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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.

6.8(2,148)19841h 46m9

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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Status
Released
Budget
$10M
Box office
$86.6M
Language
French
Part of Romancing the Stone Collection · 2 films
  • airplane
  • smuggling (contraband)
  • chase
  • kidnapping
  • crocodile
  • anti hero
  • treasure hunt
  • treasure map
  • betrayal
  • marijuana
  • jungle
  • author

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalPG30 Mar 1984
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical1224 Aug 1984
  • AustraliaAU

    • TheatricalM24 Aug 1984
  • BrazilBR

    • Theatrical1216 Apr 1984
  • DenmarkDK

    • Theatrical1114 Sept 1984
  • FranceFR

    • Theatrical124 Jul 1984
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical1230 Nov 1984
  • GreeceGR

    • TheatricalPG30 Nov 1984
  • HungaryHU

    • Theatrical1820 Mar 1986
  • IrelandIE

    • Theatrical1217 Aug 1984
  • ItalyIT

    • Theatrical7 Sept 1984
  • JapanJP

    • Theatrical20 Oct 1984

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Romancing the Stone was released on 30 March 1984.

Audience reviews

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    CinemaSerf

    6/8/2023

    6/10

    This film does make you realise just how good Harrison Ford was in "Indiana Jones" (also 1984) and how good Danny DeVito is in this - but as far as Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner go, well they are really pretty mediocre. He is "Jack", the dashing rogue who ends out helping slushy fiction writer "Joan" through the Colombian jungle in search of her kidnapped sister - something about a treasure map. This adventure …

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    Peter McGinn

    2/5/2024

    7/10

    I guess I was a bit more impressed with the leads in this movie than the other reviewer here, for I think they held up their end of a story that is, if anything, even more of a take-off on action movies that the Raider franchise. It is fluff, of course, with odd violence offsetting what is a rather gentle adventure. Good luck finding it on one of the streaming services out there. It is for sale or rent only at thi…

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    Wuchak

    6/29/2025

    6/10

    **_Goofy escapades in the jungles of Latin America with Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas_** A writer of romantic adventure in Manhattan (Turner) goes to Columbia to save her sister, who’s been kidnapped by shady cousins (Danny DeVito and Zack Norman). She meets an exotic bird smuggler (Douglas) who helps her evade a corrupt colonel (Alfonso Arau) and his military police. “Romancing the Stone” (1984) came in…

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