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Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) is a top international manager, and systems engineer, for a company called FedEx. His life is sorted, he has a loving fiancee in Kelly Frears (Helen Hunt) who is a Ph.D. student and the two are very much in love.
However all this is about to change on his way to Malaysia, as his plane crash lands in the ocean leaving him the sole survivor. Now he finds himself deserted on a tropical island with nothing on it but flotsam and jetsam from the planes cargo.
First Chuck becomes frustrated by his current situaton, but this soon changes when he realises that the chances of him being found and returned home are slim. He must now learn to survive.
After four years Chuck has adapted well to his new lifestyle; he looks after his own dental health, hunts fish with a spear for food and even predicts the weather by the use of a self-made calender.
The only thing that has kept him going all these years is the photo of Kelly he still has and decides it's time to do something about his current predicament.
He now sets off for home on a small wooden raft using a sail he found washed onto the beach of the island. Now the question is; Will he ever survive this tropical wasteland to return home to the woman he loves.
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Film
Many of the week's top shows are featured in our new On The Couch weekly podcast, which looks at what we've watched and all that's best in the coming seven days.
(2000) (USA) 
(4 Star)
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