RomanceComedyActionAdventure

Romancing the Stone

- 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.

Release Date : 1984-03-30

Language :FrenchEnglishSpanish

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : SLM Production GroupNina Saxon Film DesignEl Corazon Producciones S.A.20th Century Fox

Production Country : United States of AmericaMexico

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Jack T. Colton

Original Name : Michael Douglas

Gender : Male

Character Name : Joan Wilder

Original Name : Kathleen Turner

Gender : Female

Character Name : Ralph

Original Name : Danny DeVito

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ira

Original Name : Zack Norman

Gender : Male

Character Name : Juan

Original Name : Alfonso Arau

Gender : Male

Character Name : Zolo

Original Name : Manuel Ojeda

Gender : Male

Character Name : Gloria

Original Name : Holland Taylor

Gender : Female

Character Name : Elaine

Original Name : Mary Ellen Trainor

Gender : Female

Character Name : Mrs. Irwin

Original Name : Eve Smith

Gender : Female

Character Name : Super

Original Name : Joe Nesnow

Gender : Male

Character Name : Santos

Original Name : José Chávez

Gender : Male

Character Name : Hefty Woman

Original Name : Evita Muñoz

Gender : Female

Character Name : Bus Driver

Original Name : Camillo García

Gender : Male

Character Name : Bad Hombre

Original Name : Rodrigo Puebla

Gender : Male

Character Name : Hotel Clerk

Original Name : Paco Morayta

Gender : Male

Character Name : Maitre'D

Original Name : Jorge Zamora

Gender : Male

Character Name : Angelina

Original Name : Kymberly Herrin

Gender : Female

Character Name : Jessie

Original Name : William H. Burton Jr.

Gender : Male

Character Name : Grogan

Original Name : Ted White

Gender : Male

Character Name : Vendor

Original Name : Manuel E. Santiago

Gender : Male

Character Name : Vendor

Original Name : Ron Silver

Gender : Male

Character Name : Zolo's Men

Original Name : Michael Cassidy

Gender : Male

Character Name : Zolo's Men

Original Name : Vince Deadrick Sr.

Gender : Male

Character Name : Zolo's Men

Original Name : Richard Drown

Gender : Male

Character Name : Zolo's Men

Original Name : Joe Finnegan

Gender : Male

Character Name : Zolo's Men

Original Name : Jimmy Medearis

Gender : Male

Character Name : Zolo's Men

Original Name : Jeff Ramsey

Gender : Male

Character Name : Child in Plaza

Original Name : Pablo Guisa Koestinger

Gender : Male

Character Name : Vendor

Original Name : Lorna Lable

Gender : Female

Character Name : Juan Alvarez (uncredited)

Original Name : Jos Laniado

Gender : Male

Reviews

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2023-06-08

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.

Peter McGinn

@narrator56

2024-02-05

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 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.