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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. |
| Country | United States of America |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $70,000,000 (estimated) |
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, is directed by Ivan Reitman. It stars Harrison Ford, Anne Heche, David Schwimmer, and Jacqueline Obradors. It was released on June 12, 1998 in the United States.
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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 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.
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.
After a narrow escape, Quinn and Robin eventually succeed in starting their airplane again and flying back to Makatea. The pirate captain fires the ship's weapon upwards in an attempt to shoot down the aircraft, leading to the shot missing and coming back down, destroying the ship. Robin breaks off her engagement with Frank 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 rating1. It received an average review via metacritic, who scores it at 51 out of 100.2 Yahoo! Movies users give the film a C+.3 The film narrowly earned enough to surpass its estimated 70 million dollar budget, having pulled in $74,329,966, by October of 1998.4
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