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Romancing the Stone, the Glossary

Romancing the Stone is a 1984 romantic comedy-adventure film directed by Robert Zemeckis, written by Diane Thomas and produced by Michael Douglas, who also stars in the film alongside Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito.^[1]

83 relations: Academy Award for Best Film Editing, Adventure film, AFI Catalog of Feature Films, Alan Silvestri, Alfonso Arau, American Cinema Editors, Antiquities, Back to the Future, Box Office Mojo, Burt Reynolds, Camp David, Cartagena, Colombia, Christopher Reeve, Clint Eastwood, Cocoon (film), Colin Greenland, Danny DeVito, Dean Cundey, Death Before Dishonor (film), Debra Winger, Diane Thomas, Donn Cambern, Emerald, Empire (magazine), Entertainment Weekly, Evita Muñoz, Fandango Media, Filmsite, Florida Straits (film), Frank Morriss, Gerard Butler, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, Green Ice, High Risk (1981 film), Holland Taylor, Huasca de Ocampo, I Wanna Hold Your Hand (film), Imagine (game magazine), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Jalcomulco, Katherine Heigl, Kathleen Turner, Land Rover series, List of Playboy Playmates of 1981, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, MacGuffin, Malibu, California, Manuel Ojeda, Mary Ellen Trainor, ... Expand index (33 more) »
1984 romantic comedy films
Estudios Churubusco films
Films directed by Robert Zemeckis
Films produced by Michael Douglas

Academy Award for Best Film Editing

The Academy Award for Best Film Editing is one of the annual awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Adventure film

An adventure film is a genre of film.

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AFI Catalog of Feature Films

The AFI Catalog of Feature Films, also known as the AFI Catalog, is an ongoing project by the American Film Institute (AFI) to catalog all commercially-made and theatrically exhibited American motion pictures from the birth of cinema in 1893 to the present.

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Alan Silvestri

Alan Anthony Silvestri (born March 26, 1950) is an American composer and conductor of film and television scores.

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Alfonso Arau

Alfonso Arau Incháustegui (born 11 January 1932) is a Mexican filmmaker and actor.

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American Cinema Editors

Founded in 1950, American Cinema Editors (ACE) is an honorary society of film editors who are voted in based on the qualities of professional achievements, their education of others, and their dedication to editing.

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Antiquities

Antiquities are objects from antiquity, especially the civilizations of the Mediterranean: the Classical antiquity of Greece and Rome, Ancient Persia (Iran), Ancient Egypt and the other Ancient Near Eastern cultures.

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Back to the Future

Back to the Future is a 1985 American science fiction film directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Zemeckis and Bob Gale. Romancing the Stone and Back to the Future are films directed by Robert Zemeckis and films scored by Alan Silvestri.

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Box Office Mojo

Box Office Mojo is an American website that tracks box-office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way.

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Burt Reynolds

Burton Leon Reynolds Jr. (February 11, 1936 – September 6, 2018) was an American actor and icon of 1970s American popular culture.

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Camp David

Camp David is a country retreat for the president of the United States.

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Cartagena, Colombia

Cartagena, known since the colonial era as Cartagena de Indias, is a city and one of the major ports on the northern coast of Colombia in the Caribbean Coast Region, along the Caribbean sea.

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Christopher Reeve

Christopher D'Olier Reeve (September 25, 1952 – October 10, 2004) was an American actor, film director, author, and activist, best known for playing the title character in the film Superman (1978) and its three sequels.

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Clint Eastwood

Clinton Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor and film director.

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Cocoon (film)

Cocoon is a 1985 American science fiction comedy-drama film directed by Ron Howard and written by Tom Benedek from a story by David Saperstein.

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Colin Greenland

Colin Greenland (born 17 May 1954) is a British science fiction writer, whose first story won the second prize in a 1982 Faber & Faber competition.

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Danny DeVito

Daniel Michael DeVito Jr. (born November 17, 1944) is an American actor and filmmaker.

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Dean Cundey

Dean Raymond Cundey, A.S.C. (born March 12, 1946) is an American cinematographer and film director.

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Death Before Dishonor (film)

Death Before Dishonor is a 1987 American action film directed by Terry Leonard.

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Debra Winger

Debra Lynn Winger (born May 16, 1955) is an American actress.

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Diane Thomas

Diane Renee Thomas (January 7, 1946 – October 21, 1985) was an American screenwriter who wrote the 1984 film Romancing the Stone, her only produced screenplay credit.

