CLIMATIC CASTAWAY in the film Castaway (2000) Chuck Noland, played by Tom Hanks, is a Fedex employee who must travel to Malaysia, but his plane crashes on a Pacific island, with him and Wilson (a beisball) being the only survivors. Carefully study the weather for months to try to escape, which he achieves after 4 years when he is rescued by a freighter. A simile of Robinson Crusoe, novel of Daniel DeFoe, based on the rescue of Alexander Selkirk on February 2, 1709 on the Chilean island of Mas a Tierra, today Robinson Crusoe.