Six Days Seven Nights
Short description
Six Days Seven Nights follows Quinn Harris, a pilot living a quiet life on the Polynesian island of Makatea, ferrying cargo in his aging plane. His routine is interrupted by Robin Monroe, an assistant editor at a New York magazine vacationing with her boyfriend, Frank Martin. When work calls her to Tahiti, she reluctantly hires Quinn to fly her there. A storm forces them down on a deserted island, and the mismatched pair must work together to survive, escape and deal with pirates who turn out to be far from the rescuers they hoped for. Their partners, meanwhile, mount their own search.
Ivan Reitman directed this 1998 action-adventure comedy, the eleventh of the fifteen films he directed in chronological order, arriving between Fathers' Day and Evolution. Michael Browning wrote the screenplay, and Roger Birnbaum, Reitman and Wallis Nicita produced for Touchstone Pictures with Roger Birnbaum Productions, Caravan Pictures and Northern Lights Entertainment. Harrison Ford plays Quinn opposite Anne Heche as Robin, with David Schwimmer as Frank, Jacqueline Obradors as Angelica, Temuera Morrison as Jager and Allison Janney as Marjorie. It runs 102 minutes.
Made for 70 million dollars, the film took 165 million dollars worldwide, a solid return. It holds a 5.9 rating on IMDb from around 88,000 votes and a 6.1 on TMDB from roughly 1,700 votes, while critics gave it 5.5 out of 10 across 42 reviews, putting professional and audience assessments close together.
What's left behind the scenes
- The airplane used in the film was also featured in the movie "On the Edge (1997)." In both films, it crashes.
- Julia Roberts was the main candidate for the lead female role.
- Filming took place from July 7th to October 29th, 1997, in Hawaii.
- Temuera Morrison and Cliff Curtis, who played the pirates, speak the Māori language (one of the Polynesian languages, the national language of the indigenous people of New Zealand). They found it impossible to pronounce the complex lines about gold, pirates, etc., so they babble nonsense on everyday topics, such as food.
- It was assumed that this film would make Anne Heche (then an actress, virtually unknown) the most popular actress of that period. On the same week she was considered for the role (she was simply informed verbally, the contract had not yet been signed), the film company Touchstone Pictures fired Heche because the actress appeared in public with Ellen DeGeneres, a well-known lesbian, whom she had met just a couple of days earlier. (The studio executives decided that no matter how much money was invested, Heche would never become an actress whose photos men would cut out of magazines and paste on their walls). Harrison Ford used all his connections, and Heche was reinstated in the cast, but irreparable damage to her career had already been done. With the exception of Joseph Ruben's "Six Days, Seven Nights" follow-up film, "Force Majeure", she was no longer offered leading roles.
- The aircraft flown by Harrison Ford's character is a single-engine DeHavilland Beaver. The actor owns an identical plane and flew it himself during filming. However, despite being a fairly experienced pilot, Harrison Ford had to obtain additional certification from the insurance company in order to fly with other actors on board.
Auditions in India
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