Romancing the Stone with Adam Kempenaar & Josh Larsen

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Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Comedy, Film Reviews

4.6 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2020

⏱️ 127 minutes

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Summary

How did Robert Zemeckis go from commercial flops to a career-defining time-travelling trilogy of blank checks? It’s all thanks to his “guarantor” from 1984 - Romancing The Stone, starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner. We invited Filmspotting’s Adam Kempenaar and Josh Larsen to dive into Zemeckis’ first commercial success and how it set the tone for a decade of hits.

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0:00.0	What did you do?
0:22.1	Wake up this morning and say today I'm gonna ruin a podcast!
0:25.7	It's great!
0:27.8	Man's life.
0:28.8	That's great.
0:29.8	That's the lines of man's life.
0:31.4	I feel like I always struggle with Douglas.
0:33.1	I rarely try it.
0:34.9	I feel like I, every time I go, it can't be that hard.
0:37.6	I just clench my jaw, right?
0:39.1	And I'll sound like Michael Douglas.
0:40.9	Doesn't work.
0:41.9	I definitely do not have a Douglas.
0:45.0	I would not know where to begin with a Douglas.
0:47.0	No, I get to.
0:48.7	Is he CNN or what?
0:49.9	He's one of the news channels now, right?
0:51.6	He's not CNN.
0:52.6	Surely this is CNN James Rolgeo?
0:54.6	Oh, he's NBC Nightly News, I think.
0:59.4	Really?
1:00.4	He is, you're right.
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