(EMAILWIRE.COM, December 20, 2000 ) Two-time Oscar® winner Tom Hanks was joined by guests Rosie O'Donnell, Chris Noth, John McEnroe and other celebrities at the premiere of "Cast Away," the 20th Century Fox feature film starring Hanks. The premiere for the film which opens nationwide Friday, December 22nd, was held at New York's Beekman Theater on Sunday, December 3.

Hanks and Zemeckis were expected to be joined by Sean Connery, Tom Brokaw, Charlie Rose, Edie Falco, Federico Castelluccio, Steven Van Zandt, Michael Imperioli, Kathrine Narducci, Harry Belafonte, Richard Price, Richard LaGravenese, David Koepp, Steve Kroft, Kylie Bax, Al Roker, Buck Henry and Judd Hirsch.

In "Cast Away", Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Robert Zemeckis and Hanks reunite to explore the blessings and heartache of fate and the survival of the human spirit. Hanks stars as Chuck Noland, a FedEx systems engineer, who survives a plane crash and becomes isolated on a remote island - cast away into the most desolate environment imaginable. After four years, fate gives Chuck a chance to fight his way back to civilization, only to find an unexpected emotional challenge greater than all the earlier physical ones.

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