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. From TMDB
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60 of 203 · most liked firstthinking about relatively big movie franchises that left zero cultural footprint. does anyone remember ROMANCING THE STONE/JEWEL OF THE NILE? pair of mid '80s movies w/michael douglas, kathleen turner, and danny devito that combined being an indiana jones ripoff w/screwball romantic comedy vibes
unlabelledView post →Any fans of the 1984 movie Romancing the Stone?
unlabelledView post →Romancing the Stone was an amazing movie, spoofing all those cheesy, romance novels and showing what it would really be like, and people just didn't get it.
unlabelledView post →CINEMA SECRET: A DELETED SCENE for Back to the Future would have involved the entirety of ROMANCING THE STONE but filmmakers decided to make that a different movie released earlier.
unlabelledView post →Tonight's movie: Romancing The Stone. Featuring the wonderful Kathleen Turner and the great Michael Douglas. Love these movies!
unlabelledView post →TIL that the “Romancing the Stone” screenwriter was a waitress, and the movie briefly made her Hollywood’s hottest writer before she died young in the crash of a Porsche Michael Douglas gave her. www.nytimes.com/2024/03/29/m...
unlabelledView post →The Essential Indiana Jones Rip Off Movies of the 1980s - From King Solomon’s Mines to Romancing the Stone.
unlabelledView post →Romancing the Stone is one of the most Video Store Movie movies ever made imo. Still never seen it but it was always on prominent rotation at Video Update when I went every tuesday as a kid
unlabelledView post →Fearless performance: Kathleen Turner in Ken Russell's controversial CRIMES OF PASSION (1984). Same year as ROMANCING THE STONE! Designer by day, Turner became prostitute China Blue at night. Pursued by two men, Turner was all guts & bravura acting. Is film good? 🤷♂️ Turner incredible. #filmsky 📽🎥🎞🎬
unlabelledView post →Four 📽 Faves: Robert Zemeckis Happy Birthday edition: Oscar-winning director of FORREST GUMP & maker of some true blockbusters! 5/14/51. Romancing the Stone (84) Back to the Future (85) Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (88) Cast Away (00) #filmsky 📽
unlabelledView post →Alternative movie poster of the day 🎥😍 Romancing the Stone (1984) By Nick Charge
unlabelledView post →Stallone also turned down the lead in 1984 for Romancing The Stone. What movie did he make instead? If you guessed Rhinestone, you are correct.
unlabelledView post →💫 TL;DR: ROMANCING THE STONE is a miracle of a movie—chaotic shoot, last-minute saves, unscripted brilliance—and it made film history. Let’s watch! #TCMParty #RomancingTheStone ^JW
unlabelledView post →Do you remember this movie? Someone on the Internet asked who still remembered the movie Romancing the Stone - I responded with this picture from my living room 😎
unlabelledView post →#Watched The Running Man (2025) - Remember that scene in Romancing the Stone where Alfonso Arau completely takes over the movie for like 10m? Michael Cera is bringing that same cocaine fever energy SO HARD, he wakes this movie up for a while before it sinks back into its typical somnolence.
unlabelledView post →Been absolute years. #NowWatching Romancing the Stone.
unlabelledView post →People don't talk about Romancing the Stone nearly enough and that's a shame because it was a really fun movie.
unlabelledView post →YOU WITH A VIEW x ROMANCING THE STONE x OVERBOARD A disgraced LA influencer heads to remote Australia to film content with a rowdy animal enthusiast in a last-ditch effort to save her brand. Amid avoiding poachers and crocs, romance sizzles in the Australian heat. #youdeservepit #q #a #r
unlabelledView post →I don't care what anyone says, Romancing the Stone is a perfect film.
unlabelledView post →Alternative movie poster of the day 🎥😍 Romancing the Stone (1984) By Nick Charge
unlabelledView post →Tonight’s family movie is the 1984 adventure/comedy Romancing the Stone Starring Kathleen Turner, Michael Douglas and Danny DeVito. A fun movie
unlabelledView post →Having a bad pain flare day so watching Romancing the Stone as the evening movie to distract me.
unlabelledView post →If you don’t remember the Alfonso Arau character from Romancing the Stone (a movie I revisited a year or two ago and which definitely still fucks) - he’s so fun “THE Joan Wilder?!??” Source: Instagram share.google/xm7xSj4Q0bV1...
unlabelledView post →The studio had no faith in the film. Zemeckis was already hired for COCOON, but after early test screenings of ROMANCING THE STONE, he was fired… and immediately pivoted to BACK TO THE FUTURE. #TCMParty #RomancingTheStone ^JW
unlabelledView post →Romancing The Stone aka no bitches the movie idk ive never seen it
unlabelledView post →Tonight’s family movie is the 1984 adventure/comedy/romance movie Romancing The Stone.
unlabelledView post →#MarchMovieChallenge #Moviesky #Filmsky 3/27: Somebody dances to Latin music in a movie Romancing the Stone youtu.be/7ntjjX6Mlng?...
unlabelledView post →Watching one of my favourite 80's movie on tv 📺 Romancing The Stone 🥰 #Filmsky #Eighties #MichaelDouglas #KathleenTurner #DannyDevito
unlabelledView post →I now wanna watch another 80's movie, I'm thinking 🎬 • Batteries Not Included • Cocoon • Return To Oz • Turner And Hooch • Romancing The Stone
unlabelledView post →I've always thought ROMANCING THE STONE would be a great movie to reboot. LOST CITY (2022) kind of dipped its toes into that well, but I think a straight reboot would be awesome.
