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Cast Away, a review by Tom

Title: Cast Away
Year: 2000
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Rating: FSK-12
Length: 138 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85
Audio: English: Dolby Digital 5.1, German: Dolby Digital 5.1, Commentary: Dolby Digital Stereo
Subtitles: Dutch, English, German

Stars:
Tom Hanks
Helen Hunt
Timothy Stack
Chris Noth

Plot:
Tom Hanks 'gives one of the towering screen performances of all time' (New York Post) as Chuck Noland, a FedEx systems engineer whose ruled-by-the-clock existence abruptly ends when a harrowing plane crash leaves him isolated on a remote island. As Chuck struggles to survive, he discovers that his true personal journey, has only just begun.

Awards:

Academy Award	2000	Nominated	Best Actor	Tom Hanks
Academy Award	2000	Nominated	Best Sound	Randy Thom, Tom Johnson, Dennis Sands, William B. Kaplan
AFI	2000	Nominated	100 Years... 100 Cheers (2006)
American Cinema Editors Awards	2001	Nominated		Arthur Schmidt
ASCAP Awards	2001	Won	Top Box Office Films	Alan Silvestri
BAFTA	2000	Nominated	Actor In A Leading Role	Tom Hanks
Blockbuster Entertainment Awards	2001	Nominated	Favorite Actor - Drama	Tom Hanks
Blockbuster Entertainment Awards	2001	Won	Favorite Supporting Actress - Drama	Helen Hunt
Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards	2001	Won	Best Inanimate Object	Wilson the Volleyball
Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards	2001	Nominated	Best Picture
Cinema Audio Society Awards	2001	Nominated	Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Feature Film	Randy Thom, Tom Johnson, Dennis S. Sands, William B. Kaplan
Golden Globe	2000	Won	Actor in a Leading Role - Drama	Tom Hanks
MTV Movie Awards	2001	Nominated	Best Action Sequence	"Plane Crash":
MTV Movie Awards	2001	Nominated	Best Kiss	Tom Hanks and Helen Hunt
MTV Movie Awards	2001	Nominated	Best Male Performance	Tom Hanks
MTV Movie Awards	2001	Nominated	Best On-screen Team	Tom Hanks and Wilson
Online Film Critics Society Awards	2001	Won	Best Actor	Tom Hanks
Screen Actors Guild Award	2000	Nominated	Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role	Tom Hanks
Teen Choice Awards	2001	Won	Film - Choice Chemistry	Tom Hanks, Wilson

Extras:
Commentary
Featurettes
Interviews
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Storyboard Comparisons
Trailers

A great movie! Tom Hanks is perfect in the role. He manages to carry this movie all by himself. He should have gotten the Oscar at the time. Not Russel Crowe.
There are some scenes, where I can't help myself but to think of the MTV Movie Awards parody with Andy Dick which was done at the time.



Rating:

(From December Marathons - DISCUSSION AND REVIEW THREAD on December 7th, 2009)

April Fool's Day (Remake), a review by addicted2dvd

Title: April Fool's Day
Movie Count:  10
TV Ep. Count:  3
Other Count:  2
Time Started:  11:45am

Plot:My Thoughts:
This is the 2008 remake of the 1986 cult classic. After getting this remake very cheap ($3.00 @ Big Lots) I heard that this movie is pretty much universally hated. So needless to say I went into this one with very low expectations. Even with that... I was not very impressed with this movie. This movie don't even start to get interesting until about half way through the movie... and then it is far from great. Well even though this is no more then an average movie (maybe even less then average) I can't get upset about it since it was only $3... a basic price of a rental.



(From Month Long Horror/Halloween Marathon: 2009 on October 4th, 2009)

Tom's TV Pilots marathon, a review by Tom

Everybody Loves Raymond: Season One (1996/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia HBO Home Video (United States) Length: 506 min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.33, Full Frame 1.33:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround, Spanish: Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround, French: Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround, Commentary: Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

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Plot:
Standup comedian Ray Romano stars as Ray Barone, a successful sportswriter and devoted husband to Debra (Patricia Heaton, Beethoven) who must deal with his brother and parents, who happen to live across the street. Frank (Peter Boyle, While You Were Sleeping) and Marie(Doris Roberts, Remington Steele) love to meddle in his life, while older brother Robert (Brad Garrett, Suicide Kings) sometimes resents his success. Nevertheless, Ray manages to keep a bight outlook and a sense of humor as he balances his family and work lives.


Everybody Loves Raymond
1.01 Pilot
Writer: Philip Rosenthal (Writer)
Director: Michael Lembeck
Cast: Ray Romano (Ray), Patricia Heaton (Debra), Brad Garrett (Robert), Madylin Sweeten (Ally), Doris Roberts (Marie), Peter Boyle (Frank), Stephen Lee (Leo), Amber Ferreira (Matthew & Gregory), Drew Ferreira (Matthew & Gregory), Justin Ferreira (Matthew & Gregory)

This is a series, where I usually enjoy an episode when I watch it, but I never rush out to watch them. I still have the last three seasons in my unwatched pile.

Rating:

(From Tom's TV Pilots marathon on April 10th, 2011)