Six Days, Seven Nights

1998 Action/Adventure

Ivan Reitman directed this romantic comedy-adventure that opens in New York where fast-paced magazine associate editor Robin Monroe (Anne Heche) and her boyfriend, Frank (David Schwimmer), leave for a week's vacation on a remote island. They've already been together for three years, so when Frank asks her to marry him, she says yes. For a one-day Tahiti photo shoot, Robin engages the services of South Pacific cargo pilot Quinn Harris (Harrison Ford). Robin and Quinn head off to do the shoot, but a squall forces Quinn to land his DeHavilland Beaver on the beach of a remote, unknown island. With broken landing gear, they're trapped there. Search parties set forth. Robin and Quinn cope with each other. Survival skills surface. Sexual tensions escalate. Meanwhile, back at the hotel, Frank and Quinn's girlfriend, Angelica (Jacqueline Obradors), compare concerns at the hotel bar. Several days later, the search is called off. Quinn and Robin are left to their own devices, including removing pontoons from a convenient Japanese war plane and attempting a take off. Filmed on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. more..

Director: Ivan Reitman

Starring: Harrison Ford, Anne Heche,David Schwimmer, Jacqueline Obradors, Temuera Morrison

Reviews

  • Ms. Heche and Mr. Ford make an appealing, wisecracking team, and they look comfortable with the rugged demands of their roles.

    Elvis Mitchell - The New York Times

    19 January 2013

  • Romantic comedies don't get more formulaic than this bouncing-screwball valentine, but then they don't get much more delightful, either.

    Rita Kempley - The Washington Post

    19 January 2013

  • It's the kind of movie that provides diversion for the idle channel-surfer but isn't worth a trip to the theater. A lot of it seems cobbled together out of spare parts.

    Roger Ebert - The Chicago Sun-Times

    19 January 2013

  • Glorious picture-postcard photography.

    Mike Clark - USA Today

    19 January 2013

  • An acceptable star vehicle, no better or worse than it should be, a well-worn standard diversion that gets the job done without eliciting either howls of fury or paroxysms of delight.

    Kenneth Turan - Los Angeles Times

    19 January 2013

Awards

  • Randy Edelman

    BMI Film & TV Awards (1999)

  • Favorite Actor - Comedy/Romance

    Blockbuster Entertainment Awards (1999)