The Rum Diary (2011)

Directors:

Bruce Robinson

Writers:

Bruce Robinson

Actors:

Jimmy Ortega, Natalia Rivera, Aaron Lustig, Enzo Cilenti, Julian Holloway, Bill Smitrovich

Synopsis:

Tired of the noise and madness of New York and the crushing conventions of late Eisenhower-era America, itinerant journalist Paul Kemp travels to the pristine island of Puerto Rico to write for a local San Juan newspaper run by the downtrodden editor Lotterman. 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 and her fiancée, a businessman involved in shady property d...
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51

The Rum Diary (2011)

What happens when you take a great cast, put them in a scenic location, and give them a script based on the work of one of the most interesting writers of the 20th century? Nothing of note.
MalleContent
December 8, 2012
49

The Rum Diary (2011)

For a movie based on a Hunter S. Thompson novel, The Rum Diary sure is dull. I wasn't expecting the over-the-top antics of Fear and Loathing, but I was expecting, you know, a story? You can confidently give this watered-down snooze-fest a miss.
ross
November 29, 2012