The Rum Diary
Release Date:
15 March 2012
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The Rum Diary tells the increasingly unhinged story of itinerant journalist Paul Kemp. Tired of the noise and madness of New York and the crushing conventions of late Eisenhower-era America, 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, Chenaults and her fiancée Sanderson, 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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Classification
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M, 119 mins
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Consumer Advice
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Drug use, sex scenes, coarse language and violence
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