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DVD Cast Away (Double Digipack)
Cast Away is a good movie that wants to be much better. While director Robert Zemeckis's earlier film Contact achieved a kind of mainstream spiritual significance, Cast Away falls just short of that goal. That may explain why the film's most emotionally powerful scene involves the loss of an inanimate object, even as it presents a heart-rending dilemma in its very human final act.
It's three movies in one, beginning when punctuality-obsessed Federal Express systems engineer Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) departs on Christmas Eve to escort an ill-fated flight of FedEx packages. Following a mid-Pacific plane crash, movie number two chronicles Chuck's four-year survival on a remote island, totally alone save for a Wilson volleyball (aptly named "Wilson") that becomes Chuck's closest "friend." Movie number three leads up to Chuck's rescue and an awkward encounter with his ex-girlfriend Kelly (Helen Hunt, in a thankless role), for whom Chuck has seemingly risen from the grave.
It's fascinating to witness Chuck's emerging survival skills, and Hanks's remarkable physical transformation is matched by his finely tuned performance. With slow, rhythmic camera moves and brilliant use of sound, Zemeckis wisely avoids the postcard prettiness of The Black Stallion and The Blue Lagoon to emphasize the harshness of Chuck's ascetic solitude, and this stylistic restraint allows Cast Away to resonate more than one might expect. Even the final scene--which feels like a crowd-pleasing compromise--offers hope without shoving it down our throats. You may not feel the emotional rush that you're meant to feel, but Cast Away remains a respectable effort. --Jeff Shannon
This is a film about a plane that crashes near a deserted Island, emptying its fed-ex packages. The one package is Wilson, a volleyball, heard he did this role for free. O-yeah, Tom Hanks doing his best impersonation of Nick Nolte's D.U.I. mugshot. Enough of him, the film is Wilson, he takes camera direction well, doesn't mind sharing the island with a hobo, Hanks. Wilson catches all the fish, builds the huts, and makes love to a coconut, he is having fun. Hanks is just distressed over his woman, you got a hand pal, use it. When Wilson falls asleep and falls off the raft, I cried. What they didn't show is that he ended up in Cancun with the "Girls gone Wild Crew", man, by the time he was done he was deflated, thank God for Jenna Jamison to BLOW him up again. Wilson should have a star on Hollywood, Hanks needs to shave and wipe his butt with poison ivy.
man's will for suvival at its best
A man gets trapped in a Pacific island by plane crash. With no one to talk to or any signal for rescue, he has to find a way to get out of that island. I give five stars because it is as real as it can be.
No Man is an Island
Tom Hanks is terrific as a FedEx engineer who is marooned on an island after his plane crashes. "Cast Away" proves that a great actor, with a good script, can tell a compelling story even if he's the only one in it.
Though the script unfolds in a predictable way, Hanks keeps it afloat (no pun intended). Director Robert Zemeckis could have tightened the film a bit here and there, but "Cast Away" is still an engaging adventure story about how the will to live can help us survive.
The Academy Award winner for Best Picture, Best Director Robert Zemeckis, and Best Actor Tom Hanks, this unlikely story of a slow-witted but good-hearted man somehow at the center of the pivotal events of the 20th century is a funny and heartwarming epic. Hanks plays the title character, a shy Southern boy in love with his childhood best friend (Robin Wright) who finds that his ability to run fast takes him places. As an All-Star football player he meets John F. Kennedy; as a soldier in Vietnam he's a war hero; and as a world champion Ping-Pong player he's hailed by Richard Nixon. Becoming a successful shrimp-boat captain, he still yearns for the love of his life, who takes a quite different and much sadder path in life. The visual effects incorporating Hanks into existing newsreel... More Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 28 August 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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"The book was better" has been the complaint of many a reader since the invention of movies. Frank Darabont's second adaptation of a Stephen King prison drama (The Shawshank Redemption was the first) is a very faithful adaptation of King's serial novel. In the middle of the Depression, Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks) runs death row at Cold Mountain Penitentiary. Into this dreary world walks a mammoth prisoner, John Coffey (Michael Duncan) who, very slowly, reveals a special gift that will change the men working and dying (in the electric chair, masterfully and grippingly staged) on the mile . As with King's book, Darabont takes plenty of time to show us Edgecomb's world before delving into John Coffey's mystery. With Darabont's superior storytelling abilities, his touch for perfect... More Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 13 June 2000 Usually ships in 24 hours
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When Steven Spielberg was an adolescent, his first home movie was a backyard war film. When he toured Europe with Duel in his 20s, he saw old men crumble in front of headstones at Omaha Beach. That image became the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan, his film of a mission following the D-day invasion that many have called the most realistic--and maybe the best--war film ever. With 1998 production standards, Spielberg has been able to create a stunning, unparalleled view of war as hell. We are at Omaha Beach as troops are slaughtered by Germans yet overcome the almost insurmountable odds.
A stalwart Tom Hanks plays Captain Miller, a soldier's soldier, who takes a small band of troops behind enemy lines to retrieve a private whose three brothers have recently been... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Steven Spielberg DVD Release Date: Released the 25 May 2004 Usually ships in 1 to 2 weeks
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An enormously entertaining (if somewhat shallow) affair from blockbuster director Steven Spielberg. Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Frank Abagnale, Jr., a dazzling young con man who spent four years impersonating an airline pilot, a doctor, and a lawyer--all before he turned 21. All the while he's pursued by a dedicated FBI agent named Carl Hanratty (Tom Hanks), whose dogged determination stays one step behind Abagnale's spontaneous wits. Both DiCaprio and Hanks turn in enjoyable performances and the movie has a bouncy rhythm that keeps it zipping along. However, it never gets under the surface of Frank's drive to lose himself in other identities, other than a simplistic desire to please his father (Christopher Walken, excellent as always), nor does it explore the complex mechanics... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Leonardo DiCaprio - Tom Hanks - Christopher Walken Director(s): Steven Spielberg DVD Release Date: Released the 06 May 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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In Road to Perdition, Tom Hanks plays a hit man who finds his heart. Michael Sullivan (Hanks) is the right-hand man of crime boss John Rooney (Paul Newman), but when Sullivan's son accidentally witnesses one of his hits, he must choose between his crime family and his real one. The movie has a slow pace, largely because director Sam Mendes (American Beauty) seems to be in love with the gorgeous period locations. Hanks gives a deceptively battened-down performance at first, only opening up toward the very end of the film, making his character's personal transformation all the more convincing. Newman turns in a masterful piece of work, revealing Rooney's advancing age but at the same time, his terrifying power. Jude Law is also a standout, playing a hit man-photographer with... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Tyler Hoechlin - Tom Hanks Director(s): Sam Mendes DVD Release Date: Released the 25 February 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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