Robert Zemeckis · 2000 · survival

Robert Zemeckis's 2000 film. FedEx systems engineer Chuck Noland's plane goes down over the Pacific, stranding him alone on a deserted island with only a volleyball for company. Over four years he learns to survive, then builds a raft and casts himself back onto the open ocean, is rescued, and returns to a Memphis and a life that have moved on without him.

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   Memphis

   The FedEx hub where the time-obsessed engineer Chuck Noland boards a cargo flight for a routine assignment across the Pacific, leaving behind the woman he means to marry.

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   The island

   The uninhabited South Pacific island where Chuck washes ashore after the crash, surviving four years alone with a volleyball named Wilson as his only companion.

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   Texas

   Rescued from his raft on the open ocean, Chuck returns to a changed America - to deliver, at last, the one FedEx package he never opened, and to stand at a crossroads of a life resumed.