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Genres:
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Action /
Adventure /
Comedy /
Romance /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Lewis Teague
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Actors:
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Spiros Focás,
Avner Eisenberg,
Paul David Magid,
Howard Jay Patterson,
Randall Edwin Nelson,
Samuel Ross Williams,
Timothy Daniel Furst,
Hamid Fillali,
Guy Cuevas,
Peter DePalma,
Mark Daly Richards,
Michael Douglas,
Kathleen Turner,
Danny DeVito,
Holland Taylor
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Duration:
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106 min.
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Rating:
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(5.8/10)88
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Plot Summary:
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An fray-swollen sequel to the popular Romancing the Stone. Novelist Joan Wilder and her brave boyfriend Jack Colton are sailing in the Mediterranean, when the writer is asked to ghost the biography of Eastern potentate Omar. The lovers become embroiled in another reckless escapade, in search of an even more precious stone than the cool emerald 'El Corazon' - the mysterious 'Pearl of the Nile'...
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Jewel of the Nile, The
Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner keep the chemistry fizzing in this only slightly lack lustre follow up to 80s blockbuster Romancing The Stone
An almost inevitable follow-up to the hugely successful Romancing the Stone has Douglas and Turner reprising their respective roles as mercenary adventurer and frustrated romantic novelist.
It is formulaic and not entirely successful; part of what made the original work was Turner's development from mousy dreamer to action heroine and, once established as such, it is not easy to accept a character relapse. De Vito is superfluous - just along for the ride - but there are just enough pithy jokes, neat stunts and undoubted chemistry between the two leads to make it passable entertainment.
Jewel of the Nile, The
This sequel to Romancing the Stone re-teams stars Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito, and does so without falling into too varied of the customary sequel pitfalls (making the that having been said flick picture show over again, for illustration). It starts a few months after Douglas whisked Turner off on his dream sailboat at the end of the first motion picture, but she has already befit bored with all the lovey-dovey accouterments and jumps at the unforeseen of hitting the enquiry hang back on one occasion again, at odds with Douglas but determined to get even as he chases after a gem called the Jewel of the Nile, with DeVito in warm up pursuit. The three leads clearly oblige fun, and the action and natty one-liners come thick and intemperate, making th...
Jewel of the Nile, The
The d‚nouement of Romancing the Stone found the winsome team of Turner and Douglas sailing misguided down a Manhattan avenue in...
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