The movie follows Joan Wilder, a lonely romance novelist in New York City as she flies to South America where she must trek through the Colombian jungle with a fortune-hunting mercenary in search of her missing sister.
14 January 1943, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
17 November 1944, Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA
19 April 1928, Havana, Cuba
2 July 1946, New York City, New York, USA
25 September 1944, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
8 August 1932, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
11 January 1932, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
2 October 1957, Santa Barbara County, California, USA
13 March 1929, San Diego de La Union, Guanajuato, Mexico
12 June 1916, Mexico
31 August 1905, DeLand, Florida, USA
8 July 1952, Chicago, Illinois, USA
26 November 1936, Orizaba, Veracruz, Mexico
19 June 1954, Springfield, Missouri, USA
4 November 1946, Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, Mexico
25 January 1926, Texas, USA
April 04, 2014
Turner is terrific, Douglas is fine and the action is slam-bang. Add lots of laughs and it all works out just right.
June 24, 2006
The script is sharp and funny, the direction sure-footed on both the comedy and action fronts, and the whole thing adds up to rather more concerted fun than Indiana Jones' flab-ridden escapade in the Temple of Doom.
October 23, 2004
After all the Raiders rip-offs, it's fun to find an adventure film that deserves the comparison, that has the same spirit and sense of humor.
February 06, 2008
Turner is like a lot of unwitting screen heroines ahead of her, guaranteed that her drab existence is about to be transformed -- probably by a man, preferably handsome and adventurous.
May 20, 2003
An elaborately produced, mostly charmless adventure-comedy that intends to make fun of a kind of romantic fiction that's one step removed from what the movie is all about.
January 02, 2011
Action, romance, sharp dialog; best for teens.
July 14, 2010
Between Michael Douglas' mullet, a synthesizer heavy score, and Kathleen Turner shining in her blink and you missed it prime, Zemeckis' movie is truly time capsule worthy.
March 31, 2014
This may be a lark, but grown-ups need those too and the lack of pandering to teenage sensibilities helps it stand apart from other adventure films of the era.
April 04, 2014
In this cracking jungle-set treasure hunt, director Robert Zemeckis spices up a deliberately old-fashioned matinée adventure with tongue-in-cheek gags, unpredictably clever touches and top-of-the-range action.
June 29, 2010
A grand example of the rarest combination of adventure, humor, and sexual chemistry which all crackle along with abandon.
February 06, 2008
Director Robert Zemeckis displays such dazzling cinematic know-how that it's genuinely depressing when this 1984 film falls off into the usual self-ridicule.
April 04, 2014
The filmmakers have devised some clever twists on the earlier films they recall, and they reserve a good share of the derring-do for their heroine, who's a refreshingly far cry from the helpless ladies-in-distress of old.
