The Rum Diary (2011)
Release Date
2011-10-13
Rating
6
Duration
120 min
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Keywords
newspaper journalist based on novel or book alcohol voodoo puerto rico carnival protest debate fire breathing vomiting cockfight rum brochure tongue drunkenness 1960s
Qualities
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.
