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Directed by | Nicolas Roeg |
Screenplay by | Allan Scott |
Based on | Castaway by Lucy Irvine |
Produced by | Rick McCallum |
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Cinematography | Harvey Harrison |
Edited by | Tony Lawson |
Music by | Stanley Myers and Hans Zimmer |
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Distributed by | Columbia-Cannon-Warner Distributors[1] |
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Running time | 117 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Box office | $1 million (UK/US) |
Castaway is a 1986 British biographical-drama film directed by Nicolas Roeg and starring Amanda Donohoe and Oliver Reed.[2] The screenplay was by Allan Scott, adapted from the eponymous 1984 book 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.