
She's a girl from the big city. He's a reckless soldier of fortune. For a fabulous treasure, they share an adventure no one could imagine... or survive.
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.
- 6.8
- 1984
- Released
- 1h 46m

Michael Douglas
Jack T. Colton
Kathleen Turner
Joan Wilder
Danny DeVito
Ralph
Zack Norman
Ira
Alfonso Arau
Juan
Manuel Ojeda
Zolo
Holland Taylor
Gloria
Mary Ellen Trainor
Elaine
Eve Smith
Mrs. Irwin
Joe Nesnow
Super
José Chávez
Santos
Evita Muñoz 'Chachita'
Hefty Woman
Camillo García
Bus Driver
Rodrigo Puebla
Bad Hombre
Paco Morayta
Hotel Clerk
Jorge Zamora
Maitre'D
Kymberly Herrin
Angelina
Ted White
Grogan
Manuel E. Santiago
Vendor
Ron Silver
Vendor
Vince Deadrick Sr.
Zolo's Men
Jimmy Medearis
Zolo's Men
Jeff Ramsey
Zolo's Men
Lorna Lable
Vendor
Jos Laniado
Juan Alvarez (uncredited)
Released
en
$10,000,000.00
$86,572,238.00
- #airplane
- #smuggling (contraband)
- #chase
- #kidnapping
- #crocodile
- #anti hero
- #treasure hunt
- #treasure map
- #betrayal
- #marijuana
- #jungle
- #author
- #drug lord
- #south america
- #double cross
- #archaeologist
- #novelist
- #jewel
- #opposites attract
- #archeology
- #soldier of fortune
- #colombia
- #romance books
- #adventure
- #romantic
- #excited
Reviews

**_Goofy escapades in the jungles of Latin America with Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas_** A writer of romantic adventure in Manhattan (Turner) goes to Columbia to save her sister, who’s been kidnapped by shady cousins (Danny DeVito and Zack Norman). She meets an exotic bird smuggler (Douglas) who helps her evade a corrupt colonel (Alfonso Arau) and his military police. “Romancing the S

I guess I was a bit more impressed with the leads in this movie than the other reviewer here, for I think they held up their end of a story that is, if anything, even more of a take-off on action movies that the Raider franchise. It is fluff, of course, with odd violence offsetting what is a rather gentle adventure. Good luck finding it on one of the streaming services out there. It is for sale

This film does make you realise just how good Harrison Ford was in "Indiana Jones" (also 1984) and how good Danny DeVito is in this - but as far as Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner go, well they are really pretty mediocre. He is "Jack", the dashing rogue who ends out helping slushy fiction writer "Joan" through the Colombian jungle in search of her kidnapped sister - something about a treasure











