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| Romancing The Stone |
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Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
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20th Century Fox
 (1984)
105 mins
PG
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 6.8 (19,506 votes)
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Get ready for the ultimate ride into the heart of adventure! Now on Special Edition DVD and including eight deleted scenes, four featurettes, all-new on-camera interviews with Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito, this "fun-filled escapist entertainment" (L.A. Movie Gazette) hurtles along at a breakneck pace, delivering heart-pounding thrills and gut-busting laughs all the way!
Romance novelist Joan Wilder (Turner) lives for - and in - a fantasy world. But when her sister is kidnapped in Colombia and the only chance to save her is to bring a treasure map to her captors, reality quickly becomes stranger then fiction. Thrown into a jungle full of gunfire, mud slides and poisonous snakes, Joan's only hope lies with Jack Colton (Douglas), a rugged wanderer straight out of her novels. Together, they'll have to outwit the bandits and survive the jungle if they'... |
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Robert Zemeckis
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Michael Douglas |
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Diane Thomas; Lem Dobbs |
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Goofs: Continuity: In order for Jack and Joan to enter the cave where the gem is buried, they have to wade through the bottom of a waterfall to get to it and thus become soaking wet. However, when Ralph arrives to steal the gem from them, he's completely dry. (more) Trivia: Director trademark: panning across part of a room with a loudly ticking clock to a ringing phone (also found in Back to the Future and Amazing Stories Book Two: Go to the Head of the Class). (more) Filming Locations: Jalapa, Veracruz, Mexico (more) Quotes: Joan Wilder: What is all this? Jack Colton: All this? About five to life in the States, a couple of centuries down here. Joan Wilder: Oh, marijuana. Jack Colton: Oh, you smoke it? Joan Wilder: [ defensively] I went to college. (more) Awards: Nominated for Oscar. Another 5 wins & 2 nominations (more)
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