Romancing the Stone

Name: Romancing the Stone
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Released: 1984-03-30
Duration: 1 h 46 min
Rating: 6.8
Cast: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Zack Norman, Alfonso Arau

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.

Action Adventure Comedy Romance

6.8

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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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DirectorRobert Zemeckis

Keywords

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Budget$10M

Box Office$87M