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Romancing the Stone
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1984 film by Robert Zemeckis
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6.8Though 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.
Cast
- Michael Douglas as Jack T. Colton
- Kathleen Turner as Joan Wilder
- Danny DeVito as Ralph
- Zack Norman as Ira
- Alfonso Arau as Juan
- Manuel Ojeda as Zolo
Themes
- airplane
- smuggling (contraband)
- chase
- kidnapping
- crocodile
- anti hero
- treasure hunt
- treasure map
- betrayal
- marijuana
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Ratings
IMDb
6.9/10
111,320 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
86%
Metacritic
63/100
- Year
- 1984
- Runtime
- 106 min
- Genres
- Action, Adventure, Comedy
- Rated
- PG
- Awards
- Nominated for 1 Oscar. 9 wins & 7 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Robert Zemeckis
- Written by
- Diane Thomas
- Produced by
- Michael Douglas
- Starring
- Michael Douglas Kathleen Turner Danny DeVito Alfonso Arau Manuel Ojeda
- Cinematography
- Dean Cundey
- Edited by
- Donn Cambern , Frank Morriss
- Music by
- Alan Silvestri
- Production company
- El Corazon Producciones S.A.
- Distributed by
- 20th Century Fox
- Release dates
- March 30, 1984 ( 1984-03-30 ) (United States) September 14, 1984 ( 1984-09-14 ) (Mexico)
- Running time
- 106 minutes
- Countries
- Mexico United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $10 million
- Box office
- $115.1 million
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 103
- FilmAffinity ID
- 781476
Show 5 more facts
- publication date
- 1984-03-30
- title
- Romancing the Stone
- capital cost
- 10000000
- box office
- 86572238
- review score
- 86%
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Romancing the Stone is a 1984 romantic comedy-adventure film directed by Robert Zemeckis, written by Diane Thomas and produced by Michael Douglas, who also stars in the film alongside Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito. The film follows a romance novelist who must venture beyond her New York City comfort zone to Colombia to save her widowed sister from criminals who are holding her for ransom.
Thomas wrote the screenplay in 1979. Zemeckis, who at the time was developing Cocoon, liked Thomas's screenplay and offered to direct but 20th Century Fox initially declined, citing the commercial failure of his first two films I Wanna Hold Your Hand and Used Cars. Zemeckis was eventually dismissed from Cocoon after an early screening of Romancing the Stone failed to impress studio executives further. Alan Silvestri, who would collaborate with Zemeckis on his later films, composed the score.