Plot
This is the sequel to "Romancing the Stone" where Jack and Joan have their yacht and easy life...
Release Year: 1985
Rating: 5.9/10 (20,414 voted)
Director:
Lewis Teague
Stars: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito
Storyline This is the sequel to "Romancing the Stone" where Jack and Joan have their yacht and easy life, but are gradually getting bored with each other and this way of life. Joan accepts an invitation to go to some middle eastern country as a guest of the sheik, but there she is abducted and finds her- self involved with the "jewel". Jack decides to rescue her with his new partner Ralph. They all go from one adventure to another... What is the story of this "jewel"?
Writers: Mark Rosenthal, Lawrence Konner
Cast: Michael Douglas
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Jack Colton
Kathleen Turner
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Joan Wilder
Danny DeVito
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Ralph
Spiros Focás
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Omar
Avner Eisenberg
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Jewel
Paul David Magid
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Tarak
Howard Jay Patterson
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Barak
Randall Edwin Nelson
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Karak
Samuel Ross Williams
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Arak
Timothy Daniel Furst
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Sarak
Hamid Fillali
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Rachid
Holland Taylor
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Gloria
Guy Cuevas
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Le Vasseur
Peter DePalma
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Missionary
(as Peter De Palma)
Mark Daly Richards
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Pirate
Taglines:
They're back again...and romancing a brand new stone.
Release Date: 11 December 1985
Filming Locations: Alpes-Maritimes, France
Box Office Details
Budget: $25,000,000
(estimated)
Opening Weekend: $6,645,455
(USA)
(15 December 1985)
Gross: $68,275,764
(USA)
Technical Specs
Runtime:
Did You Know?
Trivia:
The Arabic words in the climactic "stage" scene are actually the Arabic names of Kirk Douglas's movies [rumour].
Goofs:
Continuity:
At the beginning of the movie, the amount of zinc oxide on Joan's nose changes with each camera angle.
Quotes:
[Omar has put Jack and Joan in a deathtrap copied from one of Joan's own books]
Jack Colton:
So how'd they get out? Joan Wilder:
What? Jack Colton:
In "The Savage Secret". Joan Wilder:
Oh. Um... Jesse had a knife hidden in his boot. You wouldn't happen to have a knife, would you? Jack Colton:
I'm not even wearing underwear.
User Review
Great replay value
Rating:
There are two kinds of good movies: The movies that, because of one or
more
characteristics, win grammys, oscars, and much lauding by critics.
Gladiator
comes to mind. Great cinematography, plot, acting.
Then, there are movies, that, although they don't win critical acclaim,
seem
to find their way onto my TV much more than an oscar-winner. Princess
Bride
is a good one. Timothy Dalton's bid for a James Bond movie as well. And
Jewel of the Nile.
Jewel of the Nile is not a stellar specimen of a film in any way. There
are
movies that are better filmed, better acted, better scripted, ones that
don't have as many plot holes, whatever the comparison. It doesn't leave
you
in a state of deep pondering or leave you not wanting to go to bed for
fear
of your life. But it is a movie that I, and my family, put in when we want
to watch something light, uninvolved, comical, and with actors we like to
see. It's something to watch on a Sunday afternoon, over whatever sorry
excuse for lunch I decide to have, and to go to sleep on the couch to.
It's
a good movie to put in and listen to while doing housework, homework, or
another activity. It is full of great one-liners that find their way into
conversation as well as a severe cheesiness factor in some parts(which
isn't
a bad thing).
Bottom line, I guess, is this: You will find movies that are of superior
quality to this one. Ones that you will feel outweigh this one in every
single way. All the same, I would highly recommend adding this movie to
your
cabinet (but purchase and view Romancing the Stone first) because every
once
in a while, you'll come back to the Nile.
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