The Rum Diary is a 2011 film based on the novel of the same name by Hunter S. Thompson. The film is directed by Bruce Robinson and stars Johnny Depp. Filming began in Puerto Rico in March 2009. It was released on October 28, 2011. It marks Robinson's first film as director in nineteen years, his prior film being Jennifer 8, released in 1992.
Paul Kemp (Johnny Depp) is an itinerant journalist who grows tired of New York and America under the Eisenhower administration and travels to Puerto Rico to write for The San Juan Star. Kemp begins the habit of drinking rum and becomes obsessed with a woman named Chenault (Amber Heard).
Hunter S. Thompson wrote the novel The Rum Diary in 1961, but the novel was not published until 1998. The independent production companies Shooting Gallery and SPi Films sought to adapt the novel into a film in 2000, and after Bram Sheldon declined the role, actor Johnny Depp was signed to star and to serve as executive producer. Nick Nolte was also signed to star alongside Depp. The project did not move past the development stage. During this stage, Hunter S. Thompson became so frustrated as to fire off an obscenity-laden letter calling the process a "waterhead fuckaround".
The film received mixed reviews from critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 51% of 89 critics have given the film a positive review, with a rating average of 5.9 out of 10. The website's consensus is, "It's colorful and amiable enough, and Depp's heart is clearly in the right place, but The Rum Diary fails to add sufficient focus to its rambling source material."Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, gives the film a score of 57 based on 34 reviews. CinemaScore polls reported that the average grade moviegoers gave the film was a "C" on an A+ to F scale. Watch free movies online without downloading in full strength.
Wyatt Williams, writing for Creative Loafing, argues that "the movie version amounts to Thompson's whole vision of journalism, glossed and made plain by Hollywood”. Watch movies online without downloading in full strength.
Paul Kemp (Johnny Depp) is an itinerant journalist who grows tired of New York and America under the Eisenhower administration and travels to Puerto Rico to write for The San Juan Star. Kemp begins the habit of drinking rum and becomes obsessed with a woman named Chenault (Amber Heard).
Hunter S. Thompson wrote the novel The Rum Diary in 1961, but the novel was not published until 1998. The independent production companies Shooting Gallery and SPi Films sought to adapt the novel into a film in 2000, and after Bram Sheldon declined the role, actor Johnny Depp was signed to star and to serve as executive producer. Nick Nolte was also signed to star alongside Depp. The project did not move past the development stage. During this stage, Hunter S. Thompson became so frustrated as to fire off an obscenity-laden letter calling the process a "waterhead fuckaround".
The film received mixed reviews from critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 51% of 89 critics have given the film a positive review, with a rating average of 5.9 out of 10. The website's consensus is, "It's colorful and amiable enough, and Depp's heart is clearly in the right place, but The Rum Diary fails to add sufficient focus to its rambling source material."Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, gives the film a score of 57 based on 34 reviews. CinemaScore polls reported that the average grade moviegoers gave the film was a "C" on an A+ to F scale. Watch free movies online without downloading in full strength.
Wyatt Williams, writing for Creative Loafing, argues that "the movie version amounts to Thompson's whole vision of journalism, glossed and made plain by Hollywood”. Watch movies online without downloading in full strength.
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