Romancing the Stone is one of the movies that made 1984 a great year for cinephiles. It is Micheal Douglas’s baby…He bought the script from a young waitress, and as producer was instrumental in getting Robert Zemeckis to direct. He was not however guaranteed to be the lead, and had to convince the executive producers that he could do a better job than Sylvester Stallone or Burt Reynolds. Co-stars in this Rom-Com adventure are Danny Devito, and Kathleen Turner, who was willing to get really dirty for the role. Many early critics compared it to the Indiana Jones franchise, but I think that it better captures romance and Kathleen’s portrayal of the novelist / romantic fantasist leading lady makes the ensuing interpersonal dynamics more realistic somehow.

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Zemeckis credits the box office success of Romancing the Stone with allowing him to make the Back to the Future films. He did not however direct the Romancing the Stone sequel, Jewel of the Nile. The sequel has received a large amount of criticism and never achieved the same level of box office success as the original.

It’s difficult to find a romantic comedy that truly represent an era as well as Romancing the Stone did. It was unique because it was equally popular amongst young men as it was with women. This was because the move was mostly marketed on the action adventure genre and included a truly awesome soundtrack that the music video generation widely embraced. It’s a very rare gem of a movie from a simpler time.

Kathleen Turner plays Joan Wilder a hopeless romantic, living in a NYC apartment and dreaming of being swept off her feet by some storybook hero. In fact she has a successful career writing romance novels about her alter ego. Her sheltered life is far from the fantasy adventure romances that she writes about. But when her sister is kidnapped and she has to deliver the ransom. she gets to experience firsthand more than she ever imagined possible.

Watch Serpent and the Rainbow for a darker action adventure movie.

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