Why was this movie so important to me? Because this was the zeitgeist of the moments of the 1960s and 1970s when I came of age. It was crazy but it was the world I grew up in. It typified a time in life that people the age of myself and Michael Douglas came up in. He is now 82 and I'm 78 but we are all still of the same era with similar experiences in many ways. So, this movie typified a point of view held by many young men of this era of trying to get ahead any way that they could in an unfriendly world.
One of the more interesting things I learned today is that Danny DeVito was Michael Douglas' room mate as a young man on the East Coast so they were friends way before Romancing the Stone(1984)
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Romancing the Stone
PG
1984 ‧ Adventure/Comedy ‧ 1h 46m
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