Miss Cast Away and the Island Girls (2004) on Netflix
A flight of beauty pageant contestants comes down on an island. Captain Maximus Powers and co-pilot Mike Saunders look after the women. A giant prehistoric pig and apes also live there.
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Captain Maximus Powers and co-pilot Mike Saunders are at the controls of a flight full of beauty pageant contestants when it goes down on an island. Julie and women traveling as Miss Spain, Miss Texas, Miss Delaware and Miss Iowa are among those aboard. The two men take the women under their care. A giant prehistoric pig called Jurassic Pork is at large, and a band of apes is at work relaunching Noah's Ark. Agent M.J. answers to the Vatican, which wants the castaways manipulated for its own ends.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Miss Cast Away and the Island Girls (2004)
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- Bryan Michael Stoller was given permission to shoot Michael Jackson's scenes for the film at Jackson's Neverland Ranch, a privilege he said caused disruptions to filming, including a train tooting its horn around the property.
- Michael Jackson's staff brought the crew soup, and while they sat sipping and talking, two elephants walked past outside; Jackson kept sipping as if a fly had gone by and never acknowledged the animals.
- Miss Cast Away and the Island Girls was due in theaters in summer 2004, but Michael Jackson's legal problems made distributors wary and the release was put on hold, director Stoller said; 20th Century Fox also feared the title was too close to Tom Hanks' Cast Away.
- Miss Cast Away and the Island Girls features Michael Jackson in his final scripted film performance before his death in 2009, playing a character sent by the Vatican to manipulate the castaways.
