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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


The Sorter shoves the table against the wall. Yuri says

something to the Translator.

TRANSLATOR:

He says they have been very busy. It is

hard to get good employees. He is sure

you understand.

Wrong answer:
Chuck glances sharply at Yuri. Aleksei

appears with a cellular phone.

ALEKSEI:

Phone call. Malaysia.

Chuck takes the phone, opening his BAG as he does so.

CHUCK:

Kamal? Right. I'm getting them.

He pulls out a set of blueprints and tacks them to a bulletin

board as he talks.

CHUCK:

I'm looking at the blueprints of K.L.

right now. The belts are too small for

the sorters. Yeah, sometimes you never

see what's right in front of your face.

Look, it's --

Chuck keeps an eye on what is going on in the warehouse.

Then he notices something over by one of the trucks.

CHUCK:

(to a loader)

Hold it! Hazardous material needs its

own container!

(back on the phone)

-- three in the afternoon there, right?

That gives you five hours until the sweep

comes through. Do the sort by hand

tonight, then put in a new feeder belt,

say a twenty-four incher. Yes, overtime

is authorized.

He hangs up the phone. He turns to the crew.

CHUCK:

I'm going out on every route, I'm going

to work every job here, until I know

enough to help you. That's it.

The crew disperses back to work. Chuck and Aleksei walk

toward the office. They've done this before. Chuck lets a

corner of his command persona slip.

ALEKSEI:

It's bad.

CHUCK:

Worse than Warsaw.

ALEKSEI:

Nobody remembers that.

CHUCK:

The failures they remember. It's the

successes they forget.

EXT. ST. PETERSBURG - DAY - MOMENTS LATER

A FedEx truck pulls out of the FedEx office. Chuck is

inside. He notices the graffiti on the walls.

INT. TRUCK - MOMENTS LATER

Chuck rides next to LEV, the driver, a serious sort. The

Translator squats on some boxes between them, trying to keep

his balance.

CHUCK:

You sorted your packages before you left.

None of the other drivers did.

The Translator and Lev exchange a few words.

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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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