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America's clean-cut screen idol, emaciated, covered with sores, talking to sporting equipment and riding a toilet to freedom: Is that box-office gold or what? "It definitely took someone of [Hanks' and Zemeckis'] level to get this movie made," says screenwriter William Broyles (Apollo 13). Hanks hooked up...
The crew of Cast Away is shooting "the moment." Hanks' emaciated, exposure-ravaged character, Chuck Noland, fleeing the island on which he's been marooned for four years after a plane crash, pounds through the surf and raises the sail: the wall of a portable toilet that washed ashore. (The...
Finally, a decade ago, Robert Zemeckis brought us Back to the Future II. Michael J. Fox's Marty McFly introduced us to the practical potentials of The Future--hoverboards, flying cars and two-way televisions, all by the year 2015.
He is sort of a New Age Billy Graham who has wormed his way into the high councils of state as spiritual consultant to the President. He is played with a nice shiftiness--you really wouldn't want to trust this guy with a church-collection plate--by Matthew McConaughey...
It turns out to look like a Club Med and to offer reunions with the dear departed, but without any sectarian representation of a diety. This turns cerebral Ellie into numinous jelly, but it is an alarming comedown from the director who played so entrancingly with time travel in the...