Six Days Seven Nights (1998)

reviewed by
David Sunga

SIX DAYS SEVEN NIGHTS (1998)

Rating: 2.5 stars (out of 4.0)
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Key to rating system:
2.0 stars - Debatable
2.5 stars - Some people may like it
3.0 stars - I liked it
3.5 stars - I am biased in favor of the movie
4.0 stars - I felt the movie's impact personally or it stood out
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A Movie Review by David Sunga

Directed by: Ivan Reitman

Written by: Michael Browning

Starring: Harrison Ford, Harrison Ford, David Schwimmer, Jacqueline Obradors

Ingredients: Boyish old island rascal, young female magazine exec, true love

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, a spunky, career-oriented gal named Robin (Anne Heche) and her nerdy boyfriend Frank (David Schwimmer), decide to take a vacation to a remote tropical island in French Polynesia. Harrison Ford plays Quinn, a divorced exec who has gotten rid of his business and now lives a simple life as an island bush pilot.

When a business emergency requires that Robin fly off the island, she hires Quinn, but the two get stranded alone on a deserted island when their plane is damaged in flight. To make matters worse, they are attacked by pirates. On the bright side, they are falling in love.

Can a 56-year-old islander and a 28-year-old yuppie get along, much less fall in love?

Opinion: Usually in the summer, we expect to see a Harrison Ford adventure movie. But SIX DAYS, SEVEN NIGHTS is not an adventure movie; it's a fluffy, lighthearted, romantic comedy reminiscent of camping.

Imagine the kind of situations you'd put in a comedy involving two people on a funny camping trip: running around lost with maps in hand; equipment that doesn't work; bad luck weather; a situation involving a snake; grass skirts from GILLIGAN'S ISLAND; falling from great heights and plopping down safely in water. It's all there in SIX DAYS, SEVEN NIGHTS. The movie even throws in a lost World War II plane. While not meant to be realistic or even remotely original, it's all an excuse to show how a man and a woman might quibble and argue their way into falling in love.

So the only important question is, do Harrison Ford and Anne Heche have the chemistry for it? He's country; she's city. He's island; she's mainland. He's laid back; she's a go getter. He's 56; she's 28. Do opposites attract? In the movies they do. Ford and Heche deliver.

Reviewed July 1, 1998

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Six Days Seven Nights (1998)

reviewed byDavid Sunga

reviewed by
David Sunga