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Summary: Brilliant Heche, I want Harrison Ford's job!
Review: Enjoyable from start to finish, alas the DVD dos not last long enough.
Anne Heche is absolutely amazingly in her portrayal of a New Yorker cast adrift, because of a plane crash, with Harrison Ford her laconic pilot, no spring chicken, on a remote Pacific Island somewhere near Tahiti.
Both the characters spin a more than believable tale and one gets carried away in the fantasy of their developing attraction.
The supporting characters are ideal and the locale is everyone's dream. A simple plot with an happy ending, what more could one want of a romantic story?
Alas, there are no bonus scenes on the DVD, who cares? This movie stands by itself - great to watch, again and again.
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Summary: A popcorn and candy, couch potato kind of movie¿
Review: A fun, but kind of goofy movie. The story line is one that seems to thread through many movies now days - what am I doing here, how did I get this way, do I have to keep doing it, can I cut back to what's really important. But for the most part Six Days, Seven Nights is light hearted. Even when Ford and Heche, who don't like eachother much, are beset by a surprise storm, crash land on a deserted island and eventually chased down and captured by pirates, it'd hard to be too concerned for their welfare. The fact that Heche is newly engaged and that Ford owes no allegiance except to a bottle of booze adds a little twist, but they work through it.The acting is top-drawer and helps prop up the rather hollow plot - I'm not a comedy fan. But thankfully, most of the inane comedy lines are forced upon those poor souls outside the main story, and the story itself proceeds nicely enough to a creaky, but "feel good" ending. I've watched it a couple of time, which for a semi-comedy means I like it quite a lot.
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Summary: Caveat emptor
Review: There's a storm, an aircraft forced landing ( and Harry of course is in it ), a deserted island ( well, at least it's not a treasury island ), waterfalls and, oh yes, of course ( how could they not be there? ) there are some pirates too, and they're really mean...a typical Harry Ford movie...oh no, sorry, there are no extra terrestrals in this one!
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Summary: Wish there was a sequel!
Review: Just loved this movie! The acting between Heche and Ford was so good. The scenery was great and the music soundtrack just wonderful! It is so nice to see such a wonderful, entertaining movie. I could watch this many times and never grow tired of it.
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Summary: Wonderful story about Love
Review: In my mind, this is very nice story with beutiful actors. I had excellent tune for long time after looking the movie.
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Summary: Predictable, but still fun...
Review: "Six Days, Seven Nights" is a light, romantic, comedy adventure, that follows a familiar formula. A crusty older man, and a younger woman, who come from different worlds, are brought together by circumstances, and then something special "happens". Harrison Ford plays "Quinn Harris", a no frills free lance pilot operating his small plane between tropical islands in the South Pacific. Anne Heche is "Robin Monroe" a magazine writer from NY, on vacation with her fiancé Frank (David Schwimmer), on the island of Makatea. When she unexpectedly needs transportation to Tahiti to get an interview, she reluctantly hires Ford to fly her there. Running into bad weather, the plane is forced down, and crash lands on the beach of the proverbial "uncharted island". Surviving the crash, the pair begin the task of survival, getting on each other's nerves while exploring their lush surroundings. Much of this film was shot on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, and we are treated to some truly beautiful topical scenes. Pirates unexpectedly appear offshore, breaking their solitude and forcing them into a different kind of survival mode. Finding the wreckage of a plane in the jungle, gives Quinn the material he needs for a dangerous attempt at a return to civilization. The movie finishes in a predictable fashion, but could it ever be any other way? Logical or not, love will find a way, at least according to Hollywood. This formula works again, because of the charm and chemistry of the two stars. When this was released, it was already common knowledge that Heche and Ellen DeGeneres were a couple. This may influence how you view her performance. I found Anne Heche totally convincing, charming, and cute to boot. Heche's and Harrison's acting styles complement each other, and they really benefit from some very clever dialog, and the direction of Ivan Reitman. There is no denying that Ford (56 when this was made), is slowing down a bit, but though a bit grizzled, he still has the ability to take command of the screen, either with his physical presence, or his boyish charm. If a sappy romance between an older stud and an intelligent young woman doesn't turn you off, by all means give this a chance.
