Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Cast Away is a 2000 film by 20th Century Fox and DreamWorks about a FedEx employee who is stranded on a deserted island after his plane crashes "somewhere in the South Pacific." The movie was directed by Robert Zemeckis and starred Tom Hanks and Helen Hunt. Hanks' performance earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. The score was done by Alan Silvestri, who subsequently won a Grammy in 2002 for the End Credit Sequence. The movie has an interesting character called Wilson played by a volleyball. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.