Castaway (DVD)

=== Castaway - DVD === Director: Robert Zemeckis Released: 2001 Running Time Approx: 143 mins Certificate: 12. ===Disk 1: Main Featurette=== This film stars Tom Hanks as Chuck Noland, A Fed-Ex manager who's proffesional and personal life is run by the clock. After a dinner with his friends and partner, he is sent away to work over christmas, and has to go to Malaysia on a business trip. Shortly before leaving, he has a brief encounter with his girlfriend Kelly (Helen Hunt), who gives him a gift of a photograph of her inside a watch. He then boards the plane and everything in his rushed to-the-minute life is going to plan. ...  Read the complete review

One of the most hyped films in recent weeks has been Tom Hanks' latest to-be-Oscar-nominated 'CAST AWAY'. I had looked forward to seeing this film since I first heard about it over a month ago and was definately NOT disappointed! Tom Hanks had purposely put on weight(for the first part of the film) and grew a real 'Grizly Adams' style beard - for the second half just for the film. I have always liked anything related to the ocean (apart from Perfect Storm !) and Hanks is hard to beat so..... these things all added to the anxiously awaiting Castaway's release. The movie was directed by Robert Zemeckis who last directed ...  Read the complete review

I have to admit that I was dragged kicking and screaming to the cinema to see this film as, to be honest, I couldn’t think of anything else more boring - a film about being stranded on a desert island. And it stars Tom Hanks. But I had the choice of going to see it or spend Saturday night at home watching mediocre tv programmes and devouring a big bar of Galaxy. There was no contest - the chocolate won hands down but I was practically dragged out of the door by my friends to the Odeon Cinema in "The Quay" beside the River Clyde in Glasgow. So I stocked up on popcorn, Maltesers and a large size Irn Bru and settled down expecting two ...  Read the complete review

I remember going to see this film years ago and i think it was one of the only films ive ever seen in the cinema with my dad. As Tom Hanks is one of my favourite all time actors, i couldnt wait to see this film and the adverts looked brilliant for it. If you have never seen Castaway, it is a drama film that came to our screens in 2000. It was directed by Robert Zemeckis and stars Helen Hunt along with Tom Hanks. The story centres around Chuck Noland who is a workaholic Fed-Ex employee who sorts out problems with productivity in their worlwide depots. Chuck is spending christmas with his relatives and he gets called away in the middle of his ...  Read the complete review

We recently got this DVD on offer in HMV. It was reduced to only £3 so we thought we would buy it as we had enjoyed watching the film before. Castaway was originally released in 2001 in the UK. The story of the film is based around a man who works for fed-ex (the parcel delivery company). Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) loves his job and travels all over the world to make sure the company get parcels to people in the quickest time possible. Chuck is obsessed by time and likes to time everything within his life. He is so busy with his job that he doesn't get to see his girlfriend Kelly Frears (Helen Hunt) as much as he would like. Unfortunately on christmas eve he ...  Read the complete review