

As they are about to take off, the pirates reappear and fire shells onto the beach, injuring Quinn. They salvage the pontoons and attach them to Quinn's damaged plane in an attempt to leave the island. While hiding in the jungle, they discover a crashed World War II Japanese float plane. After briefly being captured, the two narrowly escape. The pirates spot Quinn and Robin and pursue them back to the island. Discovering that there are now two vessels moored next to each other, then observing a man being killed and thrown into the water, they realize that the second vessel belongs to pirates. Frank, believing Robin is dead, gets drunk and sleeps with Angelica after she seduces him.Īfter spotting a boat off the island coast, Robin and Quinn head out to it in the life raft. After climbing a high hill, they discover that in fact they are on a different island.īack on Makatea, Frank and Angelica accompany the aerial search party for their missing partners, but after several days, the search is unsuccessful and is soon called off. Quinn believes they are on an island that has a signal beacon located on a high hill. The plane gets damaged by a lightning strike, forcing Quinn to crash-land on a deserted island, damaging the plane's wheel.

While en route, a sudden thunderstorm appears. The next morning, Robin's boss Marjorie wants her to briefly interrupt her vacation to fly to Tahiti to supervise a fashion shoot. At a bar, a drunken Quinn, failing to recognize Robin, unsuccessfully hits on her. On their first night on the island, Frank proposes to Robin, who happily accepts. They are accompanied by Quinn's young girlfriend Angelica. The final leg of their journey to Makatea is in a vintage de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver, piloted by a middle-aged American, Quinn Harris. Her boyfriend Frank Martin surprises her with a week-long vacation in Makatea, an island in the South Pacific. Robin Monroe is a New York editor for a fashion magazine called Dazzle. Despite mixed reviews, the film was a moderate box-office success. It was filmed on location in Kauai, and released on June 12, 1998. The screenplay was written by Michael Browning. Six Days, Seven Nights is a 1998 American action- adventure comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman and starring Harrison Ford and Anne Heche.
