Romancing the Stone (1984) poster
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Romancing the Stone

RomanceComedyAdventure

Directed by Robert Zemeckis

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

237 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy, TMDB reviews) · newest Oct 27, 2026 · last updated Oct 28, 2026 · How this works

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Romancing the Stone is a 1984 romance comedy adventure film, directed by Robert Zemeckis, starring Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito.

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  • Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.socialBluesky · May 23, 2025

    thinking 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

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  • Hallow’s Books, Movies, and TV @hallowshaunt.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 18, 2025

    Any fans of the 1984 movie Romancing the Stone?

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  • Brian Smith @theactualbrian.bsky.socialBluesky · May 31, 2026

    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.

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  • Lee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 11, 2026

    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.

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  • 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓛𝓾𝓷𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓬 𝓥𝓲𝓫𝓮𝓼 🦋 @thelunaticvibes.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 25, 2026

    Tonight's movie: Romancing The Stone. Featuring the wonderful Kathleen Turner and the great Michael Douglas. Love these movies!

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  • Fritz @fritzholz.bsky.socialBluesky · May 23, 2025

    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...

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  • me @camoflage.bsky.socialBluesky · May 23, 2025

    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

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  • Cinefeast33 (demon version) 📽📺📚 @cinefeast33.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 12, 2024

    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 📽🎥🎞🎬

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  • Cinefeast33 (demon version) 📽📺📚 @cinefeast33.bsky.socialBluesky · May 14, 2026

    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 📽

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  • Horror & Coffee @foundfootagefan.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 13, 2026

    Alternative movie poster of the day 🎥😍 Romancing the Stone (1984) By Nick Charge

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  • Danny Deraney @dannyderaney.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 5, 2024

    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.

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  • TCM Party @tcmparty.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 9, 2025

    💫 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

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  • Alethea Kontis, Witch 🖤 @aletheakontis.comBluesky · May 6, 2026

    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 😎

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  • Cinema Strikes Back @cinemastrikesback.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 19, 2025

    #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.

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  • Mario Bava's A Jay of Blood @jaycoyle.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 27, 2024

    Been absolute years. #NowWatching Romancing the Stone.

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  • Otis Redfoot @otisredfoot.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 19, 2026

    People don't talk about Romancing the Stone nearly enough and that's a shame because it was a really fun movie.

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  • Tess Sharpe @sharpegirl.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 21, 2024

    Sometimes I think about how I asked my publisher to give me a cover that looks like a 70-80's action movie poster ala Romancing the Stone and Indiana Jones and they DID and I just sigh happily. I very rarely have cover vision, but when I do I get very detailed and then I got the perfect artist!

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  • Katy Jakes @katyjakes.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 24, 2025

    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

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  • mal vSpooky.0 👻🎃🦇 @malorienilson.comBluesky · Dec 31, 2024

    I don't care what anyone says, Romancing the Stone is a perfect film.

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  • Horror & Coffee @foundfootagefan.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 18, 2025

    Alternative movie poster of the day 🎥😍 Romancing the Stone (1984) By Nick Charge

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  • Rex Masters @mastersrex.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 6, 2026

    Tonight’s family movie is the 1984 adventure/comedy Romancing the Stone Starring Kathleen Turner, Michael Douglas and Danny DeVito. A fun movie

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  • Boo London @cmdrsue.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 23, 2026

    Having a bad pain flare day so watching Romancing the Stone as the evening movie to distract me.

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  • Cinema Strikes Back @cinemastrikesback.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 19, 2025

    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...

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  • TCM Party @tcmparty.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 9, 2025

    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

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  • orinoco boo @nocontroller.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 22, 2023

    Romancing The Stone aka no bitches the movie idk ive never seen it

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  • Rex Masters @mastersrex.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 30, 2026

    Tonight’s family movie is the 1984 adventure/comedy/romance movie Romancing The Stone.

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  • Amanda🌹🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦💙 @amandawrites.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 27, 2026

    #MarchMovieChallenge #Moviesky #Filmsky 3/27: Somebody dances to Latin music in a movie Romancing the Stone youtu.be/7ntjjX6Mlng?...

