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"One part outrage. One part justice. Three parts rum. Mix well.". 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, Chenaults and her fiancée Sanderson, a businessman involved in shady property development deals. It is within this world that Kemp ultimately discovers his true voice as a writer and integrity as a man.
Movie rating: 6.1 / 10 (106614)
Directed by: Bruce Robinson - Hunter S. Thompson
Writer credits: Bruce Robinson - Hunter S. Thompson
Cast: Johnny Depp - Aaron Eckhart - Michael Rispoli - Amber Heard - Richard Jenkins
AKA: Hunter S. Thompson's The Rum Diary, Diario de un seductor, Methysmeno imerologio