Prairie dogs are America's answer to the meerkat - small, sociable and exceptionally cute. This offbeat film narrated by Rob Brydon takes us to the Wild West where prairie dogs live in huge colonies known as 'towns'. Like meerkats, they are comical to watch, but there is a whole lot more to prairie dogs than just being cute - they can talk.
For 30 years Professor Con Slobodchikoff has been recording their calls in response to predators like coyotes, hawks and badgers. He believes he has discovered a language second only to humans in its complexity. It's a bold claim but is he right? Con has devised a series of cunning field experiments to help prove his point.
查克(汤姆•汉克斯 Tom Hanks饰)任职于美国联邦快递,他系统工程师的职业决定了他的生活忙碌、自律、充满时间紧迫感。而查克总能把一切工作都井井有序的安排在每天的日程里,时间就在他的控制之下。他无暇顾及的只是女朋友凯莉(海伦•亨特 Helen Hunt 饰)。
一场飞机失事改变了这一切。所有人都以为查克丧生于这场灾难中,然而事实上他活了下来,被困在一个荒无人烟的小岛上。荒岛上的生活就连吃喝都成问题,查克成为了现代鲁滨逊。但另一方面,他在这里却因为与大自然依存,与险境搏斗,与孤独作伴,与饥饿抗争,得到了以前从来没有领悟到的感受。当他回到现代社会时,人生有了新的开始。