unlabelledView post →Last night I watched Romancing The Stone for the first time and the first three minutes of that movie are a closeup of a woman's nips showing through her sweat drenched blouse AND THAT WAS A PG MOVIE IN 1984!!
unlabelledView post →Four 📽 Faves: Robert Zemeckis Happy Birthday edition: Oscar-winning director of FORREST GUMP & maker of some true blockbusters! 5/14/51. Romancing the Stone (84) Back to the Future (85) Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (88) Cast Away (00) #filmsky 📽
unlabelledView post →so meh reminds me of how much I enjoyed Romancing the Stone because the film takes her seriousness as a writer of romance seriously (as I recall it)
unlabelledView post →YES. It's a (wonderfully) trashy Harlequin romance novel sold to dudes as a guy-movie. I have always said this, too! It's in the same genus as OUTLANDER and ROMANCING THE STONE.
unlabelledView post →An example that always comes to mind (and I'm sure some people will disagree) is 2022's "The Lost City" and 1984's "Romancing the Stone" They fundamentally have the same premise, but the "Romancing the Stone" is just a far better ~movie~ overall because it's made better
unlabelledView post →Took a chance and watched Argyle tonight. Should have re-watched Romancing The Stone instead.
unlabelledView post →Romancing the Stone is as good as any Indiana Jones movie, and this is not a slam on the Indiana Jones movies. bsky.app/profile/rvbd...
unlabelledView post →I'm old-school in that I have hundreds of physical media options at my fingertips. Last night's movie: "Romancing the Stone". I actually NEVER saw the original picked up the Blu-Ray double-bill with "Jewel of the Nile" for probably $5 bucks somewhere. Physical media FTW.
unlabelledView post →Romancing the Stone is on 😂 I love this film!
unlabelledView post →It's watching a romantic movie and tends to gets teary. (Romancing the Stone, 1984)
unlabelledView post →“nor does it include homage or reference to the 1984 movie Romancing the Stone.” Thank you for clarifying the elephant in the room.
unlabelledView post →It is true the movie studios in general were funding movies like “Porky’s” for the teen market and Disney felt uncomfortable with the incest subtext. The movie got greenlit when Zemeckis’ “Romancing the Stone” became a hit. And each draft of the script did get better from feedback.
unlabelledView post →Opened the same day as Gremlins! You could have also seen Temple of Doom, Search for Spock, This is Spinal Tap, Streets of Fire, Romancing the Stone...maybe the best movie weekend ever.
unlabelledView post →Karl Urban deserves the kind of vehicles Kurt Russel had in the prime of his career, but that entire budget class of movie basically no longer exists. Like please do a Romancing the Stone but with Karl Urban.
unlabelledView post →Romancing the Stone happened to be one of the movies we had on video at home when I was a kid, for no particular reason that I know of, so yes I’ve seen that movie several dozen times.
unlabelledView post →I enjoyed The Lost City. A very silly movie with very good performances that had a lot more of something like Romancing The Stone in its DNA than modern movies are permitted.
unlabelledView post →For #RomanticMovieTVChallenge by @omacolt.bsky.social .. favourite romantic movie of the 1980s... Romancing the Stone (1984)... A novelist meets true love unexpectedly during her travels to help her kidnapped sister. weegiemidget.wordpress.com/on-films-and...
unlabelledView post →Pick a movie, keep one actor. The rest are Muppets. Romancing the Stone. Keep Danny Devito.
unlabelledView post →There’s also a distinct change in film pacing the happened in the early to mid 80s. Things generally sped up. Like, compare Superman the Movie to something like Back to the Future. Or hell, even Raiders of the Lost Ark to Romancing the Stone, for more apples to apples.
unlabelledView post →I just watched the preview for ARGYLL and blurted out "Romancing the Steel" because it's very ROMANCING THE STONE and also kind of Danielle Steel and it's all an Amber kind of action movie.
unlabelledView post →Came to say Romancing the Stone. Such a gem of a movie. Excellent adventure, smoky sax, Danny Devito. What more can you ask for?
unlabelledView post →Romancing the Stone. I was 8 years old. About 10 minutes into that film I knew - I KNEW - I was going to be a writer. And now I'm writing my first official sex-filled romance novel. That original poster still hangs on my living room wall. (Perks of having a family in the movie business.)
unlabelledView post →Share an 80s movie you will always love. Romancing the Stone. genuinely one of my favorite movies.
unlabelledView post →Movie thoughts: If I were in Romancing the Stone, I wouldn’t end up with Michael Douglas. It would be just my luck to have Danny DeVito’s character show up at my apartment in New York.
unlabelledView post →Age verification? my first in-theatre movie was Gremlins 1984 (i remember trailers for The Goonies and Romancing the Stone)
unlabelledView post →The obscure 1985 sequel to Romancing the Stone, "Jewel of the Nile" sucked. every once in a great while I will watch it but then only to remember I just love the first movie.
unlabelledView post →#NovemberMovieChallenge Day 8 - an author in a movie Joan Wilder - Romancing the Stone #filmsky #moviesky
unlabelledView post →Hearing a podcast discussion of the new film The Roses makes me realize I've always vaguely conflated the following: The War of the Roses (film) The Wars of the Roses (actual English history) The Name of the Rose (novel/film) The Bonfire of the Vanities (novel/film) Romancing the Stone (film)
unlabelledView post →#MayMovieChallenge Day 12 Mudslide Landslide in a movie Romancing The Stone (1984)
unlabelledView post →Radcliffe is tremendous on stage and is very good fun in that Sandra Bullock movie that is a remake of Romancing the Stone with the serial numbers filed off.
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