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Romancing the Stone

6.8/10

Rating

106 min

Runtime

1984

Release Year

Robert Zemeckis

Director

Cast

Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Zack Norman, Alfonso Arau

Quick Synopsis

Joan Wilder is a novelist who writes about passionate romances but leads a quiet, uneventful life. Her routine changes when she receives a mysterious package that is actually ransom money needed to rescue her kidnapped sister. Determined to help, Joan travels to South America to deliver the ransom. However, during her journey, she boards the wrong bus and finds herself lost and stranded in the jungle, facing unexpected challenges far from home.

Detailed Synopsis of Romancing the Stone

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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