Romancing the Stone / Jewel of the Nile :: Education by Design Store

Customer Reviews

Great

2008-04-14
I really enjoyed the Romancing The Stone movie but Jewel of the Nile was pretty flat in comparison. Still a great combo for the movie archives at home though.

romancing a stone/jewel of the nile

2008-02-08
Always enjoyed these movies, hadn't seen them on the market in years, happy to get both together. Thanx

What happen Amazon??

2008-01-18
First the box set was very bad the movie Jewel of the nile wasnt play and play very slow. After i returned amazon gift me a new box set(new??) first was open very bad, and the booklets inside was missing from romacing. Well its the first that happen, with amazon. Hope not a second.

Wonderful Seller!!!

2008-01-15
I got the movie on time and still in package, THANK YOU!!
The movie works wonderful too!
-this was a gift

PERFECT!!

2007-11-17
Excellent product, just as I remembered watching when I was a child. Shipped quickly, and I would definitely use this seller again!!!

2 great movies together

2007-03-11
ROMANCING THE STONE SPECIAL EDITION and JEWEL OF THE NILE SPECIAL EDITION are new releases of these hit comic adventures starring Michael Douglas KathleenTurner and Danny DeVito with never-before-seen deleted scenes and featurettes. The titles are available as a slipcased giftset for $29.98 & $45.98.Disk 1: Romancing The Stone Special EditionDisk 2: Jewel of The NileFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE UPC: 024543267003 Manufacturer No: 2236700

80s nostalgia

2007-02-04
These 2 films are 2 of the most nostalgic films for me from the mid-1980s. It had been a long time since I watched them, but they remain as delightful today as they did when I first saw them on VHS in the 80s.

Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner portray a pair of quasi-lovers thrown into rather unpredictable circumstances. Danny Devito plays a loveable bumbling bad guy who is out to convince himself that he really IS a bad guy.

The DVDs contain special features which interview the stars today and all 3 reminisce about the making of both films. The story about how the set-prop of the F-16 nearly caused an international incident is comical. There was just one downside to the interviews, and that was that Kathleen Turner (who SIZZLED in the 80s!) has not aged well @ all. I would have never recognized her. Sadly, I believe Danny Devito has aged more gracefully than she has.

If you grew up in the 80s, I would highly recommend that you pick up this DVD set to re-discover why we all loved Kathleen & Mike way back then. If you're young enough that you were not alive when the movies came out in the theatre, then you're in for a big treat. These are 2 of the funnest adventure movies ever made!

Great to see an old favorite

2007-01-03
It was great to see an old favorite on DVD. The bonus materials were great and to see both of the main characters today was great!

Romancing the Stone / Jewel of the Nile

2006-11-05
I have loved these two movies since I was a little girl and it is so nice to be able to watch them again and again now that they are on DVD. Thank you so much!!!

Product of the Indiana Jones craze; but not just another knockoff

2006-09-18
This film really took me back. My mother took me to see it for the first time in the cinema when I was twelve years old. The last time I saw it was on VHS in the late 80's. When I recently viewed the special edition, a whole lot of old memories came flooding back. The film obviously aimed for the Raiders of the Lost Ark crowd with its high-adventure sequences, (Indiana Jones was one of the hottest properties around at the time) but ended up being its own animal before all was said and done, becoming more a romantic comedy than an action-adventure film. This film is something special because as a twelve-year-old who hated all that kissy-stuff I still loved this movie, and to this day I still don't like romantic comedies, but I still love this movie. The story is about a lonely romance novelist who travels to Columbia to bring a map to two kidnappers who have her sister. Along the way she meets Jack T. Colton, a drifter who agrees to take her to meet the kidnappers for $350 some American. Of course, he manages to convince her she should go after the treasure to which the map points (El Corazon, the said "stone" of the title) and a number of misadventures follow. The sequel is almost as good, but added the element of the supernatural, albeit briefly. The bottom line is this: If you like the Indiana Jones films, you'll probably enjoy this. If you've never seen this movie, give it a try.