we are by our experiences, and in Hanks’ and Zemeckis’ hands these changes aren’t treated as matters of wistful contemplation.
		Cast Away is a model of restrained storytelling that’s studded with a series of pure emotional peaks.
		Cast Away is a solid portrait of a man who’s suddenly forced to see his life in terms of distances, both geographic and emotional; it offers a convincing demonstration of how bitterness and optimism can taint each other, even within the same person.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies2/CastAway.htm (1283 words)

	Cast Away: Cinephiles Movie Review
		Alone and away from civilization, Chuck is forced to test his adaptability skills, find the drive to survive, and rediscover the timeless qualities of life.
		Cast Away relies on location --the extreme nature of its settings, such as the hostile sea and an isolated island-- to create a story that focuses on the mental and physical processes of its protagonist as he confronts physical isolation.
		Cast Away uses an extended ellipsis of time to dramatize the character's transformation, demonstrating that by taming Nature he has learned to satisfy his needs, and that by obeying his imagination he has managed to protect his sanity.
	www.cinephiles.net /Cast_Away/Film-Synopsis.html (474 words)

	Cast Away : film review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Cast Away is hardly the type of big-budget Hollywood film one would expect from star Tom Hanks and director Robert Zemeckis, who first teamed up back in 1994 for Forrest Gump.
		A sombre drama that actually dares to spend close to 80 minutes almost in total silence, Cast Away shows yet again that Hanks is an extraordinarily versatile actor, while also showing that Zemeckis is a director capable of showing restraint when needed.
		There is no music, no cutting away to a rescue mission with tons of boats and planes, no cutaway shots of Kelly crying back in the States.
	www.musicomh.com /films/cast.htm (657 words)

	Cast Away
		When a work emergency calls him away from their Christmas dinner, little do both of them realize that it will be four years before they see each other again.
		"Cast Away" is not a perfect film, and it misses the boat (if you'll pardon the expression) in two key places.
		"Cast Away" may not be the film that I would want with me if I was stuck on a deserted island (that honor would go to "The Empire Strikes Back"), but it still fits the bill as a cinematic paradise that celebrates the triumph of the human spirit.
	www.moviemantz.com /movie_reviews/1200/cast_away.html (865 words)

	Cast Away - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cast Away is a 2000 film by 20th Century Fox and DreamWorks about a FedEx employee who is stranded on a deserted island after his plane crashes "somewhere in the South Pacific." The plot is very loosely based on the novel Robinson Crusoe.
		One of Cast Away's notable "characters" is "Wilson," a volleyball from Wilson Sporting Goods (in real life, the dominant manufacturer of volleyballs).
		Cast Away was spoofed in the movie Behind Enemy Lines, when Owen Wilson's Character, Chris Burnett, lost a football out to sea.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cast_Away (1336 words)

	DreamWorks SKG Fansite-Cast Away (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Cast Away became the 5th DreamWorks film this year to surpass the $100 million mark.
		Varese Sarabande Records is releasing the official soundtrack of 'Cast Away' on January 30th (making it same day as Zemeckis' What Lies Beneath DVD release date and a day after my birthday).
		As the score for Cast Away is based on a single, but very beautiful theme, we have taken the opportunity of supplementing this by taking a look back over the phenomenally successful pictures and scores from their past.
	www.dreamworksfansite.com /castaway (2418 words)

	Filmtracks: Cast Away (Alan Silvestri)
		Cast Away: The Films of Robert Zemeckis: (Alan Silvestri) Collaborations between directors and composers can often span six or seven films, and while it is no record, Cast Away represents the tenth pairing of director Robert Zemeckis and composer Alan Silvestri.
		Zemeckis and Silvestri are very close friends, and the trust that the director has for the composer is evident through the simple diversity of the genres which the two dive into together.
		Just before Cast Away, What Lies Beneath is certainly the weakest score of the ten, and an unfortunate detraction from the listening experience.
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/cast_away.html (787 words)

	Salon.com Arts & Entertainment \| "Cast Away"
		That may be why the trailers and pre-release hype for Robert Zemeckis' "Cast Away" made it look so frightfully inspirational and, frankly, dismissable: Tom Hanks gets marooned on a small tropical island, the sole survivor of a plane crash.
		"Cast Away" is a sad movie of the sort that Hollywood almost never makes: not three-hankie sad, not "go have yourself a good cry" sad, but the kind of thing that, if you let it in deep enough, can send a shudder to your very soul.
		At its most predictable, "Cast Away" is exactly the movie you'd expect the post-"Forrest Gump" Robert Zemeckis to make (and a movie far, far removed from the delectable nastiness of his 1980 "Used Cars" or his 1992 "Death Becomes Her").
	archive.salon.com /ent/movies/review/2000/12/22/cast_away/index.html (1093 words)

