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Chuck Noland has everything: a successful, high-paying job, a woman who loves him, and enough money to buy anything he wants. The only thing he doesn't have enough of... is time. This changes when he is in a plane crash and, finding himself the sole survivor, makes his way to an uninhabited island where he has to figure out how to survive. Now Chuck has all the time he could ever want... and nothing else but his own wits, his two hands, and a volleyball for companionship.
If anything, like a modern day [[Robinson Crusoe]].
[[Tom Hanks]] tries to make a dramatic and emotional movie wherein 80% of its 2 1/2-hour length is him, alone, on a remote island, talking to a volleyball.
{{tropelist|Tropes in ''Cast Away'' are [[Product Placement|brought to you by Federal Express]].}}
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* [[Bloody Handprint]]: Wilson.
* [[Brick Joke]]: At the start of the movie the female welder sends a FedEx package to her husband in Moscow, who we see is cheating with a young Russian girl. At the end of the movie his name has been cut away from the sign above the entrance to her house.
* [[Can You Hear Me Now?]]: Portrayed realistically here.
* [[California Doubling]] : The movie was filmed on one of the small uninhabited islands belonging to [[Fiji]], even though the movie's island is supposed to lie somewhere south of the Cook islands.
* [[Chekhov's Armoury]]: After a while, Chuck opens the Fed Ex boxes that washed ashore with him, and the contents appear to be comically useless for his situation: video tapes, a volleyball, ice-skates and such. He finds a use for all of them, ''especially'' the volleyball.
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* [[Irony]]: Plenty of this when Noland returns to the abundant world of civilization. His 'welcome back' dinner consists mostly of seafood. His Swiss Army knife is attached to the keys he left with Helen. And light and fire is now available at the click of a switch.
* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]: {{spoiler|Chuck refuses to come between Kelly and her new husband.}}
* [[Large Ham]]: Chuck - after lived several years in the savage jungle everyone would become this.
* [[Legally Dead]]: Chuck finds himself in this state after being stuck on the island for five years.
* [[Loners Are Freaks]]: What Chuck becomes, although he at least seems to regain his sanity once he makes it back to civilization.
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* [[Meaningful Name]]: The shortened form of Chuck Noland's name is C. Noland: See No Land.
* [[Misplaced Wildlife]]: Averted, because there's ''no freaking wildlife'' except for the fish and crabs that Chuck catches for food.
** And maybe some sea birds, but we don't get to see any. The portrayal of the island as a vaguely primordial ecosystem (very little wildlife, only a few dominant species of plants) that can barely even support a small human population [[Shown Their Work|is fully in line with how such small Polynesian islands look like]]. It was shot on one of the more remote islands of Fiji (geographic border of Melanesia/Polynesia) and it shows...
* [[Mr. Exposition]]: A different take on this trope; Wilson serves as a means by which Tom Hanks' character can explain things to the audience.
* [[Music Video Syndrome]]: Rejected. While Tom Hanks's character is stranded on the desert island (the bulk of the movie), there is no background music at all.
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