The movie stays on a consistently light wavelength even when death and sudden violence occurs. She plays a self-loathing romance author and he's her hunky and clueless cover model, and they both get into a treasure-hunting escapade and chased by scary men with guns thanks to a crazed rich kid (Daniel Radcliffe) looking for a titular lost city of yore to bolster his own rep.

The Lost City mostly succeeds thanks to the winning chemistry between Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum. It's a new spin on Romancing the Stone and as long as the leads are charming and the movie is fun, I have no problem with rehashing this formula. Rating: PG-13 (Partial Nudity|Language|Some Bloody Images|Suggestive Material|Violence) Determined to prove he can be a hero in real life and not just on the pages of her books, Alan sets off to rescue her. While on tour promoting her new book with Alan, Loretta gets kidnapped by an eccentric billionaire who hopes she can lead him to an ancient city's lost treasure from her latest story.

Reclusive author Loretta Sage writes about exotic places in her popular adventure novels that feature a handsome cover model named Alan.

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