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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 . Filming began in Puerto Rico in March 2009 and was released on October 28, 2011 ...
Oct 28, 2011 · The Rum Diary: Directed by Bruce Robinson. With Johnny Depp, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Rispoli, Amber Heard. 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.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Bruce Robinson
- 2011-10-28
Oct 28, 2011 · The Rum Diary is a 2011 film based on Hunter S. Thompson's novel, starring Johnny Depp as a journalist in Puerto Rico. Critics and audiences are divided on its quality, with some praising Depp's performance and others criticizing its rambling plot and tone.
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- Bruce Robinson
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- Johnny Depp
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
- 1998
Oct 26, 2011 · 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.
Jan 1, 1998 · The Rum Diary is a book dripping with legend and lore: that Thompson wrote it in 1960 when he was a Hemingway worshipper but couldn't get it published, that Johnny Depp found the manuscript among Thompson's papers and got it published in 1998, that Depp finally got it made as a movie in 2011, six years after Thompson's death. When it comes to Hunter S Thompson, the truth is deeply buried in ...
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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.
