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Oct 27, 2011 · “The Rum Diary,” based on an early novel by Hunter S. Thompson, stars Johnny Depp as a young writer named Paul Kemp, a Thompson alter ego.
- Bruce Robinson
Oct 26, 2011 · This career path looks marginally sunnier in “The Rum Diary,” based on a novel he wrote in the early 1970s. The story goes that Johnny Depp found the manuscript among Thompson’s papers in his Colorado cabin on Woody Creek, and was instrumental in getting it published and now produced as a film.
As the Eisenhower era draws to a close, journalist Paul Kemp (Johnny Depp) decides he's had enough of New York and takes a job in Puerto Rico.
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To work, The Rum Diary would need to make the case for all the excesses that killed Thompson, and Robinson’s heart (or talent) isn’t in it. The movie builds to a cockfight, the winnings from...
Oct 28, 2011 · A man who’s prone to medicating every waking moment with, you guessed it, rum. But as Kemp staggers through this hedonistic, purpose-starved existence, two divergent realities begin to pull him in opposite directions. Direction 1) His rum-sodden conscience begins to awaken as he notices how impoverished so many of San Juan’s residents are.
- Bruce Robinson
Oct 28, 2011 · The Rum Diary adaptation, for anyone loosely familiar with the book, follows the fictional character (and journalist) Paul Kemp as he tires of his life in New York and travels to San Juan, Puerto Rico to work as a reporter (Thompson also worked as a San Juan journalist during the 1960s).
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Oct 28, 2011 · Based on a Hunter S. Thompson novel, this adventure follows a liquored-up New York journalist (Johnny Depp) during his time in Puerto Rico working for a local newspaper.
