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Romancing the Stone

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.
Mar 30, 1984 · 1h 46m
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Romance
Comedy
Action
Adventure

PLOT

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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CAST

Michael Douglas
Jack T. Colton
Kathleen Turner
Joan Wilder
Danny DeVito
Ralph
Zack Norman
Ira
Alfonso Arau
Juan
Manuel Ojeda
Zolo
Holland Taylor
Gloria
Mary Ellen Trainor
Elaine
Directed by Robert Zemeckis

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
$10,000,000
Revenue
$86,572,238
Production
SLM Production Group, Nina Saxon Film Design, El Corazon Producciones S.A., 20th Century Fox
Country
US

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