Miss Cast Away
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| Directed by | Bryan Michael Stoller |
| Produced by | Jeff Assofsky Gloria Pryor Bryan Michael Stoller |
| Written by | Bryan Michael Stoller |
| Starring |
Eric Roberts Charlie Schlatter Brande Roderick Michael Jackson |
| Music by | Greg Edmonson |
| Cinematography | Bryan England |
| Edited by | Michael Murphy |
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Island Productions
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| Distributed by | Showcase Entertainment |
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Running time
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90 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2 million |
Miss Cast Away and the Island Girls (also known as Miss Cast Away and as Silly Movie 2 as titled for re-release in 2008) is a 2004 American parody anarchic comedy film written and directed by Bryan Michael Stoller, produced on a $2 million budget. It features Michael Jackson in his final scripted film performance.
A plane carrying beauty contestants crash lands on a deserted island. Captain Maximus Powers (Roberts) and co-pilot Mike Saunders (Schlatter) have to take care of their passengers, while avoiding the dangers of Jurassic Pork (a giant prehistoric pig) and a group of apes busy trying to relaunch Noah's Ark.
An R2D2-like droid projects an image of agent M.J. (Jackson) who has been assigned by the Vatican to manipulate the castaways for the Vatican's own purposes.
Director Bryan Michael Stoller was able to get famous actors, such as Jerry Lewis, Pat Morita, and Bernie Kopell to appear in cameo roles for the movie.
Michael Jackson's scenes were filmed on Neverland Ranch, where Jackson lived during that time.
Bryan Michael Stoller was given permission to shoot Michael Jackson's scenes at Neverland Ranch. He later said that while it was exciting to be given such a rare privilege, it presented its disruptions to the filming process at times. In an MTV interview, he said:
"It's his home. It's all normal to him that there's a train running around the property tooting its horn," the director recalled of a noisy interruption that appears among the DVD's bonus features. "[Another time] his staff brought us soup, so we were sipping soup and talking, and these two elephants walk by outside. Michael's continuing to sip his soup like a fly flew by, and I turn to Michael and look at him and he's not even acknowledging the elephants."
Miss Cast Away and the Island Girls was due to be released in theaters in the summer of 2004, but Jackson's legal problems during that time made the movie's distributors wary of releasing the movie. Director Stoller explained in a news release: "We've sort of had to put things on hold. It's a shame because Jackson has an amazing vision." The film's release date was also thrown into doubt due to worries of executives at 20th Century Fox that the title was too close to Tom Hanks' hit film Cast Away.
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