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Donn Cambern

Donn Cambern (October 9, 1929 – January 18, 2023) was an American film editor with more than three dozen feature film credits.

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Emerald

Emerald is a gemstone and a variety of the mineral beryl (Be3Al2(SiO3)6) colored green by trace amounts of chromium or sometimes vanadium.

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Empire (magazine)

Empire is a British film magazine published monthly by Bauer Media Group.

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Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is an American digital-only entertainment magazine based in New York City, published by Dotdash Meredith, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books, and popular culture.

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Evita Muñoz

Eva María Muñoz Ruíz (November 26, 1936 – August 23, 2016), known professionally as Evita Muñoz "Chachita", was a Mexican actress and comedian.

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Fandango Media, LLC is an American ticketing company that sells movie tickets via their website and their mobile app.

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Filmsite

Filmsite is a film-review website established in 1996 by senior editor and film critic-historian Tim Dirks, and continues to be managed and edited by him for over two decades.

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Florida Straits (film)

Florida Straits is a 1986 made-for-television adventure film that originally aired on HBO.

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Frank Morriss

Frank E. Morriss (September 10, 1927 – July 3, 2013) was a film and television editor with more than 50 film and television program credits dating from 1968.

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Gerard Butler

Gerard James Butler (born 13 November 1969) is a Scottish actor and film producer.

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Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy is a Golden Globe Award that was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951.

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Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

The Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy is a Golden Globe Award that has been awarded annually since 1952 by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA). Romancing the Stone and Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy are best Musical or Comedy Picture Golden Globe winners.

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Green Ice

Green Ice is a 1981 British adventure film starring Ryan O'Neal. Romancing the Stone and Green Ice are films set in Colombia.

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High Risk (1981 film)

High Risk is a 1981 American-British-Mexican adventure heist film directed by Stewart Raffill and stars James Brolin, Lindsay Wagner, Cleavon Little, James Coburn, Ernest Borgnine and Anthony Quinn. Romancing the Stone and High Risk (1981 film) are 1980s Mexican films, American action adventure films and films set in Colombia.

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Holland Taylor

Holland Taylor (born January 14, 1943) is an American actress.

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Huasca de Ocampo

Huasca de Ocampo is a town and municipality of the state of Hidalgo in central Mexico.

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I Wanna Hold Your Hand (film)

I Wanna Hold Your Hand is a 1978 American historical comedy film directed by Robert Zemeckis, written by Zemeckis and Bob Gale, and starring Nancy Allen, Bobby Di Cicco, Marc McClure, Susan Kendall Newman, Theresa Saldana, Eddie Deezen, and Wendie Jo Sperber. Romancing the Stone and i Wanna Hold Your Hand (film) are films directed by Robert Zemeckis.

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Imagine (game magazine)

Imagine (printed under the long title Imagine: Adventure Game Magazine) was a British monthly magazine dedicated to the first edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons and Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game systems published by TSR UK Limited.

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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is a 1984 American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg from a script by Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz, based on a story by George Lucas. Romancing the Stone and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom are 1980s action adventure films, American action adventure films and films about treasure hunting.

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Jalcomulco

Jalcomulco is a municipality in the Mexican state of Veracruz, founded in 1825.

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Katherine Heigl

Katherine Heigl (born November 24, 1978) is an American actress.

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Kathleen Turner

Mary Kathleen Turner (born June 19, 1954) is an American actress.

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Land Rover series

The Land Rover Series I, II, and III, or simply the Land-Rover (commonly referred to as Series Land Rovers, to distinguish them from later models) are compact British off-road vehicles, produced by the Rover Company since 1948, and later by British Leyland.

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List of Playboy Playmates of 1981

The following is a list of Playboy Playmates of 1981.

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Los Angeles Film Critics Association

The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) is an American film critic organization founded in 1975.

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MacGuffin

In fiction, a MacGuffin (sometimes McGuffin) is an object, device, or event that is necessary to the plot and the motivation of the characters, but insignificant, unimportant, or irrelevant in itself.

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Malibu, California

Malibu is a beach city in the Santa Monica Mountains region of Los Angeles County, California, about west of Downtown Los Angeles.

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Manuel Ojeda

Manuel Salvador Ojeda Armenta (4 November 1940 – 11 August 2022) was a Mexican actor.

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Mary Ellen Trainor

Mary Ellen Trainor (July 8, 1952 – May 20, 2015) was an American character actress best known for her roles as LAPD psychiatrist Dr.

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Michael Douglas

Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is an American actor and film producer.

