A sheltered romance novelist finds herself in a real-life adventure filled with broad humor and pulpy thrills.
Romantic and crowd-pleasing, with big broad humor. A date-night pick at a brisk pace. Emotionally it carries some weight.
Streaming on Tubi (free).
Some innuendo or implied sex, which is more than most PG titles carry. Beyond that, mild language and a few tense moments.
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Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her abducted sister, so Joan flies to South America to hand it over. But she gets on the wrong bus and winds up hopelessly stranded in the jungle.
Yes. It lands on a happy note.
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