Whit's the Script?

Cast Away

Season 1 Episode 7

Cast Away is a 2000 American survival drama film directed and produced by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, and Nick Searcy. Hanks plays a FedEx troubleshooter stranded on an uninhabited island after his plane crashes in the South Pacific, and the plot focuses on his desperate attempts to survive and return home. Initial filming took place from January to March 1999 before resuming in April 2000 and concluding that May.

Directed by Robert Zemeckis Written by William Broyles Jr.

Produced by

Steve Starkey

Tom Hanks

Robert Zemeckis

Jack Rapke

Starring

Tom Hanks

Helen Hunt

Nick Searcy

Cinematography Don Burgess Edited by Arthur Schmidt Music by Alan Silvestri

Production
 companies

ImageMovers

Playtone

Distributed by

20th Century Fox
 (North America)

DreamWorks Pictures
 (International)

Release date

December 22, 2000

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