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.
| Production | Treva Silverman | Producer |
| Editing | Donn Cambern | Editor |
| Camera | Dean Cundey | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Diane Thomas | Screenplay |
| Editing | Frank Morriss | Editor |
| Directing | Robert Zemeckis | Director |
| Production | Michael Douglas | Producer |
| Sound | Alan Silvestri | Music |
| Production | Jack Brodsky | Co-Producer |
| Production | Karen Rea | Casting |
| Art | Enrique Estévez | Set Decoration |
| Camera | Ronald Woodward | Key Grip |
| Art | Lawrence G. Paull | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Gilda Texter | Costume Supervisor |
| Production | John D. Schofield | Unit Production Manager |
| Crew | Billy Myatt | Special Effects Coordinator |
| Directing | Joel Douglas | First Assistant Director |
| Directing | Javier Carreño | Second Assistant Director |
| Sound | Larry Carow | Sound Editor |
| Editing | William J. Meshover | Assistant Editor |
| Sound | Charles L. Campbell | Supervising Sound Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Marilyn Vance | Costume Designer |
| Camera | Robert C. Thomas | Camera Operator |
| Sound | William B. Kaplan | Sound Mixer |
| Lighting | Mark Walthour | Gaffer |
| Costume & Make-Up | E. Thomas Case | Makeup Artist |
| Art | Agustín Ituarte | Art Direction |
| Production | Claudia Becker | Casting |
| Costume & Make-Up | Kathryn Blondell | Hairstylist |
| Editing | Kevin Stitt | Assistant Editor |
| Sound | Earl Sampson | Boom Operator |
| Editing | Jorge Azcárate | Assistant Editor |
| Production | Joel Douglas | Co-Producer |
| Sound | Louis L. Edemann | Sound Editor |
| Sound | Roger Sword | Sound Editor |
| Sound | Chuck Neely | Assistant Sound Editor |
| Sound | David Pettijohn | Sound Editor |
| Sound | Samuel C. Crutcher | Sound Editor |
| Sound | Mike Dobie | Sound Editor |
| Directing | Sandy McLeod | Script Supervisor |
| Crew | Jeannie Epper | Stunts |
| Crew | Tracy Keehn-Dashnaw | Stunts |
| Crew | Eurlyne Epper | Stunt Double |
| Directing | Terry Leonard | Second Unit Director |
| Crew | Vince Deadrick Jr. | Stunt Coordinator |
| Crew | Dean Jeffries | Stunts |
| Crew | Terry Leonard | Stunt Coordinator |
| Crew | Gerardo Albarrán | Stunts |
| Camera | Richard Hart | Second Unit Director of Photography |
