Réalisation:
Robert ZemeckisPhotographie:
Dean CundeyMusique:
Alan SilvestriActeurs·trices:
Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Zack Norman, Alfonso Arau, Holland Taylor, Mary Ellen Trainor, Manuel Ojeda, Eve Smith, Joe Nesnow (plus)VOD (2)
Résumés(1)
Romancière à succès, Joan Wilder vit paisiblement à New York jusqu’au jour où elle reçoit un appel à l’aide émanant de sa sœur : elle est séquestrée en Colombie. Les kidnappeurs cherchent le fameux diamant vert découvert par son mari. Et voilà Joan dans le premier avion pour la Colombie. Perdue en pleine jungle, Joan fait la connaissance de Jack Colton. un baroudeur ringard qui lui offre son aide contre des espèces sonnantes et trébuchantes. Ce sera pour Jack et Joan le début d’une aventure incroyable, aussi dangereuse que palpitante. (texte officiel du distributeur)
(plus)Critiques (3)
Romancing the Stone holds the opportunistic trump card in that the whole shoddiness of the plot simply comes from the fact that it's deliberately a "romance/adventure novel for women", which was also written by a waitress (the writers listed here are just post-production rewrites, the actual screenwriter Diane Thomas died two years after the film was released and thus this was her only script). The problem is, Michael Douglas handles one role perfectly, that of a corrupt city bastard; and yet he doesn't quite work in everything else. The classic post-colonial romance about how a dangerous exotic country makes a romantic backdrop for two white people isn't such a problem in the end (at least if you're white and you just grew up on these stories), the problem is when I see this small-town boy brandishing a machete or shouting Travolta-like in a white jumpsuit and I'm supposed to feel like I belong in that environment. It's a shame, too, because of Kathleen Turner, who is top-notch here and she shoulders almost all the functional comedy.
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A dashing Michael Douglas, the likeable Kathleen Turner, and Robert Zemeckis at the start of his amazing career. The great reviews didn't lie and I thoroughly enjoyed one of the most successful and funny adventure films ever made. Simply a classic that our TV stations can always rely on...
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The 80s were marked in the realm of light film entertainment by an effort to imitate the enormous success of adventure comedies about Indiana Jones, which were set in exotic locales and shamelessly drew from pulp literature and fallen genres. Romancing the Stone is a typical example of this wave. Thanks to the cast, especially the presence of the then extremely popular Kathleen Turner and the star Michael Douglas, the film remains watchable even today, although it is nowhere near the Indiana Jones series. The screenplay is average, the humor has dull moments, and above all, after all these years, some films don't have the same impact as they did when they were made. Overall impression: 55%.
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