A mousy romance novelist sets off for Colombia to ransom her kidnapped sister, and soon finds herself in the middle of a dangerous adventure hunting for treasure with a mercenary rogue.A mousy romance novelist sets off for Colombia to ransom her kidnapped sister, and soon finds herself in the middle of a dangerous adventure hunting for treasure with a mercenary rogue.A mousy romance novelist sets off for Colombia to ransom her kidnapped sister, and soon finds herself in the middle of a dangerous adventure hunting for treasure with a mercenary rogue.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 8 wins & 7 nominations total
Evita Muñoz 'Chachita'
- Hefty Woman
- (as Chachita)
Kymberly Herrin
- Angelina
- (as Kym Herrin)
William H. Burton Jr.
- Jessie
- (as Bill Burton)
- Director
- Writers
- Diane Thomas
- Lem Dobbs(uncredited)
- Howard Franklin(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaStudio executives were so sure this film would flop that Robert Zemeckis was pre-emptively fired from directing Cocoon (1985). It turned out to be such a success that Zemeckis was able to go forward on his own project, Back to the Future (1985).
- GoofsJack presents Joan with a very elaborate necklace from his pocket. When she takes it in hand, it's a simple charm on a chain.
- Quotes
Jack Colton: What did you do, wake up this morning and say, "Today, I'm going to ruin a man's life"?
- Alternate versionsTo get a 'PG' rating in the UK, a scene near the end where the villain gets his hand bitten off by a crocodile was removed. The film was later passed '12' uncut in the UK in 2001.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Saturday Night Live: Michael Douglas/Deniece Williams (1984)
- SoundtracksRomancing the Stone
Written, Produced and Performed by Eddy Grant
Courtesy of Portrait/Ice Records
Heard in the patio scene after Joan and Jack are invited into the "bell maker's" house
Featured review
Great
Great action comedy adventure from the mid 80's starring Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny De Vito. Douglas and De Vito are great but to me the film belongs to Kathleen Turner, she's fantastic and looks absolutely stunning. Its also very well directed from the future director of Back to the Future and Forrest Gump amongst others. Its often mentioned as a rip off of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom but I don't really think it is that apparent, the scenes in the Jungle at the start of the film are really good especially when they find the crashed plane "There's nothing like a good fire"!!!. Danny De Vito is really funny as the comic relief and his cousin has some funny lines "Look at them snappers, would ya". My only small complaint is the romantic stuff is a little corny but I suppose thats for the female audience. They followed this up with "Jewel of the Nile" just a year later! Sadly like most sequels it wasn't nearly as good as this, actually its not really worth bothering about unfortunately, Douglas, Turner and De Vito also teamed up again in another film "War of the Roses" but that film has no connection with this or Jewel of the Nile. So if you haven't seen Romancing the Stone look out for it, it's excellent.
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Details
- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Languages
- Also known as
- Auf der Jagd nach dem grünen Diamanten
- Filming locations
- Huasca de Ocampo, Hidalgo, Mexico(Little town in film)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $10,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $76,572,238
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $5,105,741
- Apr 1, 1984
- Gross worldwide
- $86,572,238
- Runtime1 hour 46 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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