The Rum Diary (2011)

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About the movie

Year

2011

Runtime

2 h 0 min

Genres

Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country

United States

Director

Bruce Robinson

Writers

Bruce Robinson, Hunter S. Thompson

Plotline

American journalist Paul Kemp takes on a freelance job in Puerto Rico for a local newspaper during the 1950s and struggles to find a balance between island culture and the expatriates who live there.

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Starring

Johnny Depp

Aaron Eckhart

Amber Heard

Richard Jenkins

Giovanni Ribisi

Main cast

Johnny Depp Hunter S. Thompson

Aaron Eckhart Sanderson

Michael Rispoli Sala

Amber Heard Chenault

Richard Jenkins Lotterman

Giovanni Ribisi Moberg

Amaury Nolasco Segarra

Marshall Bell Donovan

Bill Smitrovich Mr. Zimburger

Julian Holloway Wolsley

Karen Austin Mrs. Zimburger

Bruno Irizarry Lazar

Enzo Cilenti Digby

Aaron Lustig Monk

Tisuby González Rosy

Natalia Rivera Chenault's Friend

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External critics' reviews

Thompson's fans will embrace its twisted verbal dexterity, romantically imagining the author feverishly pulling strings from the beyond. more

A fitting tribute to Hunter and the demise of the American Dream, but first and foremost a thrilling and funny snapshot of a country on its knees and a writer finding his feet. more

Depp shows again that he truly understands Thompson by delivering a nuanced performance that is remarkably different, but subliminally similar, from the wonderfully outrageous turn he provided in "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." more

Jazzy and colorful, full of men and women in swell clothes driving cool cars, The Rum Diary has a bit of a seedily exotic Graham Greene vibe, and Robinson moves things along at a nice, casual clip, even in the film's more overheated moments. more

A big, rambling, entertaining love letter to the late Hunter S. Thompson. more

An agreeable time-waster for the onlookers and its star. The Rum Diary isn't a corrective to Johnny Depp's kid-centric career, more like a vacation from it, in a resort where the visitors are strange, the natives are restless and the flow of alcohol endless. more

The Rum Diary is enjoyable enough, after its digressive, episodic and voyeuristic fashion. But neither Depp nor Robinson seems quite aware that Thompson's story - both in terms of his brief career in Puerto Rico and in terms of his life - was at least as much a story of tragedy and self-immolation as it was of genius. more

The Rum Diary is so visually enchanting that many viewers may be too lost in a haze of charm to care that the film never develops Thompson's then-nascent wisdom any further than the young writer did in the novel itself. more

You also get drinking. Lots and lots of drinking. By the time the movie is half over, you'll feel hungover. more

Temperance of a different sort, a willful abstention from trippy stylistic excess, is what makes this 1960-set Caribbean picaresque easily the most lucid screen adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's work, even if it's still several drafts shy of a fully developed yarn. more

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