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Tom Hanks ranks as one of Hollywood's most popular actors. Moviegoers eagerly anticipate in the opening of his new pictures. If you're a Hank fan, you don't have to wait much longer. Hank's newest film, Cast Away, opens this winter.

Tom Hanks plays Chunk Noland, a FedEx executive who lives by the clock. He carefully plans every minute of both his professional and personal time. But on his way home for the holidays, the small plane he's in crashes in the Pacific Ocean. Only Noland survives. He ends up alone on a tropical island and begins a battle for survival. In the process, his view of success and life itself change dramatically .

This role may be the most physically-challenging of Hank's career. The actor lost 53 pounds for the part. Director Robert Zemeckis shot the first section of the film with Hanks weighing more than 225 pounds. The filming took a break for a year while Hanks lost weight. To take off the pounds, Hanks ate little and exercised a lot.

The movie may surprise some of Hank's fans. It's not an upbeat comedy like Sleepless in Seattle or You're Got Mail. In fact, Hanks spends a large part of the movie not speaking. After all, who is there to talk to when you're alone on an island?

1. Who was Chunk Noland?
2. What movie is he from?
3. Who is he played by?
4. What did Hanks have to do for the role?
5. How much?
6. What did he weigh at the beginning?
7. How did he drop the weight?
8. Why would this film be unique to fans?
9. How come?
10. What happens on Noland's flight home?
11. Where?
12. Where does he end up?
13. How many others survived?
14. What personal views of Noland's are changed?
15. What is said about the physical demands of this film?
16. Who directed the film?
17. How long did it take for Hanks to lose the weight?
18. Does he talk a lot for this movie?
19. Why not?
20. When does the movie premiere?
1. a FedEx executive
2. Cast Away
3. Tom Hanks
4. Lose weight
5. 53 pounds
6. more than 225 pounds
7. Hanks ate little and exercised a lot.
8. It's not an upbeat comedy
9. It's about a battle for survival.
10. the small plane he's in crashes
11. in the Pacific Ocean
12. on a tropical island
13. No one else survives
14. his view of success and life itself change dramatically .
15. This role may be the most physically-challenging of Hank's career.
16. Robert Zemeckis
17. a year
18. No
19. He's alone on an island
20. this winter