US Marshals - Wesley Snipes wishes he'd upgraded to a scheduled flight when his plane load of convicts crashes into a river. Email them to us . The parcels have to get through no matter what and even a two minute delay is too much. Helen Hunt is long-suffering girlfriend Kelly who puts up with Chuck jetting around the world at a moment's notice even just before Christmas when an urgent call takes Chuck off on another globetrotting errand. Disaster strikes midway across the Pacific when the plane, already hundreds of kilometres off course because of a storm, crashes into the murky depths.
Chuck manages to hang on to an inflatable boat and eventually washes up on a deserted island.
Here he attempts to feed himself and set up a basic living area, marking time before a hoped-for rescue. This period of the film spans three years as the initially chubby but subsistence-living, Chuck looses lots of weight and becomes adept at making ends meet. But as living on the island with only a volleyball for company starts to wear him down his mind starts to turn to escape and a return to Kelly. Much is made of the moviegoer-unfriendly time that Chuck spends on the island with no one to talk to except his volleyball Wilson, but Hanks powerful acting style manages to keep viewers enthralled. The problem is more with the scenes back in the US where little empathy is built up with Chuck and Kelly.