Romancing the Stone
1984 Film Synopsis & Plot Summary
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
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.
Full Plot Summary 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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