The cast of CAST AWAY also includes Nick Searcy, Christopher Noth, Lari White, Geoffrey Blake, Jenifer Lewis and David Allen Brooks. CAST AWAY is a Fox and Dreamworks co-production that has been offered on DVD by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. Like most new big budget movies coming to DVD, CAST AWAY looks superb. The image is oh so crisp and finely detailed that textures in the foliage sand and the water are clearly visible. Colors are virtually perfect, with natural looking flesh tones and strongly saturated hues that appear completely stable.
Blacks are right on the money, plus the image produces excellent shadow detail and tremendous depth.
Clean dual layer authoring completely conceals all traces of digital compression artifacts. CAST AWAY features a very good Dolby Digital 5.1 channel sound mix, which works very effectively in both of the film's sonic environments. Civilization sounds very different from the island, but both make effective use of the discrete nature of the format. As with everyday life, I kind of tuned out the hustle and bustle of motor vehicles and the other sounds that drive the mechanized world. However, I certainly became aware of the sound mix during the film's plane crash sequence.