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- 1984
- PG
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 46 m
- 1984
- PG
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 46 m
Summary After her sister is kidnapped by thugs amidst their search for a priceless gem in the Colombian jungle, a romance novelist (Kathleen Turner) realizes that her own life is in danger! And when she sets out to rescue her sister, she meets a handsome fortune seeker (Michael Douglas), who more than sidetracks her!
Directed By: Robert Zemeckis
Written By: Diane Thomas, Lem Dobbs, Howard Franklin, Treva Silverman
- 1984
- PG
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 46 m
- 1984
- PG
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 46 m
Romancing the Stone
63
8.0
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Summary After her sister is kidnapped by thugs amidst their search for a priceless gem in the Colombian jungle, a romance novelist (Kathleen Turner) realizes that her own life is in danger! And when she sets out to rescue her sister, she meets a handsome fortune seeker (Michael Douglas), who more than sidetracks her!
Directed By: Robert Zemeckis
Written By: Diane Thomas, Lem Dobbs, Howard Franklin, Treva Silverman
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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53% Positive
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47% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
63
53% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
47% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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A classic adventure story that brilliantly transcends its fairly average formula (buttoned-up city gal is softened by devil-may-care chancer while outwitting baddies in foreign lands) through a mixture of perfect casting, lashings of chemistry between the stars and a clever script.
Turner and Douglas have great chemistry—in their best moments, they recall Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable on the road in It Happened One Night—helped by the fact that Douglas is willing to be undercut by both Turner and the screenplay.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 55 User Ratings
8.0
76% Positive
42 Ratings
42 Ratings
22% Mixed
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2% Negative
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 55 User Ratings
8.0
76% Positive
42 Ratings
42 Ratings
22% Mixed
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
2% Negative
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This movie is arguably one of the best comedies of the 80's. "The Princess Bride" would be a worthy adversary yet not even Inigo Montaya could rival Jack T. Colton's quick wit. Micheal Douglas portrays this Indiana Jones-like persona to a tee. Funny, vulgar, charming and "Trustworthy". His introduction and the next 20 minutes, where skint-Jack and lost-Joan get to know each other, are without a doubt my favourite part of this mystery comedy. Kathleen Turner is a great damsel in distress who will never stop trying to find her sister held captive by a fantastic DeVito. But so many hilarious and unforgettable moments obstruct her path.
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The filmmakers have devised some clever twists on the earlier films they recall - Raiders of the Lost Ark and Peter Pan among them - and they reserve a good share of the derring-do for their heroine, who's a refreshingly far cry from the helpless ladies-in-distress of old. Under the direction of Robert Zemeckis, the action goes limp and perfunctory at a few key moments, weakening the picture's wallop. But it still packs a healthy amount of self-deflating fun.
Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner are wonderful together. They look great when they're in bed together and they look even better when they're fighting. Throw Danny DeVito into the mix and you've got a very enjoyable, watchable trio of heroes.
After a fairly promising getaway, Romancing the Stone gradually chases its tail into enough melodramatic dead ends to deteriorate into an expendable runaround, all too easy to shrug off as a miscalculated clone of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Heading for the jungles in her high heels, Turner is like a lot of unwitting screen heroines ahead of her, guaranteed that her drab existence is about to be transformed – probably by a man, preferably handsome and adventurous. Sure enough, Michael Douglas pops out of the jungle. The expected complications are supplied by the kidnappers, Danny DeVito and Zack Norman.
An elaborately produced, mostly charmless adventure-comedy that intends to make fun of a kind of romantic fiction that's one step removed from what the movie is all about.
OK let me tell you something about the movie that I like, Michael Douglas is one of my favorite actors. I even watched one of his movies. Kathleen Turner plays a romance novelist who wants to find her sister. Danny DeVito plays a really crooked smuggler. Michael Douglas's character Jack Colton looks just exactly like that guy from The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. That's unspoken for. Jack and Joan have great chemistry together. The scene is unexpected where Jack has the green emerald in his crotch and he dances to let the emerald scroll down his leg and kicks it in the air to let the bad guy catch it and the crocodile bites his hand off, now that's freaking grim. This is a very underrated film. Just brilliant! Danny DeVito plays Ralph and that guy who plays his mate Ira kidnapped Joan's sister so they can get the stone and the map and if Ralph and Ira can have the map and gem Joan and her sister can go. But they're not the bad guys, they're just crooks. The only villian in this movie is Zolo, he's the one who wants the stone. Remember when I said he got his hand bitten off by a crocodile? Yeah, and like I said ''It's freaking grim.'' I actually took me a while to watch this movie for some reason I have to watch this and the sequal to Romancing the Stone. The story, I know it all the way through. It's fantastic. The characters are well developed. It's just fxxking awsome.
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After returning home following an editors meeting to discuss her latest romance novel, Joan discovers her apartment has been ransacked. Soon after she receives a frantic call from her sister who has been kidnapped telling her she must meet the kidnappers in Columbia. An adventure movie very much in the same vein as Raider’s of the Lost Ark, Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner make for a great pairing and it’s easy to get swept along for the ride.
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Production Company
Twentieth Century Fox,
El Corazon Producciones S.A.,
Nina Saxon Film Design,
SLM Production Group
Release Date Mar 30, 1984
Duration 1 h 46 m
Rating PG
Tagline 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.
Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
Stuntman Awards
• 4 Wins & 4 Nominations