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Summary: Uninspired romantic movie
Review: Traditionally, a romantic story, or one that sweeps the audience away with Hollywood emotions, appears in the summer and is a boxoffice smash. Critics often give it their grudging approval. In the 1990s we have had Sleepless in Seattle, While You Were Sleeping, and My Best Friend's Wedding. Hope Floats and Six Days, Seven Nights were 1998's contenders. Both were reviewed poorly. They did okay at the ticket boxes, but comments I heard implied that they did so almost by default. Six Days, Seven Nights was the heavyweight entry. Harrison Ford returned to a romantic lead. Anne Heche got a chance to prove she could be a femme fatale. Ivan Reitman had directed many hits. Corporate giant Walt Disney was behind the project. The setting, a tropical paradise, seemed fool proof. Perhaps all the powerful players got complacent. A key element called a script seems to have been overlooked. There's a story line that tries to pass for a plot. I have a theory that people who like movies don't often go in with the attitude that that they won't enjoy the show. In fact, we want to be swept away and to be entertained. Unfortunately, we sometimes see holes too large ignore. These diminish our pleasure greatly. We may not be able to verbalize the experience, but we don't recommend the movie to our acquaintances. The best we can say - glumly - is that it was all right. Anne Heche plays a New York stereotype. She has a top management job on a woman's magazine. We never know exactly what it is she does there, just that she looks and acts successful. Her boyfriend is played by David Schwimmer, whose character is no better defined than hers. If she is a stereotype, he is a cartoon. He is the male of the species portrayed as barely domesticated. Left alone with any woman under sixty, he sees the situation only in a sexual way. That's just the way all guys are, we are told. Off they go to paradise. After arriving in Tahiti, they find that their scheduled chartered flight has been canceled. They are expected to fly in a leaky, broken down four seat plane, piloted by Harrison Ford's character. The implication is that air safety stops at America's borders. Ford brings along a beautiful native girl, who he says is the flight attendant. She isn't. He's just a guy, remember. They arrive at their destination. Reggae music plays until someone remembers that this is the South Pacific, not the Caribbean. Soon Heche's boss says she must go back to Tahiti on business. This gives the movie an excuse to maroon Heche and Ford on a deserted island. Only in the movies could an island so large, so lush and so close to Tahiti be uninhabited. If it looks like part of the Hawaiian Islands, it's because the movie was filmed there. This part is where the movie could have soared, but Heche's brittle, worldly character gives in far to soon to Ford's laid back, peaceful guy. There turns out not to be much to tame in this woman. Perhaps the film makers were trying to be politically correct, but in the old romantic comedies, the girl tamed the guy as often as he corralled her. They have an affair, while her boyfriend and his island girl do the same back at the resort. This, too, could have been clever and funny, but it's wasted here. Randy Edelman contributes one of the best film scores of 1998. He must have been inspired by what the movie should have been, not by what it is.
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Summary: One of Ford's better efforts
Review: Worth the purchase price. It's a movie you can watch over and over again without getting board. It's especially good to watch when one is snowed in.
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Summary: Finally, H. Ford with character
Review: This is one of my favorite movies. Ford is funny and does an excellent job portraying a carefree drunk, who also happens to be a top notch pilot. I love characters who are low key about being very good at something. I am always disappointed in Ford's wooden faced portrayals in just about all his other movies. In this one he has character. What happened? Did somebody let him act? Be himself? Heche is also great fun in this movie, and I love best the fact that her role is allowed and expected to pull her own weight in the story. I hate helpless females, and, through a combination of writing and, in large part, I suspect, her acting, her character is fun and admirable. I saw Heche again recently on TV. She really is a delight to watch. I'd love to see a sequel to this movie. Make that a "good" sequel....
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Summary: Not bad, could be better
Review: Harrison Ford (Air Force one, The Fugitive,Random Hearts) one of the best actors in American Cinema. Six Days, Seven Nights is a good movie if you took the idea of what if something happened and you need to go and live in the wilderness? now if you go to the description of WILDERNESS you should see what happened to Anthony Hopkins in The Edge. I think that there are some ideas behind this film like can we survive? but those ideas needs to be presented more clearly.
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