The Rum Diary
One part outrage. One part justice. Three parts rum. Mix well.
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.
- Director
- Bruce Robinson
- Worldwide
- $24M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
Story overview
What It's About
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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.
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Box Office & Release
The Rum Diary returned 0.5× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $45M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $24M
- Release date
- Oct 13, 2011
- Runtime
- 2h 0m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- German, English
- Country
- United States of America
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