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Romancing the Stone

Romancing the Stone

6.8/ 10

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1984

Release Year

106 min

Runtime

Romance
Comedy
Action
Adventure

Overview

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.

Keywords

airplane
smuggling (contraband)
chase
kidnapping
crocodile
anti hero
treasure hunt
treasure map
betrayal
marijuana
jungle
author
drug lord
south america
double cross
archaeologist
novelist
jewel
opposites attract
archeology
soldier of fortune
colombia
romance books
adventure
romantic
excited

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Reviews(3)

6.3avg rating
CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

June 8, 2023

6
6/10

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

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Peter McGinn

Peter McGinn

@narrator56

February 5, 2024

7
7/10

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 rath

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Wuchak

Wuchak

June 29, 2025

6
6/10

**_Goofy escapades in the jungles of Latin America with Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas_** A writer of romantic adventure in Manhattan (Turner) goes to Columbia to save her sister, who’s been kidnapped by shady cousins (Danny DeVito and Zack Norman). She meets an exotic bird smuggler (Douglas

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