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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 .
Oct 28, 2011 · IMDb RATING. 6.1 /10. 108K. YOUR RATING. Rate. Play trailer 2:31. 16 Videos. 99+ Photos. Comedy Drama. American journalist Paul Kemp takes on a freelance job in Puerto Rico for a local newspaper during the 1960s and struggles to find a balance between island culture and the expatriates who live there. Director. Bruce Robinson. Writers.
Oct 28, 2011 · Rated: 3.0/4.0 • Sep 21, 2020. 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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The Rum Diary is an early novel by American writer Hunter S. Thompson. [1] [2] 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. [3] .
Jan 1, 1998 · The Rum Diary. Hunter S. Thompson. 3.84. 61,261 ratings2,542 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.
Oct 26, 2011 · One of Kemp's stories concerns Sanderson ( Aaron Eckhart ), a property developer who has grown rich through shady deals, and occupies a palatial beach home where he entertains local investors. The movie is cast as autobiographical, assuming that Thompson had been given the job in the first place.
Hard-drinking journalist Paul Kemp takes a job at a besieged newspaper in San Juan, Puerto Rico. His volatile editor, Lotterman, assigns him to tourist pieces and horoscopes, but promises more. Paul rooms with Sala, an aging and equally alcoholic reporter, in a rundown flat.
