The Rum Diary (movie)
- User score: 5.9
- Production country: United Kingdom, United States of America
- Producer: Bruce Robinson
- Production companies: FilmEngine, GK Films, Infinitum Nihil, FilmDistrict, Mandate International
- Genre: Comedy, Drama
- Budget: $45,000,000
- Revenue: $24,000,000
- Release date: 10/13/2011
- Run time: 120 min.
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.
