The Rum Diary (2011)

5.8	Rating (461 ratings)
6.2	IMDB rating

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Directed by

Bruce Robinson

Starring (View all)

Johnny Depp
Kemp

Aaron Eckhart
Sanderson

Michael Rispoli
Sala

Amber Heard
Chenault

Richard Jenkins
Lotterman

Giovanni Ribisi
Moberg

Amaury Nolasco
Segurra

Marshall Bell
Donovan

Written by

Bruce Robinson
(screenplay)

Hunter S. Thompson
(novel)

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The Rum Diary

12 years, 6 months ago at Oct 29 0:16

kgbelliveau

2 votes

Paul Kemp is an American journalist who is struggling to find his voice. When he takes a job in beautiful sunny Puerto Rico he hopes that his life will turn around. He finds himself drinking heavily, writing horoscopes and trying to build himself a life. It all turns around when he meets Hal Sanderson and his beautiful girlfriend Chenault with whom he feels an instant connection. Paul struggles to... read more

A flat and dull disappointment.

12 years, 5 months ago at Dec 5 16:19

SJMJ91

2 votes

Any film featuring Johnny Depp on-screen is going to bring great excitement to critics, film fanatics and amongst others which generally leads to exceedingly high expectations. Plus, in The Rum Diary there were other possibilities that could make it become something worthwhile to fully enjoy and get a lot of fun out of due to the settings of the film, cinematography and with a story that could hav... read more

The Rum Diary

12 years, 4 months ago at Jan 9 2:06

JxSxPx

1 vote

Never truly anything great, and Depp is clearly too old for the role, but there’s something so oddly charming and entertaining about The Rum Diary. Maybe it’s that there’s clearly a lot of love for Hunter S. Thompson on display here, and the film works best when you think of it as a love-letter to the days when the artist was trying to find his footing and artistic voice. By the time the fil... read more

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Description: The increasingly unhinged story of itinerant journalist Paul Kemp (Depp). Tired of the noise and madness of New York and the crushing conventions of late Eisenhower-era America, Kemp travels to the pristine island of Puerto Rico to write for a local San Juan newspaper run by the downtrodden editor Lotterman (Jenkins). Adopting the rum-soaked lifestyle of the late '50s version of Hemingway's "The Lost Generation," Paul soon becomes entangled with a very attractive American woman, Chenault (Heard) and her fiancee Sanderson (Eckhart), a businessman involved in shady property development deals. It is within this world that ... (more)

Release date: 20 October 2011

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