A FedEx executive undergoes a physical and emotional transformation after crash landing on a deserted island.A FedEx executive undergoes a physical and emotional transformation after crash landing on a deserted island.A FedEx executive undergoes a physical and emotional transformation after crash landing on a deserted island.
- Nominated for 2 Oscars
- 15 wins & 36 nominations total
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- TriviaTo make himself look like an average out-of-shape middle-aged man Tom Hanks didn't exercise and allowed himself to grow pudgy. Production was then halted for a year so he could lose fifty pounds and grow out his hair for his time spent on the deserted island. During this hiatus, Robert Zemeckis used the same crew to film What Lies Beneath (2000).
- GoofsWhen the plane is going down, Chuck watches the ocean's surface approach through the pilots' windshield. When the plane strikes the water, he is thrown backward into the cargo area. In reality, he would have been flung forward, into the cockpit, and likely would have died from the impact.
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Chuck Noland: We both had done the math. Kelly added it all up and... knew she had to let me go. I added it up, and knew that I had... lost her. 'cos I was never gonna get off that island. I was gonna die there, totally alone. I was gonna get sick, or get injured or something. The only choice I had, the only thing I could control was when, and how, and where it was going to happen. 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. I had power over *nothing*. And that's when this feeling came over me like a warm blanket. I knew, somehow, that I had to stay alive. Somehow. I had to keep breathing. Even though there was no reason to hope. And all my logic said that I would never see this place again. So that's what I did. I stayed alive. I kept breathing. And one day my logic was proven all wrong because the tide came in, and gave me a sail. And now, here I am. I'm back. In Memphis, talking to you. I have ice in my glass... And I've lost her all over again. I'm so sad that I don't have Kelly. But I'm so grateful that she was with me on that island. And I know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?
- Crazy creditsWilson the Volleyball - Himself
- ConnectionsEdited into Wilson! (2006)
- SoundtracksHeartbreak Hotel
Written by Mae Boren Axton, Tommy Durden, and Elvis Presley
Performed by Elvis Presley
Courtesy of the RCA Music Group, a unit of BMG Entertainment
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Box office
- Budget
- $90,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $233,632,142
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $28,883,406
- Dec 24, 2000
- Gross worldwide
- $429,632,142
- Runtime2 hours 23 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1