Film Review – Romancing the Stone

Romancing the Stone tells the tale of one woman’s love affair with a lump of granite. Katie Holmes stars as a movie starlet lost in the Amazon basin. After three days walking and insane through hunger, she stumbles across a satisfyingly smooth piece of granite about eight inches wide. Instantly smitten, she sets about trying to woo it.

There are no prizes for guessing how this film turns out. This is cinema-by-numbers. Holmes naively assumes that she will win the rock over almost instantly, oblivious to its lack of sentience. She is soon disappointed, but raises her game. Still the granite spurns her and she ends up using every trick in the book to try and win it over.

Finally, having given up for good, she lets the act drop and becomes herself. Unsurprisingly, the rock finds this attractive and all ends happily. Romancing the Stone is only different on the surface. Underneath, this film will seem very familiar to any viewer.