Romancing the Hot Stone by Moctezuma Johnson

She then receives a frantic phone call from her sister Elaine, Eduardo's widow. Returning to her apartment, Joan finds it ransacked.

While she is gone, a man tries to break into her apartment and is discovered by her apartment supervisor, whom he kills. Irwin, that contains a map, sent by her recently murdered brother-in-law, Eduardo. On the way she is handed a letter by her neighbor, Mrs. After finishing her latest novel, Joan leaves her apartment to meet her editor, Gloria. Joan Wilder is a successful, but lonely, romance novelist in New York City. A sequel, The Jewel of the Nile, was released in December 1985. Romancing the Stone was released on March 30, 1984, to positive reviews from critics and earned over $115 million worldwide at the box office. Alan Silvestri, who would collaborate with Zemeckis on his later films, composed the score. Zemeckis was eventually dismissed from Cocoon after an early screening of Romancing the Stone failed to further impress studio executives.

Zemeckis, who at the time was developing Cocoon, liked Thomas's screenplay and offered to direct but 20th Century Fox initially declined, citing the commercial failure of his first two films I Wanna Hold Your Hand and Used Cars. Thomas wrote the screenplay in 1979, as the only one in her lifetime. The film follows a romance novelist who must venture beyond her New York City comfort zone to Colombia in order to save her sister from criminals who are holding her for ransom as they search for a priceless treasure. Romancing the Stone is a 1984 action- adventure romantic comedy film directed by Robert Zemeckis, written by Diane Thomas and produced by Michael Douglas, who also starred in the film alongside co-stars Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito.

Romancing the Hot Stone by Moctezuma Johnson