감독: Robert Zemeckis
주연: Tom Hanks/Helen Hunt/Nick Searcy
전세계를 돌아다니며 ‘페덱스’의 직원 Chuck Noland는 여자친구 Kelly Frears와 크리스마스 이브에 로맨틱한 데이트를 끝내지도 못한 채 빨리 비행기를 타라는 호출이 울려 둘은 연말을 기약하며 헤어지게 된다.
Kelly가 선물해준 시계를 손에 꼭 쥐고 "페덱스" 전용 비행기에 올랐는데, 비행기가 착륙하기 직전에 사고가 난다. Chuck은 눈을 뜨니 아무도 살지않는 무인도에 파도에 떠밀려 온 것이다. Chuck은 살아남기 위해 새 환경에 적응하며 파도에 떠밀려온 페덱스 상자에서 발견한 배구공에 사람얼굴 모습을 그려 외로움을 달래며 하루하루 살아가게 된다.
Chuck은 매일매일 시계속의 Kelly얼굴을 바라보며 사랑하는 그녀를 꼭 만날 희망을 잃지 않고 삶을 지탱해 나간다. Chuck은 고립된 섬에서 섬을 빠져나갈 방법을 고안해내고 갖고 있는 모든 물건을 이용하여 뗏목을 만들어 섬에 표류한지 4년만에 거친 파도를 헤치고 탈출을 감행하는 story.
In 1995, Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) is a time-obsessed systems analyst, who travels worldwide resolving productivity problems at FedEx depots. He is in a long-term relationship with Kelly Frears (Helen Hunt), with whom he lives in Memphis, Tennessee. Although the couple want to get married, Chuck's busy schedule interferes with their relationship. A Christmas with relatives is interrupted by Chuck being summoned to resolve a problem in Malaysia.
Flying through a violent storm, his airplane crashes into the Pacific Ocean. Chuck is able to escape the sinking plane and is saved by an inflatable life-raft but in the process, loses the raft's emergency locator transmitter. He clings to the life-raft, loses consciousness, and floats all night before being washed up on an island.
After he awakens, he explores the island and soon discovers that it is uninhabited. Several FedEx packages from the crashed plane wash up on the shore, as well as the corpse of one of the pilots (whom he buries). He initially tries to signal for rescue and makes an escape attempt with the remnants of his life-raft, but he cannot pass the powerful surf. He searches for food, water, shelter, and opens the packages, finding a number of potentially useful items. He leaves one package, with a pair of wings painted on it, unopened.
During a first attempt to make fire, Chuck receives a deep wound to his hand. In anger he throws several objects, including a Wilson Sporting Goods volleyball from one of the packages. A short time later he draws a face in the bloody hand print on the ball, names it Wilson and begins talking to it.
Four years later Chuck is dramatically thinner, bearded, his hair is longer, and he is wearing a loincloth. He has become adept at spearing fish and making fires. He also has regular conversations and arguments with Wilson.
After a large section from a portable toilet washes up on the island, Chuck uses it as a sail in the construction of a raft. After spending some time building and stocking the raft and deciding when the weather conditions will be optimal (using an analemma he has created in his cave to monitor the time of year), he launches, using the sail to overcome the powerful surf. After some time on the ocean, a storm nearly tears his raft apart. The following day, "Wilson" falls from the raft and is lost, leaving Chuck overwhelmed by loneliness. Later, he is found drifting by a passing cargo ship.
Upon returning to civilization, Chuck learns that he has long been given up for dead; his family and friends held a funeral, and Kelly has since married Chuck's dentist and has a daughter. After reuniting with Kelly, the pair profess their love for each other but, realizing a future together would be impossible due to her commitment to her family, they part. Kelly gives Chuck the keys to the car they once shared.
Chuck then travels out into the country to return the unopened FedEx package to its sender. The house at the address is empty, so he leaves the package at the door with a note saying that the package saved his life. He then departs and stops at a remote crossroads. A woman passing by in a pickup truck stops to explain where each road leads. As she drives away, Chuck notices the illustration on her truck is similar to the one on the parcel. Chuck is left looking down each road. The camera focuses on his face as he looks toward the departing woman in the truck.