	Cast Away - Movie Review
		Cast Away is The Big Tom Hanks Movie of 2000, the latest in a long line of Big Tom Hanks Movies that stretches back to include The Green Mile, Saving Private Ryan, Apollo 13, Forrest Gump, and Philadelphia.
		As you've undoubtedly heard, Cast Away largely concerns Hanks' character Chuck Noland, stranded and forgotten on a tiny island in the South Pacific after his plane goes down in the drink.
		Ultimately, Cast Away rests wholly on the strength of its second act and its leading man. The supporting cast, the editing, the camerawork -- everything else is completely swept aside to make way for our survivor.
	www.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/castaway (866 words)

	Reel Criticism - Cast Away (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		So, when the trailers for Cast Away came out it looked as though here was yet another film that was spelling out the beginning, middle and end of the film before we even were gouged for our dollars, I did it again.
		Well, in truth the full trailer does give away far, far to many things and that is a truly shame, but somehow knowing the flow of the film does little to take away from its power nor the brilliance of Tom Hanks and Mr.
		Cast Away, much like What Lies Beneath, is beautifully shot and it was very nice to see a film without there being computer generated graphics all over the place.
	www.reelcriticism.com /reviews/review_castaway.html (953 words)

	CAST AWAY
		Cast Away opens with several scenes that don't seem necessary but play a vital role in the film's final reel.
		This middle part of Cast Away is over an hour long and features no music and very little dialogue (the least in a film this length since The Thin Red Line).
		He mixes in a bunch of the long tracking shots that we've come to expect, and the transitions between his scenes are typically amazing, but the director makes his greatest contribution to Cast Away by leaving important pieces of the story out of the film.
	www.sick-boy.com /castaway.htm (770 words)

	Cast Away (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Cast Away suffers from trying to be two films instead of one.
		The movie does not spend enough time on his return to adequately convey how moving it is. Cast Away is eagerly anticipated primarily because it is the reteaming of Tom Hanks and Robert Zemeckis.
		In the end, it is Hanks, Zemeckis and Hunt who are able to elevate the Cast Away to a higher level, letting people forget the many missed opportunities.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/cast_away.html (506 words)

	Cast Away: Special Edition (2000)
		While I never saw Cast Away prior to my acquisition of the DVD, I still didn’t enter it as fresh as I would have liked; the slate wasn’t full, but nor was it blank.
		For Cast Away, Hanks again needed to go through some physical changes, and these were actually more severe than those experienced for Philadelphia.
		Cast Away appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 1.85:1 on this single-sided, dual-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
	www.dvdmg.com /castaway.shtml (4011 words)

	"Cast Away" / a review from Christian Spotlight on the Movies
		When someone is "cast away" and isolated from civilization for an extended period, there are the dual problems of "What happens if I don't get back?" and "What happens if I do?" Cast Away provides good food for thought in a compelling story.
		Cast on an uninhabited island, Chuck must use all his skills and wits to satisfy his basic human needs.
		Cast Away was one of the better movies I have seen in quite a while.
	www.christiananswers.net /spotlight/movies/2000/castaway.html (1992 words)

	Cast Away (2000): Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, Christopher Noth, Nick Searcy - PopMatters Film Review
		Cast Away chronicles one, but never lets the viewer forget that the others exist.
		Repeatedly, Cast Away uses a minimalistic realism to frame its argument, not so much that material culture is bad, but that we take it for granted.
		Cast Away's fundamental plot turn is, of course, the plane crash -- it changes everything.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/c/cast-away.shtml (1108 words)

	Cast Away (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In Cast Away, Tom Hanks plays Chuck Noland, a time-obsessed Federal Express executive who tells his girlfriend (the ubiquitous Helen Hunt) one Christmas Eve that he’ll be right back, crash lands somewhere in the Pacific, and spends the next four years of his life on a remote desert island conversing with a volleyball.
		It just so happens that Cast Away is one of the best films of the year.
		Cast Away is a modern day Robinson Crusoe on paper but director Zemeckis avoids a lot of easy pitfalls, strengthening the emotional experience in the process.
	www.members.dca.net /dnb/reviews/castaway.htm (405 words)

	Cast Away (Robert Zemeckis) Tom Hanks Helen Hunt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Still, even though the overlong Cast Away pretends to be considerably loftier than it actually is—much like Zemeckis’s previous collaboration with Tom Hanks, Forrest Gump—the film does boast top-line production values and outstanding special effects, which are used to create what may well be the most harrowing plane crash ever filmed.
		Cast Away is also immensely helped by Alan Silvestri’s inspirational score, which we first hear about two hours into the film, when Chuck finally escapes his tropical prison.
		The number of extras on the Cast Away DVD is quite impressive; their quality, however, is only so-so.
	www.altfg.com /Reviews/Castaway.htm (1411 words)

