Romancing the Stone

Name: Romancing the Stone
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Released: March 30, 1984
Duration: 106 min
Rating: 63
Cast: Alfonso Arau, Danny DeVito, Eve Smith, Holland Taylor, Joe Nesnow

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Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: March 30, 1984 | PG

Starring: Alfonso Arau, Danny DeVito, Eve Smith, Holland Taylor, Joe Nesnow, Kathleen Turner, Manuel Ojeda, Mary Ellen Trainor, Michael Douglas, Zack Norman

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!

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance

Rating: PG

Runtime: 106 min

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The Telegraph Serena Davies

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. Read full review

Empire William Thomas

Douglas and Turner make a great double act in this exuberantly directed adventure movie with a great start turn from the always enjoyable De Vito. Good stuff. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Although comparisons with Steven Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark are inevitable, it is the interplay between Turner and Douglas that gives the film its real charm. Norman and DeVito score strongly in roles that would have been played by Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre 30 years ago, and the whole film has the feel of an old Warner Bros. thriller with broadly comic overtones. Read full review

Filip Vuckevic

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. Read full review

Time Out London Staff (Not Credited)

The script is sharp and funny, the direction sure-footed on both the comedy and action fronts, and the whole thing adds up to rather more concerted fun than Indiana Jones' flab-ridden escapade in the Temple of Doom. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

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. Read full review

Gary Arnold

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. Read full review

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Alekszander

Nov 23, 2020

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". HisThis 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.… Expand

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eva3si0n

Jun 12, 2021

Romancing The Stone is a great adventure movie. Michael Douglas plays a great role, very reminiscent of Indiana Jones. Watching the films of Robert Zemeckis understand how modern adventure films degrade. One of the best adventure films, a good cast.

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timone

Nov 9, 2018

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 JackOK 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.… Expand

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drlowdon

Jun 5, 2022

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 movieAfter 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.… Expand

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