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Romancing the Stone

6.8

Released March 30, 1984Runtime 1h 46min

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.

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.

Genres

Romance

Comedy

Action

Adventure

Production Companies

SLM Production Group

Nina Saxon Film Design

El Corazon Producciones S.A.

20th Century Fox

Production Countries

United States of America

Mexico

Finances

Budget: $10,000,000
Revenue: $86,572,238
Profit/Loss: $76,572,238

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Cast

Michael DouglasJack T. Colton

Kathleen TurnerJoan Wilder

Danny DeVitoRalph

Zack NormanIra

Alfonso ArauJuan

Manuel OjedaZolo

Holland TaylorGloria

Mary Ellen TrainorElaine

Eve SmithMrs. Irwin

Joe NesnowSuper

José ChávezSantos

Evita Muñoz 'Chachita'Hefty Woman

Camillo GarcíaBus Driver

Rodrigo PueblaBad Hombre

Paco MoraytaHotel Clerk

Jorge ZamoraMaitre'D

Kymberly HerrinAngelina

William H. Burton Jr.Jessie

Ted WhiteGrogan

Manuel E. SantiagoVendor

Ron SilverVendor

Michael CassidyZolo's Men

Vince Deadrick Sr.Zolo's Men

Richard DrownZolo's Men

Joe FinneganZolo's Men

Jimmy MedearisZolo's Men

Jeff RamseyZolo's Men

Pablo Guisa KoestingerChild in Plaza

Lorna LableVendor

Jos LaniadoJuan Alvarez (uncredited)

Crew

Robert ZemeckisDirector

Sandy McLeodScript Supervisor

Terry LeonardSecond Unit Director

Joel DouglasFirst Assistant Director

Javier CarreñoSecond Assistant Director

Diane ThomasScreenplay

Michael DouglasProducer

Treva SilvermanProducer

Claudia BeckerCasting

Karen ReaCasting

Jack BrodskyCo-Producer

Joel DouglasCo-Producer

John D. SchofieldUnit Production Manager

Frank MorrissEditor

Donn CambernEditor

Dean CundeyDirector of Photography

Jeannie EpperStunts

Tracy Keehn-DashnawStunts

Eurlyne EpperStunt Double

Alan SilvestriOriginal Music Composer

Richard HartSecond Unit Director of Photography

Vince Deadrick Jr.Stunt Coordinator

Gerardo AlbarránStunts

Dean JeffriesStunts

Terry LeonardStunt Coordinator

Marilyn VanceCostume Design

Mark WalthourGaffer

Larry CarowSound Editor

William J. MeshoverAssistant Editor

Agustín ItuarteArt Direction

Kevin StittAssistant Editor

Robert C. ThomasCamera Operator

Gilda TexterCostume Supervisor

Jorge AzcárateAssistant Editor

E. Thomas CaseMakeup Artist

Charles L. CampbellSupervising Sound Editor

Lawrence G. PaullProduction Design

Billy MyattSpecial Effects Coordinator

William B. KaplanSound Mixer

Earl SampsonBoom Operator

Louis L. EdemannSound Editor

Ronald WoodwardKey Grip

David PettijohnSound Editor

Kathryn BlondellHairstylist

Samuel C. CrutcherSound Editor

Enrique EstévezSet Decoration

Mike DobieSound Editor

Chuck NeelyAssistant Sound Editor

Roger SwordSound Editor

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Reviews

This 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 write...

by Peter McGinn

I 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 rat...