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| SIX DAYS SEVEN NIGHTS (1998) - PG-13
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ReviewScore: 53 out of 100
SBD Star Rating:
by Lew Irwin
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Most reviewers are giving Six Days, Seven Nights fair-to-middling reviews, with many suggesting that although the film rarely rises above the formula for romantic comedies, it provides satisfactory entertainment. "Okay, so it's not deep or surprising, but few romantic comedies are," writes Rita Kempley in today's Washington Post. "They are, in fact, foolishly outdated fantasies that wouldn't work in real life. But that's what we wanted, to be swept away." Jay Carr in the Boston Globe suggests that Six Days is "film's equivalent of beach blanket reading. Light, breezy, pleasant, no surprises." Mike Clark in USA Today likewise concludes, "This is the kind of piffle that plays just a little bit better if you see it while mildly sunburned. If this movie were a drink, there'd be an umbrella and a cherry floating inside it." And Kenneth Turan in the Los Angeles Times sums it all up, calling the film "a well-worn standard diversion that gets the job done without eliciting either howls of fury or paroxysms of delight. What Six Days lacks is what no one thought was necessary, the spark of originality."
(A number of reviews allude directly or indirectly to star Anne Heche's lesbian relationship with Ellen DeGeneres, each of them insisting that it has no bearing on the movie. "Ms. Heche makes it clear that she can play anybody's love interest radiantly and underscores that people seen flirting on screen are quite possibly acting," writes Janet Maslin in the New York Times.) |
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