Word: manning
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...viewers with the glee of a dinner-theater Iago. He was confidence embodied. At 250 lbs. before island life slimmed him down--SurvivorSucks.com dubbed him "Machiabelly"--he had no problem strutting around camp in the buff. Hatch attributed his pluck partly to being openly gay in a straight man's world--in a sense, he was the most real, least stereotypical gay "character" on network TV. And he didn't check his cockiness on Pulau Tiga. Posing for TIME, he vowed, "This is not the end of my 15 minutes." We'll check back in a quarter-hour, Rich...
...bray at, as he did to his harried underlings at work--no one to shore up his resolve or share his desperation. Well, all right. Chuck is a doer. So he will fashion tools, clothing, shelter; find food, draw cave paintings, make fire. He will replicate the ascent of man, all by his lonesome. He'll be Robinson Crusoe without Friday, Gilligan without the crew, Survivor without all those annoying other survivors...
Hanks has often played a decent man isolated--in his mind (Forrest Gump), his disease (Philadelphia), his bereavement (Sleepless in Seattle) or outer space (Apollo 13). As Chuck, he finds his best, most resourceful self in isolation. So does William Broyles Jr.'s script; the 80 minutes it spends on the atoll alone with Hanks make for engrossing storytelling. The film is less sure-footed back in civilization, with the girl Chuck left behind (Hunt). For its soul is on the beach, in its gradually unfolding secrets, its new perils and triumphs. The film has loved inhabiting the real estate...
...FAMILY MAN...
...Family Man is a film that's fun to argue with. But at the end you may surrender to its Wonderful Life portrait of middle-class coping, and to Cage's poignant anguish. His features crumble, his shoulders sink under the burden of a strong man's perplexity...