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The Rum Diary (15)
- Consumer Advice: Contains strong language and infrequent drug use
- Run time: 2 hours
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 11th November 2011
- Starring: Johnny Depp, Amber Heard, Aaron Eckhart
- Directed by: Bruce Robinson
- Distributor: Entertainment Film Dists
Plot Synopsis
The Rum Diary tells the increasingly unhinged story of itinerant journalist Paul Kemp (Depp). Tired of the noise and madness of New York and the crushing conventions of late Eisenhower-era America, Kemp travels to the pristine island of Puerto Rico to write for a local San Juan newspaper run by the downtrodden editor Lotterman (Jenkins). 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, Chenault (Heard) and her fiancée Sanderson (Eckhart), 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.