The Rum Diary (2011)
"One part outrage. One part justice. Three parts rum. Mix well."
Critics Score
🎬 54%
(RT: 52%, MC: 56) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Is The Rum Diary good?
It's divisive. Only 50% of audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 54%.
Where it ranks on ThumbScore
By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.
Overview
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. Wikipedia ↗
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What Reddit Thinks
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Top comment: "I'll watch it, but it doesn't seem too true to the book, tbh. Kemp looks too much like a 'cool..."