Tom Hanks gives probably his best performance as Chuck Nolan. Helen Hunt plays the female lead in the role of Kelly Frears. And who could forget Wilson?
The heart breaking part of this movie is when Chuck returns from his island to find his friends and family have moved on without him, including his girlfriend/fiance. Chuck explains to a friend of his that after a while of being on the island he came to terms of never seeing Kelly again. However, when he escapes the island and tries to get his life back Kelly has moved on and gotten married. He says that it was as if he had lost her all over again.
Switching gears here, to either show his mind slipping or to try to keep his mind together, Chuck befriends a Wilson volley ball he names... Wilson. It is up to the viewer to decide whether or not Chuck talking to a volley ball for seven years is sane or insane. I believe it was a way for Chuck to cling to his humanity and his sanity. When Wilson is lost on the open ocean Chuck mourns him.
I always wanted to know what happened after Chuck talked to Bettina. Bettina is the woman at the beginning of the movie in the welding shop on the farm. She is also the woman at the end of the movie who gives Chuck directions at the crossroads. I always wondered if he would go back to Bettina's farm to tell her that it was her "angel wings" that saved him.
Using IMDB's scale of 1 to 10 stars, I give this a 10. It was a powerfully dramatic movie. There was some comic relief thrown in with the interaction between Tom Hanks and the volley ball.
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