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Romancing the Stone
Romancing the Stone

6.8

Romancing the Stone

PG·1984·106m

Summary

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.

Crew

Director

Robert Zemeckis

Screenplay

Diane Thomas

Reviews

Geronimo1967

Geronimo1967

June 8, 2023

6

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.

Media

Status:

Released

Original Language:

English

Budget:

$10,000,000.00

Revenue:

$86,572,238.00

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