Synopsis
In the South Pacific island of Makatea, career-driven magazine editor Robin Monroe is on a week-long vacation getaway with her boyfriend, Frank Martin. An emergency work assignment in neighboring Tahiti requires Robin to hire the cantankerous pilot Quinn Harris who had flown them to Makatea on a small transport plane. While flying, a powerful storm forces Quinn to make an emergency landing on a nearby deserted island. The dissimilar pair avoid each other at first, until they're forced to team up to escape from the island -- and some pirates who want their heads.
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Cast
- Anne HecheRobin Monroe
- Harrison FordQuinn Harris
- David SchwimmerFrank Martin
- Jacqueline ObradorsAngelica
- Temuera MorrisonJager
- Allison JanneyMarjorie
- Cliff CurtisKip
- Danny TrejoPierce
- Kerry RossallYacht Owner
- Douglas WestonPhilippe Sinclair, Resort Manager
- 70
The New York Times
Ms. Heche and Mr. Ford make an appealing, wisecracking team, and they look comfortable with the rugged demands of their roles. - 70
Salon
Part of what's so entertaining about Six Days, Seven Nights is the way Reitman happily mixes all the conventions of the stranded-on-an-island motif -- unpleasant encounters with creepy-crawly nature, the building of stuff out of bamboo and found objects, the first kiss in paradise. - 70
Chicago Reader
Mostly it's an overearnest examination of emotional and sexual fidelity. - 63
Chicago Sun-Times
It's the kind of movie that provides diversion for the idle channel-surfer but isn't worth a trip to the theater. A lot of it seems cobbled together out of spare parts. - 63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
This fluffy escape flick, directed by Ivan Reitman, is a TV sitcom plot grafted onto a travel brochure. - 63
USA Today
Glorious picture-postcard photography. [10 July 1998, p.8E] - 50
The New Yorker
Aside from Heche, who is a quick, witty actress, the film seems to reside in a bizarre time warp of bad seventies comedy, complete with retrograde ethnic stereotypes and huge, jiggling breasts. - 50
ReelViews
All that's missing from Ivan Reitman's Six Days, Seven Nights is a plot with a moment's originality.