	Cast Away. A Hollywood Jesus Movie Review
		Away from the phones, the traffic, the tv, the noise, and just listen to life happening around us.
		Cast Away was an entertaining movie and much more thought-provoking than most of the dreck cranked out by Hollywood.
		I suspect it is. I'm NOT suggesting that the filmmakers should have turned Cast Away into a religious conversion story, but even a couple of spiritual references (even vague New Age ones) would have made the Noland character more believable.
	www.hollywoodjesus.com /cast_away.htm (3690 words)

	The Flick Filosopher \| Cast Away (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Cast Away is an incredibly daring film for a major studio to take on -- which is perhaps why two, DreamWorks and Fox, shared the risk.
		As admirably restrained as the directing is, and as sensitive as the script is, Cast Away was always Hanks' to win or lose.
		It's a performance free of any hint of the gosh-darn, uncomplicated niceness that had been threatening to limit Hanks as an actor, and Hanks is ultimately what makes Cast Away a tremendously moving film about the things that make us human, and the things we cling to in order to retain our humanity.
	www.flickfilosopher.com /flickfilos/archive/004q/castaway.shtml (771 words)

	JoBlo reviews the movie "Cast Away"
		Cast Away's biggest moment is the plane crash...
		The end seemed very real and believable to me. My only complaint about "Cast Away" was that the last 20 minutes or so seemed a little drawn out, but only a little.
		Cast Away evokes emotions of the human spirit.
	www.joblo.com /castaway.htm (3607 words)

	Tampa Bay Area Fishing Charters
		Cast Away Charters specialize in fishing the bountiful waters of Florida’s Tampa Bay area.
		Charters depart from the shadow of the Sunshine Skyway in the Bradenton and Palmetto – on Tampa Bay’s southern shores.
		Imagine the thrill and the power felt when a two hundred pound tarpon breaches the surface of the sky blue waters of Tampa Bay attempting to cast away the hook from his mouth.
	www.castawaychartersinc.com (180 words)

	Castaway script by William Broyles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		CAST AWAY by William Broyles THIRD DRAFT March 13, 1998 FADE IN: EXT.
		Chuck rips away the bamboo, grabs the nest of shavings, and blows on it frantically.
		He CUTS an angry big line under the last mark, then hacks away at the palm tree, slashing it with the stone knife, ripping and marking through all his dates.
	www.dailyscript.com /scripts/castaway.html (15519 words)

	Cast Away
		Cast Away is worth your while long before you reach the anti-
		In terms of story and pacing, the whole of Cast Away is a lot less then the sum of its parts.
		Although 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.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/cast_away (971 words)

	Cokemachineglow.com : Rose Melberg: Cast Away the Clouds
		Cast Away the Clouds is Melberg’s second solo release, and really her first proper album after the odds-and-sods collection Portola.
		What makes Cast Away the Clouds easy to love is the fact that she has changed, and for the better.
		The intervening time spent raising a family seems to have caused the singer/songwriter to blossom, and though none of these songs are about her new life (or so she claims), her contentment shines through despite the rainy-day lyrics.
	www.cokemachineglow.com /reviews/melberg_clouds2006.html (796 words)

	Cast Away
		The central 90 minutes or so of Cast Away, as its title indicates, portray the attempts of Hanks' Chuck, the lone survivor of a plane crash in the South Pacific, to stay alive on the unpopulated atoll where he washes up.
		With no one to talk to but a volleyball (necessity, as we know, is the mother of invention), Chuck has to adapt shelter, preserve his clothing, gather food, patrol for animals, and signal any plane or watercraft that should errantly pass near his remote coordinates.
		I say so because this material insists, as do its press releases, that Cast Away is about existential despair, or the triumph of the will over adversity, or some such theme, but the film is too bashful to hit the bottom-most circles of that adversity.
	www.nicksflickpicks.com /castaway.html (1458 words)

	Cast Away
		Cast Away is even more of a showcase for the talent of Tom Hanks than Forrest Gump.
		Hanks spends very little time in Cast Away speaking at all, and when he does, it’s mostly in conversation with a volleyball.
		To say little so as not to give away the end, look at Hanks’ face, thin, pale, and full of more expression with less effort than most Hollywood actors could manage if they spent a week in front of their mirrors fully pronouncing the vowels.
	hugereviews.com /Movies/cast_away.htm (1202 words)

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