- Six Days Seven Nights
Infobox Film
name = Six Days Seven Nights
caption = original film poster
director =Ivan Reitman
producer =
writer =Michael Browning
starring =Harrison Ford Anne Heche David Schwimmer Jacqueline Obradors
music =Randy Edelman Taj Mahal
cinematography =
editing =
distributor =Touchstone Pictures
released =June 12 ,1998
runtime = 101 min.
country =United States of America
awards =
language = English
budget = $70,000,000 (estimated)
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imdb_id = 0120828"Six Days Seven Nights" is a 1998
romantic comedy film interspersed with elements of the adventure film. Thescreenplay was written byMichael Browning . The movie, filmed on location inKauai , is directed byIvan Reitman . It starsHarrison Ford ,Anne Heche ,David Schwimmer , andJacqueline Obradors . It was released onJune 12 , 1998 in the United States.Plot
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 toTahiti 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 across cutting sequence in which the forced landing is juxtaposed with a native dance performed for tourists and watched by Frank back at thehotel ).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 fallen in love.
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.
Reception
The film received generally mixed reviews. Currently, the film holds a 38 percent rating on rottentomatoes.com, indicating a rotten rating [ [http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/six_days_seven_nights/ Six Days, Seven Nights Rottentomatoes.com] ] . It received an average review via metacritic, who scores it at 51 out of 100. [ [http://www.metacritic.com/video/titles/sixdayssevennights?q=Six%20Days,%20Seven%20Nights Metacritic - Six Days, Seven Nights (1998)] ] Yahoo! Movies users give the film a C+. [ [http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1800024594/info Six Days, Seven Nights (1998) Movie Info - Yahoo! Movies] ] The film narrowly earned enough to surpass its estimated 70 million dollar budget, having pulled in $74,329,966, by October of 1998. [ [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120828/business Six Days, Seven Nights (1998) - Box Office/Business IMDB] ]
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