Cast Away
Tagline: "At the edge of the world, his journey begins."
Length: 143 minutesMPAA Rating: Rated PG-13 for intense action sequences and some disturbing images
Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) is a busy, globetrotting FedEx employee who is obsessed with the efficient use of time. Noland is enjoying spending a Christmas holiday with his girlfriend Kelly (Helen Hunt) when he is notified that he must immediately fly to yet another overseas work assignment. But during Noland’s flight, the plane crashes, and he winds up marooned alone on a tropical island for years. Noland must use every bit of ingenuity he has just to stay alive, and the film shows him becoming lonely, emaciated, and unkempt before it goes on to reveal what eventually happens to him.
Formats Available: DVD, VHS
Hard Core Logo
Tagline: "4 guys - 5 nights - 3000 miles - 764 gallons of gas - 987 bottles of beer - 3457 cigarettes - 1 last shot."
Length: 92 minutesMPAA Rating: R for strong language, substance abuse, some violence, and sexuality
This documentary-like film follows a fictional punk-rock band named Hard Core Logo as it plays cities in western Canada. The raw, spontaneous feel of the movie often successfully captures the punk sensibility. The band’s tour is fraught with problems as the lead singer and the lead guitarist continually clash. Also, the bassist is unable to stay on his lithium medication, and at one point the band takes a harrowing LSD trip. After a promising beginning, things gradually get worse and worse on the tour until it comes to a calamitous end in Edmonton.
Formats Available: DVD, VHS
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Tagline: "They have a plan, but not a clue."
Length: 106 minutesMPAA Rating: PG-13 for some violence and language
Based loosely on Homer’s The Odyssey, Joel and Ethan Coen’s comedy chronicles the adventures of three escaped convicts as they travel around the American South during the Great Depression. On their journey, Ulysses (George Clooney), Pete (John Turturro), and Delmar (Tim Blake Nelson) encounter a soothsayer, three seductive women washing clothes, and a one-eyed Bible salesman, not to mention "Baby Face" Nelson, a blues singer, and a Ku Klux Klan rally. When Ulysses finally reaches his wife Penny (Holly Hunter), she is preparing to wed another. The film’s soundtrack features enjoyable bluegrass music.
Formats Available: DVD, VHS
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