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Romancing the Stone
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1984 film by Robert Zemeckis
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*Romancing the Stone* is a 1984 action comedy and romance film directed by Robert Zemeckis. The screenplay was written by Diane Thomas, with Michael Douglas serving as both producer and cast member alongside Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, and Alfonso Arau. The film was produced by 20th Century Studios and distributed by the same studio as well as Netflix. It features music by Alan Silvestri and cinematography by Dean Cundey.
The narrative is set in New York City and Colombia, with filming taking place in New York City and Mexico. The film has a runtime of 106 minutes and was released on March 30, 1984. It has a budget of $10,000,000 and earned $86,572,238 at the box office. The film is rated PG and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing. It is followed by *The Jewel of the Nile*.
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Film · TMDB
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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Encyclopedic overview
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.
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