 The theme song performed by Billy Ocean, "When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going", became a top-40 hit.Taking place six months after the events in "Romancing the Stone", Joan Wilder's (Kathleen Turner) and Jack Colton's (Michael Douglas) romance has grown stale.While moored at a port in the South of France, Joan, suffering writer's block, wants to return to New York, while Jack prefers aimlessly sailing the world on his boat, the "Angelina".