Romancing the Stone

1984 106 min ★ 6.8 Romance, Comedy, Action, Adventure

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.

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Cast

Michael Douglas

Jack T. Colton

Kathleen Turner

Joan Wilder

Danny DeVito

Ralph

Zack Norman

Ira

Alfonso Arau

Juan

Manuel Ojeda

Zolo

Holland Taylor

Gloria

Mary Ellen Trainor

Elaine

Eve Smith

Mrs. Irwin

Joe Nesnow

Super

Details

Director

Robert Zemeckis

Tagline

"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."

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$10,000,000

Revenue

$86,572,238

Production

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

Reviews

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CinemaSerf

June 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 ...

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Peter McGinn

February 5, 2024

★ 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 rather gentle adventure. Good luck finding it on one of the streaming services out there. It is for sale...

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Wuchak

June 29, 2025

★ 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) who helps her evade a corrupt colonel (Alfonso Arau) and his military police. “Romancing the S...