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Romancing the Stone

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6.8/10 • 1.8K

1984-03-301h 46m

RomanceComedyActionAdventure

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.

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.

Directors
Robert Zemeckis
Editors
Donn Cambern

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  1. Michael Douglas

    Michael Douglas

    Jack T. Colton

  2. Kathleen Turner

    Kathleen Turner

    Joan Wilder

  3. Danny DeVito

    Danny DeVito

    Ralph

  4. Zack Norman

    Zack Norman

    Ira

  5. Alfonso Arau

    Alfonso Arau

    Juan

  6. Manuel Ojeda

    Manuel Ojeda

    Zolo

  7. Holland Taylor

    Holland Taylor

    Gloria

  8. Mary Ellen Trainor

    Mary Ellen Trainor

    Elaine

  9. Eve Smith

    Eve Smith

    Mrs. Irwin

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CinemaSerf

Jun 8, 2023

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 "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.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$10,000,000.00
Revenue
$86,572,238.00
Keywords
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