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.
1984 • 106 min • Romance · Comedy · Action · Adventure
Synopsis
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.
Our family guide
Best from age 10- 100 Reviewers · 3 · 53%
- 68 Audience · 2085 · 47%
A romance novelist finds herself embroiled in a perilous adventure when she travels to Colombia to rescue her kidnapped sister. She teams up with a rugged American bird smuggler, facing danger and developing an unexpected connection.
- Violence & peril
- 4/10
- Language
- 2/10
- Drinking, drugs & smoking
- 3/10
- Romance & sensuality
- 3/10
- Scary moments
- 4/10
Heads up
- Some peril and chase sequences
- Brief drug references and mild language
- Implied intimacy and suggestive dialogue
What it models well
- Bravery and resourcefulness
- Finding love in unexpected places
- Stepping out of one's comfort zone
Talk about it after
- How Joan changes throughout her adventure
- The difference between book romance and real-life love
- The choices characters make under pressure
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Top billed cast
Director: Robert Zemeckis • Crew: Diane Thomas
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Reviewer notes
Recommended**_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.…
RecommendedTrusted family reviewersI 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.…
RecommendedTrusted family reviewersThis 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.…
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Details
- TMDB audience
- 6.8/10 (2,085)
- Age rating
- PG
- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $10,000,000
- Box office
- $86,572,238
- Franchise
- Romancing the Stone Collection
- IMDb
- tt0088011
