Cast Away (2000) Cast Away (2000)
A FedEx systems analyst survives a cargo plane crash in the South Pacific and spends four years alone on an uninhabited island, then returns to a world that moved on without him. Robert Zemeckis directed Tom Hanks in a film built around silence, endurance, and the weight of ordinary objects.
Quick Facts
| Director | Robert Zemeckis |
| Writer | William Broyles Jr. |
| Stars | Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, Nick Searcy, Chris Noth, Lari White |
| Producers | Tom Hanks, Robert Zemeckis, Steve Starkey, Jack Rapke |
| Composer | Alan Silvestri |
| Cinematographer | Don Burgess |
| Editor | Arthur Schmidt |
| Production Companies | ImageMovers, Playtone |
| Distributor | 20th Century Fox (US/Canada), DreamWorks Pictures (international) |
| Budget | $90 million |
| Box Office | $429.6 million worldwide |
| Release Date | December 22, 2000 |
| Running Time | 143 minutes |
| Filmed At | Monuriki Island, Fiji; Memphis, Tennessee; Canadian, Texas; Moscow, Russia |
Key Pages
- _Index — Full table of contents for this wiki
- Plot Summary (Cast Away) — Detailed plot walkthrough
- Cast and Characters (Cast Away) — Cast table and character profiles
- Production History (Cast Away) — The split shoot, the year-long break, Fiji, FedEx, and a near-fatal infection
- Themes and Analysis (Cast Away) — Isolation, time, objects, grief, and return
- Critical Reception and Legacy (Cast Away) — Reviews, Oscar nominations, Wilson's afterlife
- Physical Media Releases (Cast Away) — DVD, Blu-ray, and the missing 4K
- Backbeats (Cast Away) — The film mapped to a backbeat narrative structure
- Plot Structure (Cast Away) — Two Approaches framework analysis: quadrant, initial/post-midpoint approach, and the ten structural rivets
- Two Approaches Alternate (Cast Away) — Alternate reading: worse tools, insufficient — surrender as learned helplessness