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Cast Away (2000) – Movie Trailer

Director: Robert Zemeckis
Stars: Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt

A man, an Island, a volleyball, and that’s about it. To say that Robert Zemeckis’ modern-day reimagining of Robinson Crusoe was a massive sensation when it came out in 2000 is an understatement. There were Oscar nominations, MTV Movie Award parodies, and DVD sales up the wazoo.

Today, Cast Away is not quite the edge-of-your-seat adventure it was 15 years ago, but Hanks’ near-silent portrayal of a man with nothing but his ball to play with is still a performance for the ages. (Even recent one-man outings like Locke don’t quite match Hanks’ everyman intensity.) And the movie is still exciting, especially if you haven’t seen it in a few years. Jarring sequences like the ice-skate dental surgery scene and coral-induced leg injury scene are cringe-inducing, and Wilson’s (spoiler alert!) untimely death is just as tragic today as ever. Wiiiiiiiilson!