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May 23, 2012 | Author admin

Cast Away Soundtrack

Cast Away (Two-Disc Collector’s Edition)

$5.75

Cast Away is a good movie that wants to be much better. While director Robert Zemeckis’s earlier film Contact achieved a kind of mainstream spiritual significance, Cast Away falls just short of that goal. That may explain why the film’s most emotionally powerful scene involves the loss of an inanimate object, even as it presents a heart-rending dilemma in its very human final act. It’s three mov…

Cast Away: The Films of Robert Zemekis & The Music of Alan Silvestri

$17.98

It might seem odd for Cast Away to be prominently featured on this retrospective soundtrack. First off, the film’s score is heard only in the final third of the film. But Alan Silvestri’s seven-minute end-credit track is a beautiful theme for the film and works as a stand-alone: it won a Grammy for best instrumental composition. The nine other cuts trace the music that composer Silvestri has creat…