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Director:
Writers:
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Release Date:
11 December 1985 (USA) more
Tagline:
When the going gets tough, the tough get going. more
Plot:
This is the sequel to "Romancing the Stone" where Jack and Joan have their yacht and easy life, but... more | add synopsis
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New Remakes: 'Romancing the Stone' and 'Overboard'
 (From Cinematical. 8 December 2009, 10:02 AM, PST)

Turner Wins London Stage Award
 (From WENN. 28 November 2006)

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A Good Movie To Watch On A Boring Night more (45 total)

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Runtime:
106 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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The actors playing the tribesmen Arak, Barak, Karak, Sarak and Tarak were the members of the juggling troupe the Flying Karamazov Brothers. more
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Continuity: When Ralph realizes that he is standing on coals, he turns to his left and starts to walk. A closeup of his feet shows him turning to the right. more
Quotes:
Omar: Jack is dead.
Joan Wilder: Don't be ridiculous! Jack would never die without telling me.
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11 out of 13 people found the following comment useful.
A Good Movie To Watch On A Boring Night, 25 June 2005
7/10
Author: Marvin Cohn (drdos43@yahoo.com) from San Antonio, TX

I have given this movie a 7/10 because, taken on its own merits, it is just a delightful movie to watch. It's funny, although the slapstick sometimes is a little over done; but good wins out over evil, and leaves you satisfied at its conclusion. It reminds me of the "On the Road" movies made by Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and Dorothy Lamour during the forties, but with better, if not sometimes outlandish, special effects and chases (e.g., the F-16 chase) and just as many, if not more, one liners.

However, the movie is more than just comedy. It pits secular evil against a spiritual goodness (the Jewel), albeit a spiritual goodness which on the surface seem naive and comic...but which, in reality, achieves its goals through that apparent naivty. That is a serious overtone which many of the previous comments on the movie seem to have overlooked. The Jewel does not perform miracles, but his presence and comic actions create an aura of the miraculous.

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