Six Days Seven Nights (1998)

Robin Monroe, a New York magazine editor, and the gruff pilot Quinn Harris must put aside their mutual dislike if they are to survive after crash landing on a deserted South Seas island.

Director:

Ivan Reitman

Writer:

Michael Browning

Stars:

Harrison Ford, Anne Heche, David Schwimmer

2 wins & 5 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
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 Bode	...	Tom Marlowe, Helicopter Pilot
Derek Basco	...	Ricky, Helicopter Crewman
Amy Sedaris	...	Robin's Secretary
Long Nguyen	...	Pirate
Jake Feagai	...	Pirate
John Koyama	...	Pirate

Storyline

Taking a romantic tropical island week off with her boyfriend, an ambitious, decisive New York girl agrees to help her magazine out by covering a story on a neighboring island. The only plane available is piloted by a laid-back heavy drinker with whom she shares a mutual dislike. But she has no choice and he can't refuse the money. When the plane crash-lands on an uninhabited island with little chance of rescue they both wish they had made other arrangements - at least to start with.

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Plot Keywords:

pilot | thunderstorm | female removes her clothes | floatplane | island | 

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Taglines:

After this week in paradise, they're going to need a vacation.

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Comedy | Romance

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for language, sensuality and brief violence

Did You Know?

Trivia

It's the same island where the movie King Kong (1976) was filmed.

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Goofs

Robin is wearing a long white dress when they crash. She changes into floral shorts and a tank shirt when she and Quinn go looking for fresh water. After he gets the snake out of her pants in the water, they cut to next scene where they are back to the beach where the plane is. Robin is looking for fresh clothes in her suitcase and the shorts and tank shirt she was just wearing (which had gotten dirty and wet) are in her suitcase folded and clean, and Robin is changing out of the white dress she had already changed out of.

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Quotes

Robin Monroe: You're here.
Quinn Harris: I decided my life is too simple, I wanna complicate the hell out of it.

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Crazy Credits

Film title logo at the very end of the end credits

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Alternate Versions

After 9/11/01, the USA network edited the dialogue poorly so that when Anne Heche originally said, "I've flown with you twice, you've crashed half the time," she now says, "I've flown with you twice, you've FLOWN half the time."

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Connections

Featured in At the Movies: Six Days, Seven Nights/Can't Hardly Wait/Cousin Bette/Mr. Jealousy/High Art (1998)

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Soundtracks

No Woman No Cry
Written by Vincent Ford
Performed by Bob Marley
Courtesy of Island Records, Inc.

User Reviews

fails the litmus test

The litmus test is -- if [big star] weren't in this film, could it be a TV movie? Alas, the answer is yes. Though very entertaining with good performances, how Six Days Seven Nights made it to the big screen eludes me. It is not original and doesn't have the kind of script one demands of a feature film. I was just glad I didn't pay $8.50 or more to see it in the theater - but it will do well in video, where it should have gone directly in the first place.

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English German

Release Date:

12 June 1998 (USA)

Also Known As:

Six Days Seven Nights

Filming Locations:

New York City, New York, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$70,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$16,485,276, 14 June 1998

Gross USA:

$74,339,294

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$164,839,294

Company Credits

Production Co:

Caravan Pictures, Northern Lights Entertainment, Roger Birnbaum Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

102 min

Sound Mix:

DTS Dolby Digital SDDS

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.39 : 1