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Cast Away is a 2000 American survival drama film directed and produced by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks as a FedEx employee stranded on an uninhabited island after his plane crashes in the South Pacific. The film depicts his attempts to survive on the island using remnants of his plane's cargo. The film was a critical and commercial success, and Hanks was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role at the 73rd Academy Awards for his performance. This was the first film to be produced by Hanks' production company under its new aegis Playtone (formerly Clavius Base).
In 1995, Chuck Noland is a time-obsessed systems engineer, who travels worldwide resolving productivity problems at FedEx depots. He is in a long-term relationship with Kelly Frears, with whom he lives in Memphis, Tennessee. Although the couple wants to get married, Chuck's busy schedule interferes with their relationship. A Christmas with relatives is interrupted when Chuck is summoned to resolve a problem in Malaysia. While flying through a violent storm, his plane crashes into the Pacific Ocean. Chuck escapes the sinking plane and is saved by an inflatable life-raft but loses the raft's emergency locator transmitter. He clings to the life-raft, loses consciousness, and floats all night before being washed up on an island. After he awakens, he explores the island and soon discovers that it is uninhabited.
Cast away, oh cast away
Along the rocky coast
What will you miss the most
Now that you’re never going home
Fill the space, oh fill the space
With thoughts and revelations
As you claim your life’s station
Now that you’ll always be alone
Solitude is eternal
The company of your mind
The endless days of searching
And living with what you find
It sounds such a tragic place to be
But it has a certain beauty
The cavernous space inside
This world which we reside
Blowing through, oh blowing through
The wind, it scatters all
Brown leaves in the fall
And the murmur of our past
Flickering, oh flickering
A star wavers in the dark
It’s a brief but beautiful mark
It’s the heart that you know best
It’s not to get you down
Chin up, feel proud
You’re a member of the human race
It may not be glamorous, but it is your place
This is your face, so take it with grace
All those feelings that confuse
And all the love that you lose
It’s a part of this human race
It may not be easy, but it is your fate