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Synopsis: Cast Away is a 2000 American epic survival drama film directed and produced by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, and Nick Searcy. The film depicts a FedEx employee stranded on an uninhabited island after his plane crashes in the South Pacific and his attempts to survive on the island using remnants of his plane's cargo. The film was a critical and commercial success, and Hanks was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role at the 73rd Academy Awards for his performance.
Production: 20th Century Fox
  Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 15 wins & 33 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.8
Metacritic:
73
Rotten Tomatoes:
90%
PG-13
Year:
2000
143 min
Website
10,206 Views


CHUCK:

My guess is we're talking fuel filters

here, Fernando. The gas is dirty, these

jitneys get in the mountains, their

engines cut out.

FERNANDO:

That could lose us half an hour.

CHUCK:

Easy. Each way.

His beeper goes off.

INT. FEDEX OFFICES - MANILA - DAY - MOMENTS LATER

Chuck is on the phone.

CHUCK:

So it finally turned up...

Chuck hesitates for a moment, then looks at his watch.

CHUCK:

I'll catch the sweep tonight.

INT. FEDEX PLANE - NIGHT

Strapped into the jump seat behind the pilots, Chuck sleeps

with a mask over his eyes. On his lap are some travel

brochures. We see sailboats, we see the Florida keys.

EXT. ST. PETERSBURG FEDEX OFFICES - DAY

Christmas in Russia. Snow everywhere. Brightly colored

lights. Chucks gets out of a Volga with Aleksei. He has a

bag over his shoulder, the dented package under one arm.

INT. FEDEX OFFICES - DAY

The staff has assembled near the loading dock. Yuri the

station manager stands in front, occasionally catching the

eye of the attractive woman. Chuck displays the FedEx box.

CHUCK:

It took this test package thirty-two

hours to get from Seattle to St.

Petersburg, a distance of nine thousand

miles. And then it took forty-one hours

to get from our warehouse in St.

Petersburg to here, a distance of,

what --

ALEKSEI:

Six kilometers. Four miles.

CHUCK:

So how are we going to get this place

shaped up?

There's a muttered chorus of answers.

CHUCK:

There's only one way. We have to work

together. Every one of us depends on

everyone else. If one package is late,

we are all late. If one truck misses the

deadline, we all miss the deadline.

Let's start by taking a look around.

Chuck leads his team through the sorting area. Yuri squeezes

right next to him, ostentatiously carrying a clipboard.

Chuck stops.

CHUCK:

Here, this table is too far from the

wall. Packages can slip down...like...

(pulls out a package from

behind a table)

...this.

He hefts the package, as if trying to guess what's inside.

CHUCK:

What could be in here? Let's say one of

you sent it. Could be the closing papers

on your dacha, could be a toy for your

grandson's birthday, could be a kidney to

keep your mother alive. I don't think

you want your mother's kidney to end up

behind a table.

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William Broyles Jr.

William Dodson "Bill" Broyles Jr. is an American screenwriter, who has worked on the television series China Beach, and the films Apollo 13, Cast Away, Entrapment, Planet of the Apes, Unfaithful, The Polar Express, and Jarhead. more…

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