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  • CD London @claredocherty1.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 24, 2024

    Watching one of my favourite 80's movie on tv 📺 Romancing The Stone 🥰 #Filmsky #Eighties #MichaelDouglas #KathleenTurner #DannyDevito

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  • CD London @claredocherty1.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 1, 2024

    I now wanna watch another 80's movie, I'm thinking 🎬 • Batteries Not Included • Cocoon • Return To Oz • Turner And Hooch • Romancing The Stone

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  • Dave Mueller @dave-mueller.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 26, 2026

    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.

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  • Francine is Dead 👻💀🎃 @brittlemachine.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 29, 2026

    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!!

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  • Cinefeast33 (demon version) 📽📺📚 @cinefeast33.bsky.socialBluesky · May 14, 2025

    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 📽

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  • Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 21, 2025

    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)

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  • Josh Dobbin @joshdobbin.bsky.socialBluesky · May 7, 2026

    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.

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  • Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 19, 2024

    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

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  • Jason @doubtfulguest.bsky.socialBluesky · May 23, 2024

    Took a chance and watched Argyle tonight. Should have re-watched Romancing The Stone instead.

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  • BadgerNoonan @badgernoonan.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 10, 2026

    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...

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  • Ryan Germann @ryangermann.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 27, 2026

    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.

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  • Nadine Matheson @nadinematheson.comBluesky · May 24, 2025

    Romancing the Stone is on 😂 I love this film!

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  • The Picard Maneuver @[email protected]Lemmy · Jul 2, 2024

    It's watching a romantic movie and tends to gets teary. (Romancing the Stone, 1984)

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  • Mooch @cachiporra.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 20, 2026

    ROMANCING THE STONE (1984, DVD, #film) A perfect movie, the single most rewatchable flick on the VHS shelf, and the finest artistic achievement of straight culture. They don't make 'em like this anymore, mostly because the screenwriter's drunk boyfriend killed her. Time to maricón: 58 minutes

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  • Gavin @detroitstylepizza.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 17, 2026

    “nor does it include homage or reference to the 1984 movie Romancing the Stone.” Thank you for clarifying the elephant in the room.

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  • How Bowers @goawaygreen.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 9, 2026

    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.

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  • Mack to the Future @jimmyrabbitte.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 8, 2026

    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.

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  • Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 3, 2026

    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.

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  • Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.comBluesky · May 24, 2025

    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.

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  • Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.socialBluesky · May 9, 2025

    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.

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  • Realweegiemidget Reviews Films, TV, Books and More @realweegiemidget.eurosky.socialBluesky · Feb 19, 2025

    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...

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  • Comicfoil @comicfoil.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 5, 2024

    Pick a movie, keep one actor. The rest are Muppets. Romancing the Stone. Keep Danny Devito.

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  • Cassandra Miller’s Monster Chiller Horror Theater—AWOOOO @tiptransformed.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 21, 2024

    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.

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  • 🎃 The Wicker Amber 🎃 @elementalamber.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 6, 2024

    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.

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  • TheColonel @[email protected]Lemmy · Jul 13, 2023

    Came to say Romancing the Stone. Such a gem of a movie. Excellent adventure, smoky sax, Danny Devito. What more can you ask for?

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  • Alethea Kontis, Witch 🖤 @aletheakontis.comBluesky · Oct 5, 2026

    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.)

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  • Effie 🐊 villain kisser @simplyeffie.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 4, 2026

    Share an 80s movie you will always love. Romancing the Stone. genuinely one of my favorite movies.

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  • Opinionated Eurasian @opinioneurasian.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 30, 2026

    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.

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  • Tess,, dis agreeable grunt @brandysaurian.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 10, 2026

    Age verification? my first in-theatre movie was Gremlins 1984 (i remember trailers for The Goonies and Romancing the Stone)

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  • Esoteric Collector @vcreedsabretooth.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 21, 2025

    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.

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  • Anita 🎬🎥📺🎶📚 @gemini53.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 8, 2025

    #NovemberMovieChallenge Day 8 - an author in a movie Joan Wilder - Romancing the Stone #filmsky #moviesky

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  • Katherine Duke @katducduk.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 29, 2025

    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)

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  • omacolt.bsky.social @omacolt.bsky.socialBluesky · May 13, 2025

    #MayMovieChallenge Day 12 Mudslide Landslide in a movie Romancing The Stone (1984)

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