When `Six Days Seven Nights' was released in 1998, it was during the time of co-star Anne Heche's celebrated relationship with Ellen DeGeneres. The question was not so much how good the film was, but would the public accept a lesbian playing a romantic interest of Harrison Ford's. The answer was, `no.' The film underperformed at the box office.
And that's a shame, because Heche is terrific. She takes a stereotypical role, that of a New York magazine editor stranded on an island with pilot Ford, and instead of giving us a typical pampered/complaining/fearful woman, gives us someone who is alive, brave and resourceful.
The rest of the film is a throwaway. Ford has played this type of character many times before. A subplot of murderous pirates attacking Ford and Heche belongs in another film, and the mutual attraction of Heche's fiance (played by David Schwimmer with his worst `Friends' mannerisms) and Ford's girlfriend (Jacqueline Obradors) is a waste of time.
And that's a shame, because Heche is terrific. She takes a stereotypical role, that of a New York magazine editor stranded on an island with pilot Ford, and instead of giving us a typical pampered/complaining/fearful woman, gives us someone who is alive, brave and resourceful.
The rest of the film is a throwaway. Ford has played this type of character many times before. A subplot of murderous pirates attacking Ford and Heche belongs in another film, and the mutual attraction of Heche's fiance (played by David Schwimmer with his worst `Friends' mannerisms) and Ford's girlfriend (Jacqueline Obradors) is a waste of time.