The Rum Diary

5.9

United States Of America

Comedy Drama

120 min

2011

Johnny Depp Amber Heard Aaron Eckhart Michael Rispoli Giovanni Ribisi Richard Jenkins Amaury Nolasco Marshall Bell Bill Smitrovich Julian Holloway Enzo Cilenti Karimah Westbrook Aaron Lustig Jimmy Ortega Guillermo Valedón

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.