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1997 Jeep Cherokee 4.0 Limited [XJ]

1997 Jeep Cherokee [XJ] in Cast Away, Movie, 2000

Class: Cars, Off-road / SUV — Model origin:

1997 Jeep Cherokee 4.0 Limited [XJ]

00:17:45 Vehicle used by a character or in a car chase

Comments about this vehicle

Author	Message
antp ◊ 2004-11-05 11:57	00-17-45 Voiture du personnage principal. On la voit au début et à la fin.
cieraguy ◊ 2006-08-29 23:36	It's interesting to note that the beginning of the story takes place in 1995. That version of the Cherokee (which is shown in the above picture which supposedly takes place in 1995) wouldn't be around until 1997
tonkatracker ◊ 2006-09-13 02:22	1997 Jeep Cherokee [XJ]
truckfan ◊ 2006-11-13 00:52	The people who made this movie goofed on this car
Kowalski5599 ◊ 2010-09-30 21:58	Yeah, it's an anachronism. This generation, the post face-lifted Jeep Cherokee XJ. Those factory rims didn't come along until 1999 I believe. Still a nice vehicle though, although their dependability in during their last years wasn't as good as Chrysler interfered with too many of the components. Too bad Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) refers to it as a 'car'. It's a Jeep.
Mitchman ◊ 2012-02-22 03:58	I love this movie but it drives me crazy that it's not the right model year. How hard could it have been to look up?
Tuneman1984 ◊ 2013-01-25 14:55	Me too Mitchman. I was 16 when I saw that in theaters and it kept bugging me. The only way it could've made sense was if he crashed four years prior to the date of the movie, which would make it '96 and possible that he had an early '97 model (incorrect rims aside). But they specifically set the beginning in 1995 so I knew it was out of place.
Gamer ◊ 2013-05-10 23:19	When he stops to deliver the package to Bettina, it turns silver and into an older model, like this one: http://carphotos.cardomain.com/ride_images/4/514/1549/38783274001_large.jpg -- Last edit: 2013-05-10 23:19:26
I-Denev ◊ 2014-04-07 23:50
bwalk97 ◊ 2016-01-18 07:00	97-01
Emstreeter ◊ 2021-07-09 08:26	Does anyone wonder if insurance was kept on this Jeep through all the years? If not, i feel like his (ex) wife was setting him up for failure as soon as poor Tom Hanks landed on dry land.
Kowalski5599 ◊ 2021-10-03 19:17	emstreeter wrote Does anyone wonder if insurance was kept on this Jeep through all the years? If not, i feel like his (ex) wife was setting him up for failure as soon as poor Tom Hanks landed on dry land. Not sure of the significance of the question, but she kept the vehicle and actively drove it, as evidenced by the removal of the child's seat before he drives off.
Gamer ◊ 2021-10-03 19:20	1999 for the roofrack running half the length.
Kowalski5599 ◊ 2023-05-20 01:26	Gamer wrote 1999 for the roofrack running half the length. Roof racks ran half length on all of the 1997-2001 XJ equipped with a sunroof, which this one has.
cush77 ◊ 2023-12-23 16:30	Greatest real suv ever. Recently donated my 1998 with 503,365 hard miles on her. I will always miss that death and taxes straight 6 torque and reliability. 22 years of hellish driving conditions and never once did she stumble. My wife hated that I kept it until a giant snow storm hit us in Chicago back in 2011 and her Lexus GX got stuck in a snowbank and when I came in the tape deck equipped XJ she would never even move in the driveway it then became great in her eyes. Even the Toyota 2019 4runner I drive today won't last as long as the xj did, who knows?
Kowalski5599 ◊ 2024-04-25 22:01	cush77 wrote Greatest real suv ever. Recently donated my 1998 with 503,365 hard miles on her. I will always miss that death and taxes straight 6 torque and reliability. 22 years of hellish driving conditions and never once did she stumble. My wife hated that I kept it until a giant snow storm hit us in Chicago back in 2011 and her Lexus GX got stuck in a snowbank and when I came in the tape deck equipped XJ she would never even move in the driveway it then became great in her eyes. Even the Toyota 2019 4runner I drive today won't last as long as the xj did, who knows? I miss my '98 too. I only had it a few years as by the time I was old enough to own a vehicle, many were rotten in my region. But it was an amazing vehicle, I wish I had found my career a little earlier so maybe I could've saved it. When you say "donate" do you mean, it went to scrap? Or like to a school? That's a great story about how your wife's opinion of it changed. The XJ is a workhorse, of which we will never see the likes of again now that vehicles are glorified iPods.
Kowalski5599 ◊ 2025-08-16 07:36	Watching again on blu-ray on the big screen. The Cherokee seen in the first half of the movie has roof rack rails that begin above the a-pillar, the cross bar is slid back to be near the b pillar, but the rails extend all the way to the front. This Cherokee also does NOT have a sun roof, as when we are inside during the gift exchange, we can see the full-length overhead console. The Cherokee used in the 1995 scenes is more that dark blue factory color Jeep used, but we only see it at night. At the end of the movie it's green, this is obviously a different Cherokee as the roof rails only extend to the b-pillar and it IS now equipped with a sun roof. There were definitely multiple Cherokees used. The fit and finish on that sun roof is pretty horrendous if you pause the blu-ray and look at it. The shot of Helen Hunt in the passenger seat at the end of the movie, you can see the shiny bare steel near her sunvisor, indicating they likely removed and did not re-install the cloth headliner. This likely is not be an ASC sunroof Cherokee but one cut in by the production - which might make sense because Eddie Voelker worked on this, the same guy who got all the Plymouth Fury vehicles for John Carpenter's Christine - so maybe the sun roof was his contribution to this film. Either way, I want to find out what happened to the Cherokees used in Cast Away. -- Last edit: 2025-08-16 07:45:27

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