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    The Rum Diary

    R2011 · Comedy drama · 1h 59m
  2. The Rum Diary is a 2011 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Bruce Robinson, based on the 1998 novel of the same name by Hunter S. Thompson. The film stars Johnny Depp, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Rispoli, Amber Heard, Richard Jenkins, and Giovanni Ribisi . Filming began in Puerto Rico in March 2009 and was released on October 28, 2011 ...

    • $45 million
  3. Oct 28, 2011 · A comedy drama film based on the 1960s novel by Hunter S. Thompson, starring Johnny Depp as a journalist in Puerto Rico. The film explores themes of corruption, rebellion and romance, but suffers from a weak screenplay and a vague plot.

    • Bruce Robinson
    • 198
    • 3 min
  4. Oct 28, 2011 · A comedy-drama based on Hunter S. Thompson's novel, starring Johnny Depp as a journalist in 1960s Puerto Rico. Critics and audiences are divided on the film's quality, with mixed reviews and ratings.

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    • Bruce Robinson
    • R
    • Johnny Depp
  5. The Rum Diary is an early novel by American writer Hunter S. Thompson. It was written in the early 1960s but was not published until 1998. The manuscript, begun in 1959, was discovered among Thompson's papers by Johnny Depp. The story involves a journalist named Paul Kemp who, in the 1950s, moves from New York to work for a major newspaper, The Daily News, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It is ...

    • Hunter S. Thompson
    • 213 pp
    • 1998
    • 1998
  6. A film based on Hunter S. Thompson's novel about his early journalism career in Puerto Rico, starring Johnny Depp as a drunken crusader. Roger Ebert criticizes the film's muddled plot, hazy characters and lack of focus.

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  8. Jan 1, 1998 · 61,306 ratings2,548 reviews. Begun in 1959 by a twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a tangled love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s. The narrator, freelance journalist Paul Kemp, irresistibly drawn to a sexy, mysterious woman ...

  9. A film adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's novel about a journalist in Puerto Rico in the 1960s. He struggles with alcohol, love, and corruption as he tries to expose the truth about a real estate scam.

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