Romancing the Stone (1984)

03/30/1984 (US) • 1h 46m

Romance, Comedy, Action, Adventure

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.

Overview

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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Includes Romancing the Stone, The Jewel of the Nile

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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$10,000,000.00

Revenue

$86,572,238.00

Keywords

airplane

smuggling (contraband)

chase

kidnapping

crocodile

anti hero

treasure hunt

treasure map

betrayal

marijuana

jungle

author

drug lord

south america

double cross

archaeologist

novelist

jewel

opposites attract

archeology

soldier of fortune

colombia

romance books

adventure

romantic

excited

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