Six Days Seven Nights
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| Six Days Seven Nights | |
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| Directed by | Ivan Reitman |
| Written by | Michael Browning |
| Starring | Harrison Ford Anne Heche David Schwimmer Jacqueline Obradors |
| Distributed by | [[]] |
| Release date(s) | 1998 |
| Running time | 101 min. |
| Language | English |
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Six Days Seven Nights (1998) is a romantic comedy interspersed with elements of the adventure film. The screenplay was written by Michael Browning. The movie, filmed on location in Kauai, was directed by Ivan Reitman. It starred Harrison Ford, Anne Heche, David Schwimmer, and Jacqueline Obradors.
Robin Monroe (Heche), a New York journalist working for Dazzle, a fashion magazine, is invited by her boyfriend Frank (Schwimmer) to spend a one-week holiday with him on the island paradise of Macatea in the South Pacific. For the final leg of their journey the couple have to make do with a small dilapidated aircraft (DHC-2 Beaver) piloted by a middle-aged American called Quinn Harris (Ford). A few hours after their arrival, Frank proposes to Robin.
But Robin is a workaholic who cannot say no when she gets a call from her boss asking her to drop over to Tahiti just for one night to supervise some fashion event. She hires Quinn to fly her there, but an unexpected thunderstorm forces the plane into a crash-landing on a deserted island (Part of a cross cutting sequence in which the forced landing is juxtaposed with a native dance performed for tourists and watched by Frank back at the hotel).
Heche in Six Days Seven Nights
Fighting for survival on the island, Quinn and Robin inadvertently become witnesses to modern-day pirates killing some of their rivals and throwing their bodies into the sea.
The vast majority of the film deals with the adventures (often comic in nature) of Quinn and Robin as they try to evade the pirates and survive in the island's jungle wilderness; in the process, Quinn and Robin fall in love, despite their initial dislike toward one another.
After a narrow escape, Quinn and Robin eventually succeed in starting their airplane again and flying back to Macatea.
Meanwhile, Angelica (Obradors), a friend of Quinn's, has seduced Frank. Unable to hide his guilty conscience, Frank agrees when Robin breaks off their engagement in order to start a new life with Quinn.
Critics have pointed out certain parallels between Ford and Heche as a bickering couple and Bogart and Hepburn in The African Queen.
Heche announced that she was a lesbian shortly after being cast: a decision named by the magazine Total Film as the 10th "dumbest decision in movie history", given the mainly heterosexual target audience for the romantic comedy.
[edit] Trivia
The engines on the Aloha Airlines airplanes are the wrong type for a flight from Tahiti to Honolulu. Those engines are used for interisland flights. The engines used for Honolulu-South Pacific flights are CFM 56-7s.
