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The Rum Diary

Cast

Johnny Depp, Amber Heard, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Rispoli View All

Crew

Bruce Robinson (Screenplay), Bruce Robinson (Director), Hunter S. Thompson (Story) View All

Release: Oct. 13th, 2011

Runtime: 2 hours

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 fianc�e, a...

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It's hard not to think of Withnail and I as a directorial fluke, but then there was also the fact that they were bringing back Johnny Depp to play Thompson's fictitious alter-ego despite the fact that Thompson would have been in his early-twenties during the events of The Rum Diary while Depp is at....

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