With other similar survival movies drawing from real-life events, there is some question if Cast Away is based on a true story. The movie follows the story of FedEx executive Chuck Noland (Hanks) as he’s stranded on a deserted island in the middle of the South Pacific after a plane crash. Movies like 127 Hours and Adrift deal with the accounts of real people who faced impossible odds to survive, but Cast Away is more fiction than either of these movies. Nevertheless, there are many real-life experiences that influence the movie.