Six Days Seven Nights Information

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 and Anne Heche (in her first starring role). It was released on June 12, 1998.

Plot

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 to Makatea is in a small dilapidated aircraft (DHC-2 Beaver) piloted by middle-aged American Quinn Harris (Harrison Ford). They are accompanied by Quinn's girlfriend and co-pilot Angelica (Jacqueline Obradors).

On their first night on the island, Quinn makes a move on Robin which she rejects as Frank appears. Later that night, Frank proposes to her and she happily accepts resulting in their engagement.

The next morning 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 them to crash-land on a deserted island. Robin is completely distraught that they are the only ones on the island with no communication, no food and no shelter and may be like this for a long time. Initially believing they are on a peninsula rather than an island, they try to find the non existent connection to the mainland. Then believing they are on a different island, they climb a mountain to disable a beacon Quinn believes to be there. But they are unsuccessful as they are on the wrong island. The air-sea rescue team, accompanied by Angelica and Frank, try to find Quinn and Robin, but are unable to do so. Fighting for survival on the island, Quinn and Robin inadvertently become witnesses to modern-day piracy. The pirates discover this and chase Quinn and Robin.

Meanwhile, Angelica and Frank are forging their own relationship. On a night while drunk and thinking that Robin is dead, Frank sleeps with Angelica after she seduces him by taking off her clothes in front of him.

The vast majority of the film deals with the adventures (often comic in nature) of Quinn and Robin as they try to escape the island, evade the pirates, survive in the island's jungle wilderness, and repair Quinn's plane so it can take off. In the process, Quinn and Robin fall in love, despite their initial dislike towards one another.

After evading the pirates several times, Robin and Quinn are finally discovered. After a narrow escape, Quinn and Robin eventually succeed in getting the plane airworthy again and they fly back to Makatea, just in time for their funerals. Frank is very happy to see Robin alive but is disgusted at himself for sleeping with Angelica and not being able to tell Robin about it. After their arrival, Robin goes to the hospital where Quinn is recovering and tells him about her feelings but he rejects her saying that due to their professional and personal lives, they can't be together. Robin then decides to go back to New York with Frank but at the airport finds she unable to do so. Frank finally tells her about sleeping with Angelica and she tells him about her feelings for Quinn. They decide they aren't in love and she gives him back the engagement ring.

Meanwhile, Quinn has had a change of heart and rushes to the airport, but is too late to stop the plane. He then encounters Robin getting out of an airplane, having stopped the flight telling the crew that she just couldn't go. He walks up to her and finally reciprocates her feelings for him. The movie ends with Quinn and Robin embracing and kissing each other.

Cast

• Harrison Ford - Quinn Harris
• Anne Heche - Robin Monroe
• David Schwimmer - Frank Martin
• Jacqueline Obradors - Angelica
• Temuera Morrison - Jager
• Allison Janney - Marjorie, Robin's Boss
• Douglas Weston - Philippe Sinclair, Resort Manager
• Cliff Curtis - Kip
• Danny Trejo - Pierce
• Ben Bodé - Tom Marlowe, Helicopter Pilot
• Derek Basco - Ricky, Helicopter Crewman
• Amy Sedaris - Robin's Secretary

Production

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 N? 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.

A licensed pilot, Harrison Ford was required (for insurance purposes) to satisfy additional flying certification requirements before filming aerial scenes of the Beaver airplane with himself as the actual pilot in command with other members of the cast aboard.

Reception

Critical response

The film received generally mixed reviews. The film holds 36% positive reviews at review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 39 reviews. It holds a score of 51% on Metacritic based on reviews from 23 critics. Yahoo! Movies users give the film a C+.

Box office

The film's revenue exceeded its $70 million production budget in the United States earning $74,329,966, and with strong international sales totaling $90,509,328, Six Days Seven Nights ended its theatrical run with a worldwide total of $164,839,294.