Castaway (film)

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Castaway
Castaway VHS cover
Directed by	Nicholas Roeg
Produced by	Rick McCallum
Written by	Lucy Irvine (book) Allan Scott (screenplay)
Starring	Oliver Reed Amanda Donohoe
Music by	Stanley Myers
Cinematography	Harvey Harrison
Editing by	Tony Lawson
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date(s)	February 20, 1986
Running time	117 min.
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
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For the 2000 film starring Tom Hanks, see Cast Away.

Castaway is a 1986 film starring Amanda Donohoe and Oliver Reed, and directed by Nicolas Roeg. It was adapted from the 1984 book of the same name by Lucy Irvine, telling of her experiences of staying for a year with writer Gerald Kingsland on the isolated island of Tuin, between New Guinea and Australia.

In 1981, Irvine responded to a "Writer seeks 'wife' for year on tropical island" advertisement placed by Kingsland in the London magazine Time Out. Chosen by Kingsland from over fifty applicants, Irvine agreed to marry him in order to satisfy Australian immigration restrictions before they travelled to Tuin. She was twenty-five and Kingsland forty-nine.

After a year on the island she returned to England and wrote her memoirs.

[edit] Cast

Actor	Role
Oliver Reed	Gerald Kingsland
Amanda Donohoe	Lucy Irvine
Georgina Hale	Sister Saint Margaret
Frances Barber	Sister Saint Winifred
Tony Rickards	Jason
Todd Rippon	Rod
John Sessions	Man in Pub
Virginia Hey	Janice
Sorel Johnson	Lara
Len Pheihopa	Ronald
Paul Reynolds	Mike Kingsland
Sean Hamilton	Geoffrey Kingsland
Sarah Harper	Swimming Teacher
Stephen Jenn	Shop Manager
Joseph Blatchley	Register
Simon Dormandy	Jackson
Ruth Hudson	Receptionist
Gordon Honeycombe	TV Newscaster