Cast Away What Was in the FedEx Package That Tom Hanks Never Opens

Cast Away: What Was in the FedEx Package That Tom Hanks Never Opens?

Tom Hanks spends nearly the entirety of Cast Away with a single unopened FedEx package, but what was in there all along?

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Cast Away What Was in the FedEx Package That Tom Hanks Never Opens

Cast Away still sits as one of the best showcases of Tom Hank’s acting, with him carrying almost the entire film by himself. However, one mystery still lingers over the movie: what was in the FedEx package Hank’s character refused to open on the island? While there’s not much to go off of, there are still theories based on hints scattered throughout the film.

The movie opens with a FedEx van picking up a package from an artist’s ranch. The box has a winged logo, which is also on one of the packages that washes up on the island with Hanks’ character, Chuck Noland. Despite opening all other packages for resources, Chuck decides to keep this one package unopened. While Chuck may have seen the winged logo as some sign of staying alive, the package as a whole was a symbol of hope. By keeping it closed, it means he still believes he can one day get off the island and deliver it, but by opening it, it’s an acceptance that he’s never leaving.

The package stays with Chuck all the way to his arrival home, with him even painting the winged logo on his Porta-Potty sail as he finally sets out to sea. Once the box is finally delivered, the contents of the package are never seen. However, the third draft of the Cast Away script reveals there was another plan for this box: Chuck opens this mystery package, finding two bottles of salsa and a letter inside.

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Upon finding the letter, Chuck reads it aloud, saying, “You said our life was a prison. Dull. Boring. Empty. I can’t begin to tell you how much that hurt. I don’t want to lose you. I’m enclosing some salsa, the verde you like. Use it on your sticky rice and think of home. Then come home to me. We’ll find the spice in our lives again. Together. I love you always. Bettina.” While this is a moving moment for Chuck, this Bettina character actually ends up being the woman Chuck meets and follows at Cast Away’s end, donning the same winged logo on her truck.

Despite the salsa and letter not making it into the movie, there are other suggestions that the package had to do with Bettina’s failing marriage as the winged FedEx box she ships at the start of the movie is sent away and delivered to a man and woman. This man opens it and says, “It’s from my wife,” to the woman, suggesting Bettina’s husband is having an affair. Another hint of this occurs when Chuck delivers the package to the ranch. Part of the ranch’s name has been removed from the entrance, which was likely the name of Bettina’s cheating husband.

On the more comical side of things, while this answer to the package’s contents is “hopefully” not real, a 2003 FedEx commercial at the Super Bowl parodied Cast Away’s ending. In this commercial, Chuck delivers the package to a woman and asks what’s inside. The woman replies, “Just a satellite phone, GPS locator, fishing rod, water purifier and some seeds. Just silly stuff.” The scene ends on a defeated-looking Chuck, with the moment being both funny and rather depressing.

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No matter the contents of the package, what’s most important is the hope it provided Chuck. And with the package’s delivery eventually leading Chuck to meet Bettina, it seems like it was a much-needed good-luck charm all along.

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