CAST AWAY movie question....... ANYBODY KNOW?????

Question

My friends and I had this huge talk about the movie CAST AWAY.

They said that he was stranded for a few months or so, and came back and found out his girlfriend was married to someone else.

I said that that was ridiculous. It couldn't have been a few months. She wouldn't move on THAT QUICKLY.

So I think he was stranded for YEARS.

Anybody know how long he was stranded for??

Answer 1

Here is the full synopsis of the movie that I found on Wikipedia. The 7th paragraph states that it was the period of 4 years that he was stuck on the island.

"In the opening scene, a FedEx truck rolls past a large sign reading "Dick-Bettina" to a ranch-style Texas residence where the driver takes for delivery a FedEx package marked with a custom logo in the form of angels' wings. These wings are also seen as freestanding sculptures on and within the property. The woman sending the package, an artist in a welder's suit, tells the driver she will have another one for him to take that coming Thursday. We see the package delivered all the way to a residence in Moscow, Russia, to a man in a cowboy hat and robe. A Russian woman who is with the man, apparently on intimate terms, asks, "Who is it from?". He replies, "My wife".

The next scenes follow Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks), a highly efficient FedEx executive, as he attempts to improve the performance of FedEx's Moscow branch. He returns to the U.S. (Tennessee), where he is trying to guide a relationship with his girlfriend Kelly Frears (Helen Hunt) toward marriage. It is obvious that Chuck's harried professional life with FedEx is making it difficult to progress with Kelly. Their Christmas together is interrupted by a last minute business trip. They exchange presents in the car on the way to the FedEx hub, Kelly giving him a family heirloom timepiece holding a photo of herself and Chuck giving her a number of joke presents before solemly offering her an engagement ring. She is too nervous to open it and he walks off to the FedEx jet saying, "I'll be right back".

While flying through a thunder storm somewhere over the southern Pacific ocean, the flight goes disastrously wrong, crashing into the nighttime sea in flames. Saved by an inflatable raft, Chuck is stranded alone on a deserted tropical island. After landing and ascertaining the island is uninhabited, Chuck's most immediate need is drinking water, which he satisfies by drinking coconut water and later by storing rain water in the discarded husks. His second immediate need is shelter, which he secures by draping his raft over palmtree trunks and, later, by discovering small caves in the island rock. Chuck's third task is food. He attempts to fish, but is wholly unsuccessful at the start. As time progresses, his fishing skills steadily increase. Shortly after his first fishing attempt, he finds a compelling need to produce fire, which after great effort, many attempts, and some injury he succeeds in doing.

Fortunately for Chuck a few FedEx packages from the plane and the body of one of the pilots wash up on the shore shortly after he lands on the island. After some refitting, Chuck dons the pilot's rubber-soled shoes and improvises some tools from items in the washed-up packages, in particular a pair of gift ice-skates. Chuck also finds a small pocket flashlight amongst the pilot's possessions. Around this time, at night, he sees a light on the horizon, presumably from a search party, and having realised the futility of attracting attention using the flashlight, he takes to the sea on the tiny life raft, which he has repaired. However, he is thwarted by the high surf around the island's reef.

As time passes it seems Chuck has risen to the challenges of physical survival but it is also evident he is in a fragile mental state, relying heavily on his memories of Kelly.

One of the FedEx packages bears the distinctive angels' wings custom logo observed in the first scene. It is the package the artist woman mentioned she would be sending on "Thursday". For some reason, this is the only package Chuck does not open.

Four years later, a piece of a port-a-john appears on the shore. Chuck, now with a beard, long hair and wearing a loincloth, his body much leaner and weatherbeaten, uses this fragment as a sail for the raft he makes to leave the island. Chuck is waiting for the winds to shift so he can travel to the South Pacific's shipping lanes in the hopes that a passing ship will find him. It is also revealed that in previous years he has considered suicide as an alternative to escape from the island.

After construction of the raft, Chuck sets off into the ocean, desperately hoping for rescue. By raising his hinged, makeshift sail (which bears a marked resemblance to the angels' wings logo) at a precisely timed moment in the curl of a wave, he pushes through the rough reef break that foiled him years earlier. After sailing for an unknown period of time over a distance of about 600 miles—when he is on the verge of death—he is rescued by a passing cargo freighter.

On returning home, Chuck must come to terms with the fact that almost everyone he knew has irrevocably changed, including Kelly who has since married and had a child with another man. Kelly revealed that the island where Chuck was marooned is located 600 miles south of the Cook Islands. After a dramatic scene in which the pair comes close to resuming the romance, Chuck reconciles himself to "losing her all over again". In the film's short philosophical coda, Chuck explains to his close friend, "I've got to keep breathing. Because tomorrow, the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?"

The film ends with Chuck at a remote crossroads after delivering the one unopened package from the island to the residence from the first scene (due to the long passage of time, the package is being returned to sender). The sign over the residence has had the "D*ck" portion of the "D*ck-Bettina" name removed, but the angels' wings sculptures are still there. No one is home so Chuck leaves the package propped in the screen door with a note, which reads "This package saved my life." Chuck returns to the crossroads a short distance away, stopping his car to study a map. The artist woman, pretty, friendly, and around his own age, drives up in an antique truck and says, "You look lost." She describes where all the roads branching from the intersection lead. He thanks her, and as she drives away, Chuck notices the angels' wings painted on the back of her truck. A long close up of Chuck smiling directly into the camera closes the film.

Answer 2

4 years

Answer 3

5 years

Answer 4

Cast Away Scenes

Answer 5

4 years.

Answer 6

5 years or more

Answer 7

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Answer 8

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Answer 9

4 years- it said so. After he knocked his tooth out (which, it goes without, is exceedingly manly), a new scene opens with a fish he is soon to spear, and the text "Four Years Later" appears. Tell your friends that you own them and the lives of their first-born

Answer 10

The package gave him hope for the future. He hoped that he would be able to return to deliver it. The wings were symbolic to fly away. He did work for a express mail company.

Answer 11

Years I believe 5 or more--I just saw the end last night.