Robin Monroe and her fiancé Frank Martin are on a South Seas vacation when she's called away on business. She buys a flight from Quinn Harris, a rough-around-the-edges pilot, but they crash on a deserted island. There, they discover danger and romance while they endure the elements and each other's company. 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. Six Days Seven Nights is another one of the many movies out there that makes no pretensions as to containing anything special or different from the others. Ivan Reitman has created a niche in telling the Hollywood story, he knows the deal. You get attractive leads. You make a situation where they are put on an island and through urgency, they have to work together. It's all very standard stuff. But Reitman fills in whatever void he can with comedy and it's purely hit-and-miss from how you feel about it.<br/><br/>Robin, recently engaged and on vacation, seeks the help of Quinn, who seeks solitude and the simple life after a world of hurt. Quinn flew her to their vacation spot, but for several hundred more dollars, she enlists his help to fly her to Tahiti for a quick assignment her job asks of her. A storm downs them on a remote island and they're stuck with each other.<br/><br/>How Ford and Heche work on screen is so important for a film that commands it, but the story is so by-the-numbers, you may find yourself wondering when the couple will just cut to the chase and get off the island. The more interesting side-story, with Angelica and Frank, is played pleasantly well. But the whole story is just too cheesy sometimes. That fickle moral of love and doing what's best, once again, is played so unrealistically, yet so obvious. Ford and Heche are stranded on remote Pacific island and face various dangers while Schwimmer and Obradors party and fret. Never entirely comfortable as either comedy or drama. Beautiful scenery (including Obradors) compensates for awkwardness in many scenes between the leads. A movie I never really thought I liked, it often finds its way onto my screen. 8/10 on scenery alone 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.
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