Six Days Seven Nights/Reindeer Games (DVD - 1998)

SIX DAYS SEVEN NIGHTS: A tough-as-nails New York magazine editor (Anne Heche) is surprised when her boyfriend (David Schwimmer) pulls the romantic stunt of spontaneously buying tickets for a romantic South Pacific getaway. The trip seems to be shiny and happy until they find out that a grizzled curmudgeonly pilot (Harrison Ford) is their sole option for reaching their final destination, the remote island of Marcata. Along the way the bickering couple finds themselves stranded on a desert island, threatened by pirates, and ultimately, falling in love. SIX DAYS SEVEN NIGHTS is a fun romantic comedy with good comic performances from Ford and Heche.

REINDEER GAMES: Rudy Duncan (Ben Affleck) is a small-time car thief about to be released from jail in time for Christmas. When his cellmate, Nick, is suddenly killed, Rudy decides to take on his identity in order to meet Nick's beautiful pen-pal girlfriend, Ashley (Charlize Theron). The couple has fun until her psychotic brother, Gabriel (Gary Sinise), shows up. Gabriel and his gang want to hold up a casino where Nick had once worked, and they blackmail Rudy/Nick into going along with the scheme. Will Rudy be able to outsmart the bad guys, or will he end up facedown in the snow? Double crosses abound in this frosty film noir action movie boasting a twisty script and assured direction by veteran John Frankenheimer (THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE). minimize