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."

Mar 30 1984 PG 1h 46m
Action, Adventure, Comedy

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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Plot

Joan Wilder, a mousy romance novelist, receives a treasure map in the mail from her recently murdered brother-in-law. Meanwhile, her sister Elaine is kidnapped in Colombia and the two criminals responsible demand that she travel to Colombia to exchange the map for her sister. Joan does, and quickly becomes lost in the jungle after being waylayed by Zolo, a vicious and corrupt Colombian cop who will stop at nothing to obtain the map. There, she meets an irreverent soldier-of-fortune named Jack Colton who agrees to bring her back to civilization. Together, they embark upon an adventure that could be straight out of Joan's novels.

Written by

Diane Thomas

Directed by

Robert Zemeckis

Cast

Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America, Mexico

Production Companies

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

Languages

Español, English, Français

Awards

Nominated for 1 Oscar. 8 wins & 7 nominations total

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107,134
Average Rating
6.9 out of 10
Metascore
63
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