Tightly wound assistant magazine editor Robin Monroe (Anne Heche) is surprised by her boyfriend, Frank Martin (David Schwimmer), with a romantic getaway to the South Pacific island Makatea for six days and seven nights. Following Frank's marriage proposal to Robin which she accepts, she finds herself pressured by her boss, Marjorie (Allison Janney), to make a flyover to Tahiti to capture some shots for the magazine due to the unavailability of anyone else. Robin reluctantly accepts and enlists grizzled charter pilot Quinn Harris (Harrison Ford) to fly her to Tahiti but an unexpected storm causes their plane to crash on a deserted island with lightning having shorted out the emergency beacon and radio. Now Quinn and Robin must survive the elements (and each other) while they either await rescue or find it, but over time come to love each other.
Initially acquired by Joe Roth's Caravan Pictures as a potential vehicle for Julia Roberts, Roberts dropped out of the movie and soon the film became tailored for Anne Heche and Harrison Ford. The movie is noted for the media and tabloid frenzy resulting from Heche's public appearance with then partner Ellen DeGeneres that was timed within a day of her getting cast and lead to Disney trying to drop her from the film with only the influence of director Ivan Reitman and Co-star Harrison Ford dissuading the company from doing so. Six Days, Seven Nights was supposed to be a positioning for Anne Heche as leading actress, and while it did well enough the media frenzy had a negative effect on Heche's career that never saw her headline any major releases aside from Return to Paradise. All these years later, Six Days, Seven Nights doesn't really have much going on besides the history surrounding it, because the movie itself is about as bare basics as this kind of formula rom-com can get.
I will say the cast are all quite charming with Harrison Ford, Anne Heche, David Schwimmer, and Jacqueline Obradors having some solid scenes and performances in the movie especially in the backhalf where the lion's share of biggest laughs are scored from Schwimmer's pitch perfect comic timing with one joke about what happens after a funeral giving me a solid belly laugh. Aside from a few isolated scenes there's really not much else to this movie as it spends a lot of time in the first half with Heche and Ford stuck on this beautiful but not very interesting island with neither the hazards they encounter nor the dialogue really going that much further above what you could see on TV of the era. These romances in exotic locales that you've seen with the likes of The African Queen or Romancing the Stone have had the bar set high for them and they need either really sharp dialogue or tense thrilling adventure sequences to stand out from what's a very crowded field and aside from a few decent beats involving some pirates or some of Schwimmer's scenes you don't get much of that. The movie works well enough, but not much more than that.
Six Days, Seven Nights is the definition of a "time killer", it does it's job for 90 minutes, keeps you engaged just enough and then you barely think about within a few hours of seeing it. It's watchable and there's a few scenes that are good, but most of the movie is just content to do the bare basics with not much beyond that.
Initially acquired by Joe Roth's Caravan Pictures as a potential vehicle for Julia Roberts, Roberts dropped out of the movie and soon the film became tailored for Anne Heche and Harrison Ford. The movie is noted for the media and tabloid frenzy resulting from Heche's public appearance with then partner Ellen DeGeneres that was timed within a day of her getting cast and lead to Disney trying to drop her from the film with only the influence of director Ivan Reitman and Co-star Harrison Ford dissuading the company from doing so. Six Days, Seven Nights was supposed to be a positioning for Anne Heche as leading actress, and while it did well enough the media frenzy had a negative effect on Heche's career that never saw her headline any major releases aside from Return to Paradise. All these years later, Six Days, Seven Nights doesn't really have much going on besides the history surrounding it, because the movie itself is about as bare basics as this kind of formula rom-com can get.
I will say the cast are all quite charming with Harrison Ford, Anne Heche, David Schwimmer, and Jacqueline Obradors having some solid scenes and performances in the movie especially in the backhalf where the lion's share of biggest laughs are scored from Schwimmer's pitch perfect comic timing with one joke about what happens after a funeral giving me a solid belly laugh. Aside from a few isolated scenes there's really not much else to this movie as it spends a lot of time in the first half with Heche and Ford stuck on this beautiful but not very interesting island with neither the hazards they encounter nor the dialogue really going that much further above what you could see on TV of the era. These romances in exotic locales that you've seen with the likes of The African Queen or Romancing the Stone have had the bar set high for them and they need either really sharp dialogue or tense thrilling adventure sequences to stand out from what's a very crowded field and aside from a few decent beats involving some pirates or some of Schwimmer's scenes you don't get much of that. The movie works well enough, but not much more than that.
Six Days, Seven Nights is the definition of a "time killer", it does it's job for 90 minutes, keeps you engaged just enough and then you barely think about within a few hours of seeing it. It's watchable and there's a few scenes that are good, but most of the movie is just content to do the bare basics with not much beyond that.