Romancing the Stone (1984) starring Kathleen Turner, Michael Douglas, Danny DeVito. Directed by Robert Zemeckis. Joan Wilder, reclusive author of romance novels (Turner), is lured to Colombia when she finds out her sister is in trouble. There, she gets on the wrong bus and ends up teamed up with American mercenary Jack Colton (Douglas). Pursued at once by the crooks who are holding her sister (DeVito et. al.) and by the (crooked) authorities, Wilder and Colton flee together through the jungle. It's like she's living one of her own romance novels. Turner and Douglas have pretty good chemistry together on screen, and it's good to see them both looking young and healthy. The script moves along briskly, and the film includes lots of gun play and even a car chase or two. There may be one coincidence too many, but who's nitpicking? The disc offers subtitles in English as well as closed captions. Grade: B
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