Romancing the Stone
Jungle treasure hunt
Romancing the Stone is a 1984 American adventure comedy film starring Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas, about a romance novelist swept into a real-life adventure in Colombia.
The title has become shorthand for finding unexpected romance through perilous circumstances, or for the gap between romantic fantasy and messy reality.
- adventureRisky exciting undertaking
- love interestRomantic focus of a story
- jungleDense tropical forest
- ColombiaEquatorial South American republic
- emeraldGreen precious beryl
Kathleen Turner · action heroine · Michael Douglas · treasure · Danny DeVito · crocodile · mudslide · novelist · pulp fiction · kidnapping · damsel in distress · chase · exotic · waterfall · smuggler · ransom · eighties · Robert Zemeckis
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- action filmschase scene, car chase, explosion, stunt, shootout
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