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.

Romancing the Stone — Plot

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.

• Release date
• March 30, 1984
• Runtime
• 106 min
• Genres
• Romance, Comedy, Action, Adventure
• Director
• Robert Zemeckis

Romancing the Stone — Cast

Michael Douglas Jack T. Colton Kathleen Turner Joan Wilder Danny DeVito Ralph Zack Norman Ira Alfonso Arau Juan Manuel Ojeda Zolo Holland Taylor Gloria Mary Ellen Trainor Elaine