The Rum Diary (2011)
The Rum Diary is a book-based movie adapted from "The Rum Diary" by Hunter S. Thompson. This Comedy/Drama film is a loose adaptation, and its release date is October 27, 2011.
The Source Material
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Overview
Begun in 1959 by a twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s. The narrator, freelance…
About The Movie
Description
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 development deals. It is within this world that Kemp ultimately discovers his true voice as a writer and integrity as a man.
Details
- Title
- The Rum Diary
- Original Title
- The Rum Diary
- Original Language
- EN
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- US Theatrical
- October 27, 2011 · Rated R