Romancing the Stone

Romancing the Stone

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Romance Comedy Action Adventure

She's a girl from the big city. He's a reckless soldier of fortune. For a fabulous treasure, they share an adventure no one could imagine... or survive.

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Producer: Michael Douglas, Treva Silverman

Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her abducted sister, so Joan flies to South America to hand it over. But she gets on the wrong bus and winds up hopelessly stranded in the jungle.

106 min Rating: 6.757/10 Released
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Top Cast

Michael Douglas
Michael Douglas
 Jack T. Colton
Kathleen Turner
Kathleen Turner
 Joan Wilder
Danny DeVito
Danny DeVito
 Ralph
Zack Norman
Zack Norman
 Ira
Alfonso Arau
Alfonso Arau
 Juan
Manuel Ojeda
Manuel Ojeda
 Zolo

Movie Info

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Producer: Michael Douglas, Treva Silverman

Production Companies: SLM Production Group, Nina Saxon Film Design, El Corazon Producciones S.A., 20th Century Fox

Countries: United States of America, Mexico

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What Others Said

CinemaSerf: This film does make you realise just how good Harrison Ford was in "Indiana Jones" (also 1984) and how good Danny DeVito is in this - but as far as Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner go, well they are really pretty mediocre. He is "Jack", the dashing rogue who ends out helping slushy fiction writer "Joan" through the Colombian jungle in search of her kidnapped sister - something about a treasure map. This adventure takes for ever to get going, but once it does it offers us a colourful and entertaining enough series of set-piece escapades with a beat-heavy synthesised score that works hard to compensate for some really inane dialogue from both. Kidnapper DeVito ("Ralph") amiably steals the scenes he features in, as the story builds to a suitably perilous - and predictable - denouement with big creepy insects, a waterfall, car chases - and everyone gets wet a lot. You get the drift. It's fine to pass an afternoon and there is some chemistry between the two, but it's all a bit of a pale imitation now and the comedic elements have not aged very well either.
Peter McGinn: I guess I was a bit more impressed with the leads in this movie than the other reviewer here, for I think they held up their end of a story that is, if anything, even more of a take-off on action movies that the Raider franchise. It is fluff, of course, with odd violence offsetting what is a rather gentle adventure. Good luck finding it on one of the streaming services out there. It is for sale or rent only at this time. I had a chance to watch it free, however, as I wasn’t about to buy or rent it. It is good, but not that good.