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Podcast: FRIDAY FAMILY FILM NIGHT
Episode: Friday Family Film Night: ROMANCING THE STONE review
Description: In which the Mister and Monsters join me in reviewing ROMANCING THE STONE (1984), from director Robert Zemeckis and screenplay by Diane Thomas. The film is a romantic adventure comedy about Joan Wilder (Kathleen Turner), a timid but successful romance novelist who is forced to leave her quiet life in New York to travel to the Colombian jungle to rescue her kidnapped sister. Her only clue is a cryptic treasure map, and she soon teams up with Jack T. Colton (Michael Douglas), a rugged, cynical American mercenary and bird smuggler, who agrees to guide her for a price. As they n...