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Others are forced to weather the worst the ocean can send their way in the films Cast Away, Nim's Island, The Perfect Storm, Snow Falling On Cedars, The Guardian and The Other Side Of Heaven.

Not exact matches

Robert Zemeckis has been spending time in the motion capture lab the last few years directing The Polar Express 61, Beowulf 59, and A Christmas Carol 55, but he's returning to live - action film directing for the first time since 2000's Cast Away 73 with Flight.

Could Hanks, who remarkably hasn't been nominated since 2000's Cast Away (a race he ludicrously lost to Gladiator's Russell Crowe), end his drought as he couldn't with acclaimed performances in esteemed films like Captain Phillips and Sully?

She later ran away to Los Angeles, where she met Gregg Araki, Doom Generation director, and he cast her in his film.

But the dazzle of the cast and the targeted in - jokes never take away from the film's core messaging about the importance of believing in one's own ability as an artist.

With films like Back to the Future, Forrest Gump, and Cast Away, Robert Zemeckis has told some of cinema's most enduring, iconic, and moving stories.

Director Robert Zemeckis, working from a screenplay by John Gatins, has been loitering in the creepy motion - capture vineyards for a long time: «The Polar Express» and «Beowulf» are not likely to rank high alongside his «Back to the Future» films or «Forrest Gump» or «Cast Away.»

Cooper's ensemble cast in 2013 far and away outdoes that of his critically more successful debut film in 2009, and is probably one of the best casts of the year.

Allied is unusually linear, after the initial setup: Max is told he married a German spy in Marianne; against orders and behind Marianne's back, he sets out to disprove it.2 The apologist urge is to call it a maturation of Zemeckis's style, to tell a story so simply and economically (even if we've kind of been here before with Cast Away), but the film feels conspicuously underdeveloped as opposed to streamlined, to the extent that the big reveal seems as if it was decided on a coin toss; it's easy to imagine the opposite outcome without any sort of retrofitting to accommodate it.

It's just a pity that it suffers slightly from its eccentricities with the cast which, while not necessarily taking away from the film, are definitely a mild distraction.

As of now, Ehrenreich is the only actor on board the project, but expect many more casting announcements to come soon, considering that a recent tweet from co-director of the film Christopher Miller seems to suggest that shooting isn't far, far away.

The films come at regular intervals, they look good, have a great cast of actors I can get behind and a story I like but I've never walked away from a new Potter film feeling wowed.

Although their film «It's Only the End of the World» and its star - studded cast was largely rejected by the critics, it walked away with the Grand Prix from The Croisette.

To get away from the idea of gritty low - budget Noir or any B - movie sense (and because the spy films from James bond on down were making so much money), Warner and Newman went the big time Hollywood route with an all - star cast for the first Harper film including Lauren Bacall, Shelley Winters, Julie Harris, Arthur Hill, Janet Leigh, Pamela Tiffin, Robert Wagner, Strother Martin and made it a point it was Hollywood getting gritty on its own big time terms.

It's also his most purely enjoyable film since «Cast Away.»

Overall this is a dreadful film that if you take those scares away, there's nothing here to enjoy and the film falls apart very rapidly due to its cast and poor plot.

«Day - Lewis works at such a high - wire level that many of the film's supporting cast members simply fade away.»

Now after 13 long years away see's director «Robert Zemeckis» return to the physical world for his first live - action film since 2000's Cast Away, so as you can imagine excitement and expectations are at an all time haway see's director «Robert Zemeckis» return to the physical world for his first live - action film since 2000's Cast Away, so as you can imagine excitement and expectations are at an all time hAway, so as you can imagine excitement and expectations are at an all time high.

This latest film may actually have as much in common with Cast Away as it does with any of the space - based films, and while many movies these days seem to be advertisements for Apple, this one is owed a debt by the duct tape company.

Yet, Hollywood was still decades away from casting studio films with African - American lead actors.

However, the official Twitter account shared — and subsequently deleted — a tweet which appears to have given away the voice cast for the animated film:

The cast is uniformly good, from Wahlberg getting away with a scene of histrionics to veterans like Bacon and Simmons giving the film exactly the reliable workmanship it needs.

127 Hours and Cast Away are the two only successful films that have an actor solely on screen for the majority of the film.

Seeing that Vincent D'Onofrio is in the cast immediately takes away any mystery about the bad guy's identity, but were there any doubt, the film exposes him in the first action sequence.

In his first live - action film since «Cast Away» (which also had one hell of an on - screen plane crash), Robert Zemeckis has returned first class story telling.

The film had an incredible cast who really blew me away with their performances.

