| Six Days Seven Nights | |
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| Directed by | Ivan Reitman |
| Produced by | Ivan Reitman Roger Birnbaum |
| Written by | Michael Browning |
| Starring | Harrison Ford Anne Heche David Schwimmer Jacqueline Obradors |
| Music by | Randy Edelman Taj Mahal |
| Cinematography | Michael Chapman |
| Editing by | Wendy Greene Bricmont Sheldon Kahn |
| Studio | Caravan Pictures Northern Lights Entertainment Roger Birnbaum Productions |
| Distributed by | Touchstone Pictures |
| Release date(s) | June 12, 1998 |
| Running time | 98 minutes |
| Country | United States of America |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $70,000,000 (estimated) |
| Box office | $164,839,294 |
Six Days Seven Nights is a 1998 adventure film. The screenplay was written by Michael Browning. The movie, filmed on location in Kauai, is directed by Ivan Reitman. It stars Harrison Ford, Anne Heche, David Schwimmer, Jacqueline Obradors, and Temuera Morrison. It was released on June 12, 1998.
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Robin Monroe (Anne Heche), a New York journalist working for Dazzle, a fashion magazine, is invited by her boyfriend Frank (David Schwimmer) to spend a week holiday with him on the island paradise of Makatea in the South Pacific. The final leg of their journey, the couple fly to Makatea in a small dilapidated aircraft (DHC-2 Beaver) piloted by middle-aged American Quinn Harris (Harrison Ford) and accompanied by his girlfriend, Angelica (Jacqueline Obradors).
Frank has told Robin that they are doing this because he "wants to increase the romance in our relationship."
Thus romance is postponed as Robin, a workaholic, is called away to Tahiti by her boss, to supervise a fashion event. She hires Quinn to fly her there, but an unexpected thunderstorm forces him to crash-land them on a deserted island.
Fighting for survival on the island, Quinn and Robin inadvertently become witnesses to modern-day piracy.
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 and Frank are forging their own relationship.
After a narrow escape, Quinn and Robin eventually succeed in getting their plane airworthy again and they fly back to Makatea, where decisions await them.
Quinn and Robin reveal their feelings for each other after Frank and Robin break up. The movie ends with Quinn and Robin embracing and kissing each other.
Outside the obvious studio shots, the films external scenes were shot mainly in and around Kauai in the Hawaiian Islands. The high altitude scenes and jump scene were all filmed in the Nā Pali Coast State Park. The building that served as the airport terminal is still sitting in a field in Aliomanu Estates.
The aerial scene where the couple are first arriving at the resort island, and the camera is looking down at it as they fly over some overwater bungalows, was actually a shot of the Sofitel Resort on Huahine, French Polynesia.
The film received generally mixed reviews. Currently, the film received only 38% positive reviews in Rotten Tomatoes[1] and received an average rating on Metacritic, which gives it a score of 51 out of 100.[2] Yahoo! Movies users give the film a C+.[3]
The film's revenue narrowly exceeded its 70 million dollar budget in the United States having generated $74,329,966, however thanks to strong international sales totaling $90,509,328, Six Days Seven Nights ended its theatrical run with a worldwide total of $164,839,294.
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