Cast Away

This is the ultimate Robert Zemeckis film. A man, alone with a problem that he needs to solve, a handful of tools at his disposal, all of which he uses, and long takes. This is the movie that he was born to make, and it’s the movie he had been building up to with decades of experience. Young Zemeckis could not have pulled off the quiet of Tom Hanks’ life on a deserted island like this.

Chuck is a FedEx employee who helps set up and fix foreign branches of the company. He starts in Moscow,...