Almost 20 years ago, director Robert Zemeckis and actor Tom Hanks took a pretty big gamble. With the creation of Cast Away, the team that made Forest Gump an award winning blockbuster wanted to ...

Cast Away was Hanks’ second movie with Robert Zemeckis, after Forrest Gump. They would go on to make The Polar Express together. Hanks did his impression of Zemeckis not reassuring him at all.

Tom Hanks, in Cast Away, really put himself through the wringer to make the movie emotional and memorable. Hanks played Federal Express executive Chuck Noland, who survives a plane crash and ...

The unopened FedEx package in Cast Away symbolizes hope and the belief that the character can one day escape the island.; The third draft of the script reveals that the package contained salsa and ...

“Cast Away” is a sad movie of the sort that Hollywood almost never makes: not three-hankie sad, not “go have yourself a good cry” sad, but the kind of thing that, ...