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Cast Away

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.

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