6.5
“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.”
Romancing the Stone (1984)
March 30, 19841h 46mEN
6.8
2.0K votes
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.
Director
Robert ZemeckisWriter
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Status
Released
Original Language
French
Budget
$10.0M
Revenue
$86.6M
Production Companies
SLM Production GroupNina Saxon Film DesignEl Corazon Producciones S.A.20th Century Fox
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CinemaSerf
6.0This 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…
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Peter McGinn
7.0I 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.
Wuchak
6.0**_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) who helps her evade a corrupt colonel (Alfonso Arau) and his military police. “Romancing the Stone” (1984) came in the wake of the success of “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” It’s an entertaining flick that effectively walks the balance beam between serious adventure and fun storytelling. Unfortunat…
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