Romancing the Stone

Name: Romancing the Stone
Cast: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Zack Norman, Alfonso Arau

Theatrical - Wide 1984-03-30

Cast Michael Douglas Kathleen Turner Danny DeVito Zack Norman Alfonso Arau
Directed by Robert Zemeckis
Written by Diane Thomas

Box Office Gross: $86,572,238

Running Time: 106 minutes

Language: English

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

Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Romance

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7/10

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... See more 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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Romancing the Stone

Posted 28 years ago

Review Date: Director: Robert Zemeckis Writer: Diane Thomas Producers: Michael Douglas Actors: Kathleen Turner as Joan Wilder Michael Douglas as Jack T. Colton Danny DeVito as Ralph Plot: Hopeless romantic and novelist Joan Wilder must deliver a map to Columbia...

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Posted 15 years ago

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