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 |
| Music by | Randy Edelman Taj Mahal |
| Distributed by | Touchstone Pictures |
| Release date(s) | June 12, 1998 |
| Running time | 101 min. |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $70,000,000 (estimated) |
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Six Days Seven Nights is a 1998 romantic comedy film 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.
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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 Makatea 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.
Robin, however, is a workaholic and cannot say no when she gets a call from her boss asking her to go to Tahiti just for one night to supervise a 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).
Fighting for survival on the island, Quinn and Robin inadvertently become witnesses to modern-day pirates killing the owner of a yacht and throwing his body 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 towards one another.
Meanwhile, Angelica (Obradors), a friend of Quinn's, has seduced Frank and they have sex and fall in love. Unable to hide his guilt over having slept with Angelica.
After a narrow escape, Quinn and Robin eventually succeed in starting their airplane again and flying back to Makatea Frank is relieved when Robin breaks off their engagement in order to start a new life with Quinn.
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