Quentin Tarantino cast him in the relatively minor part of Billy Crash, but after Kurt Russell, who was to have played the right - hand - man of villain Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), walked off the set, Tarantino, blown away by Goggins» work on the film, incorporated Russell's character into Crash, rather than recasting.

There have been a handful of actors who have successfully maneuvered through a film where they are the only one on screen, (Hanks in Cast Away, Bullock Gravity, etc).

That's not to say that the film shies away from the darkness of Wiseau, specifically his arrogance, his terrible working habits like showing up late and treating his cast badly (including the non-catering of basic human necessities like water), and his jealousy of Sestero; the film delves into this side of Wiseau and bares it all.

A few films miraculously get away with messy storytelling if they can provide a memorable cast of characters and rousing action.

Then, suddenly Zemeckis gave it all up, producing a string of soulless behemoths, many of which reside among the worst films ever made: Death Becomes Her (1992), Forrest Gump (1994), What Lies Beneath and Cast Away (both 2000).

Survival is the top priority in these films too: Cast Away, Flight of the Phoenix, Swiss Family Robinson and Far From Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog.

For all of Netflix's efforts to break into the film awards - season game outside of their documentaries, the streaming service walked away with the Robert Altman cast ensemble award for its $ 12.5 million Sundance Film Festival pickup Mudbound.

The special effects are outstanding and Abrams never lets you forget the cast is in outer space, from simple touches like light reflections seemingly coming out to the viewer or in space battles that far and away eclipse anything done before in the Star Trek films.

Even so, and despite Black's bland presence, the third Fast and the Furious film offers the first glimpse of something truly engaging with this material, allowing Lin's friend and collaborator Sung Kang to walk away with the film without much effort and hammering home the franchise's broader themes of noble outlaw codes by transplanting them to an entirely separate group of people from the previous casts.

We are excited that our friend Tamara Glynn is returning to acting after a long hiatus away from the screen, having recently joined the cast of the Halloween horror film I See You, and now she has also been announced to join Bill Oberst Jr. in another upcoming independent horror film, On a Dark and Bloody Ground.

M.V.P: The cast is flawless, but it's New York - born Peyman Maadi who has the heaviest lifting to do as Nader, and he does that carrying like Atlas; never putting us in doubt that he's a good man, but one loyal to his family to a fault, and just shrouding his motivations away from view enough that the film's central question remains in question.

Populated with great character actors in a superb ensemble cast, the film sympathetically displays the believable motivations and everyday, idiosyncratic human personalities of the assembled characters, mostly two - bit criminals (one with a family) and a recently - paroled mastermind criminal (Sam Jaffe) who all dream of and long for a quick, million - dollar jewelry store robbery to provide salvation and a means of getting away for their impoverished lives.

A film that remains a masterpiece even with its various minor flaws, Cast Away is an engaging and emotionally powerful tale of the power of the human spirit and our will to survive.

Maybe there's a longer version of Blindness where they explain what happens to all the cast members who fall away from the film.

And the supporting cast, which actually strengthens the film and doesn't take away from it.

Director Ron Howard, wearing a hat that read «A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away,» introduced his cast before the film's international premiere at Cannes.

No matter the unique circumstances surrounding Doctor Strange, «Iron Fist» or this film, the end result is the same: Hollywood shies away from putting an Asian actor front and centre of big - budget productions, even those that necessarily call for such casting.

Though it delivers the familiar blend of production footage and interview comments, one comes away from this piece getting a real sense of the filming, as we hear from author Neil Gaiman, director Matthew Vaughn, and assorted cast and crew members.

John Hillcoat (Lawless, The Proposition, The Road) directs a stellar cast in an action epic that has something most films shy away from and that is being fearless.

In the process, the film fritters away the services of an impressive cast which includes Reynolds, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Oldman and Kevin Costner.

Zemeckis might not have repeated success on that order, but he continued to deliver high - caliber and commercially potent entertainment with films like Contact and Cast Away.

The music he created as the soundtrack to the Back to the Future trilogy remains, quite possibly, my favorite score ever set to film, while later works included the synth - heavy Flight of the Navigator, the sentimentalism of Forrest Gump & Cast Away (both part of his continued collaboration with Future director Robert Zemeckis) and more recently, heroic themes composed for Marvel's Captain America: The First Avenger, The Avengers and the upcoming Avengers: Infinity War.

All in all, it's a tense, endearing film where you're willing the main character to survive and make it home safely - think Cast Away in space.

At the very least, she gives our aimless hero a perfect excuse not to go back home and confront the crater where his life used to be (the film amusingly casts New York as the city where people go to face their demons, and L.A. as the one where they go to run away from them).