Romancing the Stone is an 1984 American action-adventure film, and has many elements that might categorize it as a romantic comedy. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, it stars Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito. The film was followed by a 1985 sequel, The Jewel of the Nile.

The movie was a respectable hit and earned over $114 million worldwide in box-office receipts and $36 million in video rentals. This film also helped launch Turner to stardom, reintroduced Douglas to the public as a capable leading man, and gave Zemeckis his first box office success.

Synopsis

Joan Wilder (Kathleen Turner) is a romance novelist who, at the beginning of the film, has just finished her latest novel "The Savage Secret". The next morning, she receives a package from her dead brother-in-law Eduardo, who was recently murdered and dismembered. Her widowed sister, Elaine (Mary Ellen Trainor) calls Joan and begs her to come to Colombia with the package; Elaine has been kidnapped, and the package is the ransom.