The Rum Diary

Category: Adventure
All Genres: Adventure, Drama
Release Year: 2011
Country:
Runtime: 120
Rating: (0)
Languages: English, Spanish
Director: Bruce Robinson
Sound: Dolby Digital
Taglines:
Writing by: Bruce Robinson – (screenplay)
Hunter S. Thompson – (novel)
Produced by: Christi Dembrowski – producer
Johnny Depp – producer
A.J. Dix – executive producer
Tim Headington – producer
Graham King – producer
Peter Kohn – co-producer
Robert Kravis – producer
Patrick McCormick – executive producer
Anthony Rhulen – producer
Greg Shapiro – executive producer
William Shively – executive producer
George Tobia Jr. – executive producer
Colin Vaines – executive producer
Cast: Johnny Depp – Kemp
Aaron Eckhart – Sanderson
Michael Rispoli – Sala
Amber Heard – Chenault
Richard Jenkins – Lotterman
Giovanni Ribisi – Moburg
Amaury Nolasco – Segurra
Marshall Bell – Donovan
Bill Smitrovich – Mr. Zimburger
Julian Holloway – Wolsley
Bruno Irizarry – Lazar
Music: Christopher Young
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Plot Outline:
American journalist Paul Kemp takes on a freelance job in Puerto Rico for a local newspaper during the 1950s and struggles to find a balance between island culture and the ex-patriots who live there.
Plot: Paul Kemp is a freelance journalist who finds himself at a critical turning point in his life while writing for a run-down newspaper in the Caribbean. Paul is challenged on many levels as he tries to carve out a more secure niche for himself amidst a group of lost souls all bent on self-destruction.
Movie Quotes:
Trivia: There are 11 entries in the trivia list – like these:
- The production was originally slated to start in 2004.
- Benicio Del Toro, Brad Pitt, Josh Hartnett and Nick Nolte were originally slated to appear.
- According to Bruce Robinson's commentary track on the Withnail & I DVD, he was asked by Johnny Depp to write and direct Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (prior to Terry Gilliam's involvement). Robinson turned the offer down, saying he didn't know “how you could get that one on the screen.”