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Military police

Military police (MP) are law enforcement agencies connected with, or part of, the military of a state.

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Motion Picture Sound Editors

Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) is an American professional society of motion picture sound editors founded in 1953.

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Novelization

A novelization (or novelisation) is a derivative novel that adapts the story of a work created for another medium, such as a film, TV series, stage play, comic book, or video game.

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Paul Newman

Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, race car driver, philanthropist, and entrepreneur.

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Raiders of the Lost Ark

Raiders of the Lost Ark is a 1981 American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan, based on a story by George Lucas and Philip Kaufman. Romancing the Stone and Raiders of the Lost Ark are 1980s action adventure films, American action adventure films and films about treasure hunting.

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Robert Zemeckis

Robert Lee Zemeckis (born May 14, 1952) is an American filmmaker.

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Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, film historian, journalist, essayist, screenwriter, and author.

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RogerEbert.com

RogerEbert.com is an American film review website that archives reviews written by film critic Roger Ebert for the Chicago Sun-Times and also shares other critics' reviews and essays.

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Romantic comedy

Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a subgenre of comedy and romance fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount most obstacles.

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Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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San Juan de Ulúa

San Juan de Ulúa, now known as Castle of San Juan de Ulúa, is a large complex of fortresses, prisons and one former palace on an island of the same name in the Gulf of Mexico overlooking the seaport of Veracruz, Mexico.

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Snow Canyon State Park

Snow Canyon State Park is a state park in Utah, located in the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve.

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Sylvester Stallone

Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone (born July 6, 1946) is an American actor and filmmaker.

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Taylor Kitsch

Taylor Kitsch (born April 8, 1981) is a Canadian actor and model.

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Ted White (stuntman)

Alex Bayouth (January 25, 1926 – October 14, 2022), known professionally as Ted White, was an American stuntman and actor who was best known for playing Jason Voorhees in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter.

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The Jewel of the Nile

The Jewel of the Nile is a 1985 American action-adventure romantic comedy film directed by Lewis Teague and produced by Michael Douglas, who also starred in the lead role, reuniting with co-stars Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito, reprising their roles from the 1984 action-adventure film Romancing the Stone. Romancing the Stone and the Jewel of the Nile are 1980s action adventure films, 1980s adventure comedy films, American action adventure films, American adventure comedy films, films about treasure hunting, films about writers, films produced by Michael Douglas and films shot in Utah.

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The Lost City (2022 film)

The Lost City is a 2022 American action-adventure comedy film directed by Aaron and Adam Nee, who co-wrote the screenplay with Oren Uziel and Dana Fox, based on a story by Seth Gordon. Romancing the Stone and the Lost City (2022 film) are American adventure comedy films, films about treasure hunting, films about writers and Jungle adventure films.

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The War of the Roses (film)

The War of the Roses is a 1989 American satirical black comedy film based upon the 1981 novel of the same name by Warren Adler.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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Time (magazine)

Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.

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Time Out (magazine)

Time Out is a global magazine published by Time Out Group.

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Traveller's cheque

A traveller's cheque is a medium of exchange that can be used in place of hard currency.

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Used Cars

Used Cars is a 1980 American satirical black comedy film co-written and directed by Robert Zemeckis. Romancing the Stone and Used Cars are films directed by Robert Zemeckis.

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Veracruz

Veracruz, formally Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave, officially the Estado Libre y Soberano de Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave (Free and Sovereign State of Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico.

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Veracruz (city)

Veracruz, also known as Heroica Veracruz, is a major port city and municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of Veracruz on the Gulf of Mexico and the most populous city in the Mexican state of Veracruz.

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Wall Street (1987 film)

Wall Street is a 1987 American drama film, directed and co-written by Oliver Stone, which stars Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Daryl Hannah, and Martin Sheen. Romancing the Stone and Wall Street (1987 film) are films shot in Utah.

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Whitewater

Whitewater forms in the context of rapids, in particular, when a river's gradient changes enough to generate so much turbulence that air is trapped within the water.

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Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a 1988 American fantasy comedy film directed by Robert Zemeckis from a screenplay written by Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman. Romancing the Stone and Who Framed Roger Rabbit are films directed by Robert Zemeckis and films scored by Alan Silvestri.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romancing_the_Stone

Also known as Jack Colton, Jack T. Colton.

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Romancing the Stone, the Glossary

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See also

1984 romantic comedy films

Estudios Churubusco films

Films directed by Robert Zemeckis

Films produced by Michael Douglas

References