The success of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" spawned a host of adventure capers, but few enjoyed as much popularity as this lighthearted story about a romance writer who finds herself drawn into an outlandish plot that could have been ripped from the pages of one of her novels.

Loveless recluse Joan Wilder lives out her romantic dreams in her fiction, but always hopes she'll one day meet a man who can match up to her make-believe hero. That fantasy becomes a reality when she flies to Colombia to rescue her kidnapped sister and meets fortune hunter Jack Colton, who agrees to help her - for a price.

Mud slides, raging rapids, and trigger-happy drug dealers are just a few of the obstacles Joan and Jack must face on the way to recovering a priceless emerald. It doesn't take long for Joan to succumb to Jack's manly charms - but can he be trusted?

Filled with twists, stunts, and witty banter, "Romancing the Stone" is a breathlessly enjoyable action comedy that made Michael Douglas a star and Robert Zemeckis one of Hollywood's most bankable directors. Turner, so sexy in "Body Heat", is surprisingly credible as the mousy author, while Danny DeVito is on typically scurrilous form as a small time low-life mixed up in the mayhem.

Douglas and Turner reunited with DeVito for "The Jewel of the Nile", a lacklustre sequel, and "The War of the Roses", a caustic marital satire. But neither film could replicate the winning formula behind "Romancing the Stone".

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