Paul Kemp has moved from New York to the steamy heat of Puerto Rico to work at the Daily News. He starts hanging out at Al's Backyard, a local den selling booze and hamburgers to vagrant journalists who are mostly crazy drunks on the verge of quitting. Based on the novel by Hunter S. Thompson, THE RUM DIARY, follows journalist Paul Kemp (Johnny Depp) on an alcohol-fueled journey across the island of Puerto Rico where he finds himself caught between a shady American businessman, a beautiful woman, and several bottles of booze. Theirs is an airy fairy romance; clearly the fantasy of a stoned young man. But this isn't a taut anti-establishment conspiracy thriller either. The real mystery surrounds whether Kemp will ever R. 1h 59m. By A.O. Scott. Oct. 27, 2011. “The Rum Diary,” directed by Bruce Robinson ( “Withnail and I”) and based on an early novel of the same title by Hunter S. Thompson, will appeal to Journalist Paul Kemp takes a job at a besieged newspaper in San Juan, Puerto Rico. His volatile editor, Lotterman, assigns him to tourist pieces and horoscop Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2022-06-27 09:07:52 Autocrop_version 0.0.14_books-20220331-0.2 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA40579906 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Based on the debut novel by Hunter S. Thompson which initiated his long, distinguished and brilliantly unpredictable career, THE RUM DIARY tells the increasingly unhinged story of itinerant journalist Paul Kemp (Depp). The Rum Diary is a film directed by Bruce Robinson with Johnny Depp, Amber Heard, Aaron Eckhart, Richard Jenkins . Year: 2011. Original title: The Rum Diary. Synopsis: Paul Kemp is a freelance journalist who finds himself at a critical turning point in his life while writing for a run-down newspaper in the Caribbean. The novel Rum Diary was written by American writer Hunter S. Thompson in the late fifties. However, it was not released until 1998, when Johnny Depp discovered the unpublished manuscript in the basement of Thompson's house, Owl Farm, in Woody Creek, Colorado. Tiredof 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 .

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