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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 [[
[[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.
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* [[Driven to Suicide]]: {{spoiler|It's gradually revealed that Noland tried to hang himself.}} {{spoiler|Planned, he planned to kill himself. Good thing he did a "dry run" first with a dummy, or else he would've just broken his legs and died of exposure or dehydration.}}
{{quote| {{spoiler|'''Chuck Noland''': So... I made a rope and I went up to the summit, to hang myself. I had to test it, you know? Of course. You know me. And the weight of the log, snapped the limb of the tree, so I-I - , I couldn't even kill myself the way I wanted to.}}}}
* [[Dyeing for Your Art]]: Tom Hanks grew a long, tangled beard and lost 30 pounds for his post-[[Time Skip]] appearance (and gained weight for the pre-timeskip appearance). While he was getting into shape, [[Robert Zemeckis]] shot ''[[What Lies Beneath]]'', Hanks produced ''[[Band of Brothers (TV series)|Band of Brothers]]'', and Helen Hunt shot ''[[Pay It Forward]]''.
* [[Exact Time to Failure]]
* [[Expository Hairstyle Change]]: By this time, Wilson is Chuck's BFF.
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* [[Gallows Humor]]: With a rotten tooth Chuck mentions to Wilson that his dentist back home was Dr. Spaulding.
* [[Genre Savvy]]: He's well aware that fictional portrayals of being on a desert island aren't realistic, and have left him unprepared.
{{quote| "Gotta love crab. In the nick of time too. I couldn't take much more of those coconuts. Coconut milk is a natural laxative. That's something [[
* [[Go Mad From the Isolation]]
* [[The Great Politics Mess-Up]]: At the beginning of the film, Chuck was setting up a Fed Ex office in Moscow, where they were still taking down pictures of Lenin and wowed by Snickers bars and [[Elvis Presley]] CDs.
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* [[Say My Name]]: {{spoiler|"WIIILLLLLLSOOOOOONNNNNNN! I'm sorry, Wilson!" Yes, only Tom Hanks can yell that line, believably, at a volleyball}}, and not make it [[Narm|sound stupid.]]
* [[Scenery Porn]]: But totally necessary, so we the audience know just how alone and isolated Chuck Noland really is when he's on that island.
* [[Setting Update]]: ''Cast Away'' is ''[[
* [[Sole Survivor]]: Chuck.
* [[Stood Up]]: Type 5.
* [[Stranger in
* [[Surrogate Soliloquy]]: The writers even gave dialogue for Wilson's (imagined) half of the conversation.
* [[Taught By Experience]]: A great demonstration here. A survivalist he wasn't, at first.
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