From the opening sequence in Romancing the Stone-- Romance novelist Joan Wilder finishes her latest novel. About the actress who plays Joan, Andrew Sarris wrote in The Village Voice, "One might say that a star is born when one begins mentally casting her for everything in sight. So it is for me with Kathleen Turner at this moment in film history." Screenplay by Diane Thomas, produced by (also starring) Michael Douglas, directed by Robert Zemeckis, 1984.
