Movie
Romancing the Stone
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1984-03-30
- Runtime
- 106 min
- Genres
- Romance, Comedy, Action, Adventure
- Status
- Released
- Production
- SLM Production Group, Nina Saxon Film Design, El Corazon Producciones S.A., 20th Century Fox
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
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
- Holland Taylor as Gloria
- Mary Ellen Trainor as Elaine
- Eve Smith as Mrs. Irwin
- Joe Nesnow as Super
- José Chávez as Santos
- Evita Muñoz 'Chachita' as Hefty Woman
Crew
- Robert Zemeckis - Director
- Diane Thomas - Writer
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