It's often been observed by those who keep track of such things that Harrison Ford is an olden-days kind of movie star. Ford's distinctive charisma makes him the ideal lead for Ivan Reitman's Six Days, Seven Nights, a throwback to times when high-octane escapades and crazy love stories were standard fare. Shrewd and likable, the movie showcases Ford's rugged appeal, throwing it into relief against the flitty, flinty edginess of his co-star, Anne Heche. She's as perfect as Ford is for this throwback part. Here she looks a lot like Hepburn or Day, assured but ready to be swept off her feet, glamorous even when she's mud-splattered and tearing through jungle overgrowth, even willing to wonder—good-naturedly, of course—about her co-star's advancing age. And yet, as Ellen's very publicly displayed girlfriend, Heche is asked repeatedly—in straight and queer venue interviews alike—whether she can pull off being a romantic heterosexual lead. The question itself is symptomatic of current cultural anxieties; the movie, directed and co-produced by famously nice guy Reitman, makes these concerns into comedy, specifically posing questions about Ford's ability to make the grade. Heche plays Robin, a Cosmo-like magazine editor who's too stylish and too dependent on her cell phone. She goes on a small-island vacation with her fiancee, the doomed-to-nowheresville Frank (David Schwimmer), only to be dispatched to a photo shoot in Tahiti. She hires a cargo pilot named Quinn (Ford) to fly her there, they run into bad weather, they're shipwrecked, and run into snakes, earthquakes, mud and pirates. Entertaining in a shameless, old-fashioned way, the movie embraces a particular nostalgia, when moviegoers wanted to see white, heterosexual, upper-crusty folks ruling the earth. The fictions back then—about both movie stars and moviegoers—were accepted as such. And maybe that's what's most refreshing about the large and yet congenial scale of the fictions in Six Days, Seven Nights: you're not expected to believe it beyond the 106 minutes of screen time.