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When this movie first came out I was watching a Charlie Rose
interview of Tom Hanks. Imagine my suprise when Tom mentioned
that the original idea for this movie came from an interview of
Louis L'Amour. It was 1994 when he first saw the televised interview,
and it came out that L'Amour had been marooned on a deserted island.
While the interviewer was focused on the romance and beauty of
swaying palms, balmy weather and warm sands, Louis set him straight
about what a miserable situation being Cast Away really is.
......Paul O'Dell
BEAU'S
NOTES: The "desert island story" is actually in reference to a
claim that LL made to have been shipwrecked in the Gulf of Mexico
and pulled up onto a rock by two other men. He said the rock was
called West Breaker (down close to the coast of Venezula), they
had to stand when the tide came in, and they were horribly blistered
from sunburn. A sponge fisherman found them after three days and
took them to Cuba where they got passage back to the States.
After FedEx systems engineer Chuck Noland is ripped out of his
hasty "life by the clock" in a plane crash, he finds
himself alone on the shores of a tropical island. First, frustration
gets to him and then he realizes how little his chances are to
ever get back to civilisation. Four years later, Chuck has learned
very well how to survive on his own: mending his dental health,
catching fish with a spear, predicting the weather with a selfmade
calendar. A photograph of his girlfriend Kelly has kept his hopes
alive all these years. Finally, Chuck takes the opportunity to
take off for home: He sets off on a wooden raft with a sail that
has washed ashore.
STARRING: Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, Christopher Noth, Nick
Searcy, Lauren Birkell, Viveka Davis, Ashley Edner, Valerie Wildman
DIRECTED BY: Robert Zemeckis
Approxomate Running Time: 143 minutes
US Theatrical Release Date: December 22, 2000
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