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1) Cast away
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2001
Description
Chuck, a top international manager for FedEx, and Kelly, a Ph. D. student, are in love and heading towards marriage. Then Chuck's plane to Malaysia ditches at sea during a terrible storm. He's the only survivor, and he washes up on a tiny island with nothing but some flotsam and jetsam from the aircraft's cargo. Can he survive in this tropical wasteland? Will he ever return to woman he loves?
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"The world's leading center for Shakespeare studies. Each edition includes: - Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play -Scene-by-scene plot summaries -A key to the play&;s famous lines and phrases -An introduction to reading Shakespeare&;s language -An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective -An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play -Fresh images...
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Prospero, the deposed Duke of Milan, uses his skill at controlling natural forces to cause the shipwreck of his old opponents, forcing them to seek refuge on the island where he and his daughter Miranda have been living in exile, and setting the stage for Miranda to fall in love with Ferdinand, the prince of Naples. Includes explanatory notes, plot summaries, critical essay, and illustrations.
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While Jack, Kate, and Locke investigate what's inside the hatch, the "tailies" are found. These survivors are from the tail of the plane and include tough girl Ana-Lucia and the spiritual and mysterious Mr. Eko. They come across a ship wrecked Michael, Jin, and Sawyer. Survivors begin being killed off, and ever so slowly secrets are revealed. Learn what happened to Walt when he left Michael with some very hard choices to make and get a better insight...
Series
Criterion collection volume 43
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2013
Description
In the hands of the renowned experimental theater director Peter Brook, William Golding's legendary novel on the primitivism lurking beneath civilization becomes a film as raw and ragged as the lost boys at its center. Taking an innovative documentary-like approach, Brook shot Lord of The Flies with an off-the-cuff naturalism, seeming to record a spontaneous eruption of its characters' IDs. The result is a rattling masterpiece, as provocative as its...
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The S.S. Minnow set sail on a three-hour tour. Along for the ride are the ship's captain, his first mate, an actress, a professor, a farm girl, a millionaire and his wife. They all become stranded on an uncharted South Pacific Island. Seven random people thrown together by fate, united in a search for a way off the island and back home again.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Navy pilot Robin Crusoe ditches his plane after engine trouble and becomes stranded on a tropical island with a poker-playing chimp, an abandonded sub, and a beautiful native girl named Wednesday who was exiled there for disobeying her overprotective father.
15) Pitch black
Description
When a group of marooned passengers must face a pack of terrifying creatures whose only weakness is the light, they turn to a vicious convict with an appetite for destruction and eerie eyes that can guide them through the darkness.
16) Utopia
Publisher
Platinum Disc Corp
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
Heading for a newly inherited island, Stan and Ollie are shipwrecked and marooned on an atoll which has just emerged from the sea. Along with their cook, a stowaway, and a girl who is fleeing her fiancé, they set up their own government. When the atoll turns out to be rich in uranium, the castaways scramble to stake their claim.
Publisher
Momentum Pictures
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Tensions are rising between the carnivores and herbivores on Noah's Ark as they drift without land in sight and food supplies dwindle -- when best friends Finny and Leah are washed overboard with all the remaining food! Waking up in separate places, each faces separate dangers racing against volcanoes and time in order to get back to each other and their families!
19) Pitch black
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2004], ©2004
Description
When a group of marooned passengers must face a pack of terrifying creatures whose only weakness is the light, they turn to a vicious convict with an appetite for destruction and eerie eyes that can guide them through the darkness.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015
Description
At Last the castaways of the luckless S.S. Minnow make it back to civilization. But when they get home, they each discover that a lot has changed since they've been away. They arrange a sentimental reunion on the S.S. Minnow II, and a sudden storm beaches them on the same deserted isle, stranding them once again.
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