Flight of the Phoenix/Cast Away (2005, DVD)

FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX:

I really enjoyed this movie. The actors are well chosen, all play their parts great.

Dennis Quaid plays a pilot who has to pick up an oil rig team in the middle of the Gobi Desert. But things start to go wrong and he has to crash land in the desert. They hold out hope that someone will find them, but a mechanic believes he can design a new plane from the wreckage. They begin building it, but they have to be careful to ration the remaining food and water properly. They have to also deal with sandstorms and some murderous desert raiders along the way.

The cast is: Dennis Quaid, Tyrese Gibson, Miranda Otto, and Giovanni Ribisi.


CAST AWAY:

This is one of Tom Hanks best films yet! I certainly enjoyed it.

Tom Hanks plays a play called Chuck Noland who works for Federal Express, who's always on the go at a moment's notice. He's called away for business on Christmas night and his girlfriend and he have Christmas in their car. When he leaves the car the last thing he says to her is that he'll be right back. Well that doesn't happen. The plane ends up in an unexpected storm, they lose radio contact, they go off course and it crashes. Chuck is the sole survivor of the crash, and washes ashore of a deserted island. While stranded there, he must learn how to survive in the wilderness by himself.