The Jewel of the Nile

Year: 1985

Country: USA

Tagline: When the going gets tough, the tough get going.  »

Plot: This sequel to 1984's rip-snorting romantic-adventure, Romancing the Stone, is a moderately entertaining tale that pales by comparison to its predecessor. Romance novelist Kathleen Turner and retired soldier-of-fortune Michael Douglas return as a now-complacent couple. Bored with life on a yacht, they find excitement thrust upon them when she accepts a speaking engagement in the Middle East. Once there, she is abducted and finds herself involved with the "jewel" everyone is chasing. Douglas teams up once more with Danny DeVito to rescue his love. Less charming and more predictable than the original, this suffers for one simple reason: the characters have nowhere to go. In the original story we watched Turner blossom from timid storyteller to lusty adventuress. In this flick she is too much like all the other action adventure babes we've seen before. --Rochelle O'GormanNovelist Joan Wilder and her adventurer boyfriend Jack Colton are gradually getting bored with each other and this way of life. But when Joan is abducted and finds her- self involved with the "jewel", Jack must elude his embittered ex-partner as he tries to rescue Joan from the clutches of a treacherous Arab leader.

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