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www.culturevulture.net - : When the hero of Robert Zemeckis’ Cast Away returns to civilization after spending four years marooned on a South Pacific island, he’s welcomed back in a homecoming staged by his employers. We glimpse but a second of the ceremony, and even that we see only through a videotape that’s being played in an empty office. The movie has more important things on its mind right then: the first reunion between Chuck Noland and his former fiancée who, having given him up for dead, has married another man. The moment is typical of the way the surprisingly low-key Cast Away works: action that other films (including other Zemeckis films) would deliver with great fanfare are here muttered out of one corner of the movie’s mouth. more...
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