STARRING
Harrison Ford
Anne Heche
David Schwimmer
DIRECTOR
Ivan Reitman
YEAR - 1998
LENGTH
101 Minutes
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Harrison Ford usually takes on more dramatic roles and rightly so, he's good at them. However, this movie shows that he's also very good at comedy. Maybe it was the teaming of Ford and Heche but whatever it was, it worked. The magic was there. Given two other actors playing the lead roles, I'm not sure if the script alone could have pulled it off.
Anne Heche is Robin Monroe, the Assistant Editor of "Dazzle" magazine in New York. She's loud, opinionated and has a go get it attitude on life. However, at the same time we get to see that she is in fact very feminine and vulnerable. David Schwimmer is her boyfriend Frank Martin. What I particularly liked about this movie was the fact that it didn't spend half an hour or more introducing you to the characters. Sometimes I find that movies, like books tend to give you more information than you really need to know. Books, which you can read at your own leisure can carry this off. However under the restraints of time limits, some movies forgo good content and instead give you in-depth views of characters when in fact they would be better off spending a bit more time on the actual content of the movie.
Six Days Seven Nights gets straight to the point. Frank produces a couple of tickets for a dream vacation. After arriving at the islands they need to take a quick charter flight to the actual island they will be vacationing on. Enter Harrison Ford as Quinn Harris, a charter pilot who has given up big time flying and is now happy to fly his own plane back and forth around the islands of the South Pacific. He has left behind the big cities for the idyllic island lifestyle. Not wanting to fly in his rather old looking plane but with no other choice, Frank and Robin use Quinn's service. Accompanying them on the flight is Quinn's occasional girlfriend/bed partner.
That night after dinner, Frank proposes to Robin, she accepts and of course she gets the inevitable phone call from her Editor to tell her she has to leave for about 15 hours to supervise a photoshoot on an island not far away. Much to Franks distress she goes, having barterd with Quinn to the sum of $700 to fly her out.
Bad weather erupts, a very funny scene with some tranquilisers takes place and what do you know...they crash land and are now on a deserted island with only one flare to summon help.
As with most movies, they start of not being able to stand one another, circumstances evolve (mainly in the shape of pirates...and nasty ones at that) and they realise that there is indeed a sexual attraction between them. I won't go any further into the plot but suffice to say a lot of tension builds up (of the sexual type) and it now becomes a plot of "will they or won't they?"
Meanwhile back at the ranch (or should I say hotel) Frank and Quinns' lady friend are going out of their minds with worry and are doing all they can to search for the lost twosome.
There are some very funny scenes in this movie. Both Ford and Heche have a magnetism that draws you in. This movie is light with a few heavy bits thrown in.
If you like movies where you don't have to do too much thinking, where you can just sit back, laugh a bit, get caught up in the will they won't they scenario, watch a bit of action and basically just feel good...this is the movie for you.
Review by Lynn (Dream Weaver) - lmccorry@space.net.au
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Ford and Heche
Some of Ford's
facial expressions are truly funny
What will they do?
Maybe they don't
dislike each other as much as they first thought...
Stranded
Being stranded on a
desert island is not always as romantic as it sounds
The fiancée and the
girlfriend...
fretting...well for
a while...