Overview:
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.| Status: | Released (1984-03-30) |
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| Awards: | Nominated for 1 Oscar. 8 wins & 7 nominations total |
| BoxOffice: | $76,572,238 |
| Screen: | Diane Thomas |
| Productions: | SLM Production Group, Nina Saxon Film Design, El Corazon Producciones S.A., 20th Century Fox |
| Production Countries: | United States of America, Mexico |
| Spoken Languages: | Français, English, Español |
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Casts
- 3392: Michael Douglas - Jack T. Colton
- 3391: Kathleen Turner - Joan Wilder
- 518: Danny DeVito - Ralph
- 57312: Zack Norman - Ira
- 22767: Alfonso Arau - Juan
- 236686: Manuel Ojeda - Zolo
- 11318: Holland Taylor - Gloria
Crews
- 57310: Diane Thomas - Screenplay - Writing
- 12419: Frank Morriss - Editor - Editing
- 24: Robert Zemeckis - Director - Directing
- 8847: Donn Cambern - Editor - Editing
- 1060: Dean Cundey - Director of Photography - Camera
- 3392: Michael Douglas - Producer - Production
- 57307: Treva Silverman - Producer - Production
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Reviews
CinemaSerf
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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 slush ....
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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 offsettin ....
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