Hard-drinking journalist Paul Kemp takes a job at a besieged newspaper in San Juan, Puerto Rico. His volatile editor, Lotterman, assigns him to tourist pieces and horoscopes, but promises more. Paul rooms with Sala, an aging and equally alcoholic reporter, in a rundown flat. Sanderson, a wealthy entrepreneur, hires Paul to flack for a group of investors who plan to buy an island near the capital and build a resort. Sanderson's girl-friend, the beguiling Chenault, bats her eye... (Full plot summary below)
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Hard-drinking journalist Paul Kemp takes a job at a besieged newspaper in San Juan, Puerto Rico. His volatile editor, Lotterman, assigns him to tourist pieces and horoscopes, but promises more. Paul rooms with Sala, an aging and equally alcoholic reporter, in a rundown flat. Sanderson, a wealthy entrepreneur, hires Paul to flack for a group of investors who plan to buy an island near the capital and build a resort. Sanderson's girl-friend, the beguiling Chenault, bats her eyes at Paul. His loyalties face challenges when he and Sala get in trouble with locals, when a Carnival dance enrages Sanderson, and when the paper hits the skids. Is the solution always alcohol?
Leave your thoughts about The Rum Diary.
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyThe film has many flaws--overlong, episodic, earnest--and yet if does offer vivid insights into the identity formation of the cult writer as a young man and of the broader context of Puerto Rico. |
| Film BlatherEugene NovikovThis may simply be a matter of sensibility, but I just don't find this sort of self-absorbed counterculture non-narrative interesting. My kingdom for some drama. |
| Boston HeraldTenley WoodmanFor a booze-soaked tale, The Rum Diary is dry viewing. |
| Boston PhoenixAnn LewinsonWriter-director Bruce Robinson has rewritten Thompson's autobiographical novel in the inebriated-buddy image of his Withnail and I; his dialogue is wickedly quotable, his moral outrage unabashed. |
| Little White LiesDan BrightmoreA rare glimpse into the mind of the gonzo writer and among Depp's best work. |
| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)Ken HankeMisses greatness, but contains elements of greatness of the kind that only comes from filmmakers who are willing to take real chances. |
| Common Sense MediaJeffrey M. AndersonWhile it's not 100% successful, most of the time it will have you either laughing hysterically or mad as hell. |
| Daily News EgyptMyriam GhattasRobinson's film is pleasurable on many different levels, not least of which are the ingenious numerous instances of blunt or delirious dialogue exchanges littering the script and delivered in a decidedly taunting matter-of-fact fashion. |
| PopMattersBill GibronThe Rum Diary is an overheated, heartfelt tribute. It's celluloid strained through a homemade still and fermented until near toxicity |
| Hollywood & FineMarshall FineA lengthy drinking binge of a movie: It's fun for a while, seems to offer more meaning than it actually does - and leaves you wishing it hadn't ended so badly. |
