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The Rum Diary
Directed by
Bruce Robinson
R
2011
2h
Drama
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Comedy
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6.1
52%
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American journalist Paul Kemp takes on a freelance job in Puerto Rico for a local newspaper during the 1960s and struggles to find a balance between island culture and the expatriates who live there.
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Cast of The Rum Diary
Johnny Depp
Paul Kemp / Producer
Amber Heard
Chenault
Aaron Eckhart
Sanderson
Michael Rispoli
Sala
Giovanni Ribisi
Moberg
Richard Jenkins
Lotterman
Amaury Nolasco
Segurra
Marshall Bell
Donavon
Bill Smitrovich
Zimburger
Julian Holloway
Wolsley
Enzo Cilenti
Digby
Karimah Westbrook
Papa Nebo
Aaron Lustig
Monk
Natalia Rivera
Chenault's Friend
Jimmy Ortega
Cop on Fire
Guillermo Valedón
Xanadu Maitre d'
Bruce Robinson
Director / Writer
Hunter S. Thompson
Writer
Graham King
Producer
Tim Headington
Producer
Anthony Rhulen
Producer
Christi Dembrowski
Producer
Robert Kravis
Producer
The Rum Diary Ratings & Reviews
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Edelstein
The Rum Diary has no mighty gonzo wind. Even with a push from its Thompson-worshipping star, Johnny Depp, it leaves our freak flag limp.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Maybe Depp just doesn't want to upstage his hero.
NPR
Mark Jenkins
The Rum Diary is too muted to convey the intensity that propelled Thompson past most of the other magazine feature writers of his boozy era.
Detroit News
Tom Long
The Rum Diary is a woozy mess that should never have made it to theaters. But then, it stars Johnny Depp, so it did.
leonardmaltin.com
Leonard Maltin
This is a film that depends more on tone and atmosphere than narrative strength. It won't be to everybody's taste, but I found it diverting and easy to take.
TheWrap
Leah Rozen
Depp, while always fun to watch, phoned this one in.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
It flirts with becoming a great journalism tale, or at least a whimsical journalism tale, but that vein leads nowhere, too. Nor is it much of anything else, except a disordered ramble through Thompson's creative imagination.
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Depp adroitly captures the "gonzo" spirit of the journalist/author/ingester of many substances.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Holleman
If you'd like to see one version of the story about how the real Thompson became the famous, public Thompson, "The Rum Diary" is a solid and entertaining telling of that tale.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Paul may be played by one of the most charismatic actors alive, but for the most part, he is just another boozy hack.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
"The Rum Diary" exudes a cheery, beery sense of warmth and affection.
New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
The juice that powers "The Rum Diary" has very little to do with the title drink, and almost everything to do with Johnny Depp looking happily intoxicated to play a real character again.
Film.com
Eric D. Snider
We have some fun with it, but you can tell the actors (not to mention the characters) are having a lot more fun than we are.
Beliefnet
Nell Minow
22-year-old Hunter S. Thompson wrote a novel about men in their 30′s working for a Puerto Rican newspaper, equally soaked in the title libation and the brinier flavors of cynicism and failure.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
A mild lark disguised as a wild bender, "The Rum Diary" is also a touching tribute to Thompson himself, who committed suicide in 2005.
Los Angeles Times
Betsy Sharkey
In every move, Depp makes you believe this was a passion project for the actor, one he dedicates to Thompson.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
At best diverting, at worst drearily conventional, The Rum Diary is pre-gonzo Thompson. But the seeds are there, ready to yield a harvest of fear and loathing.
Movieline
Stephanie Zacharek
After years of watching Johnny Depp give performances from behind thick rings of pirate eyeliner or masks of outlandish Tim Burton makeup, it's a relief to see him, more and more often these days, acting with nothing but his real face.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
"The Rum Diary'' has been retroactively Hunter S. Thompson-ized. And not for the better.
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