Needless to say there's a woman involved, too - a damsel in a tower in need of rescue - who happens to be living with the shady Sanderson.Īmber Heard plays the woman of our hero's dreams, though the first time you see her with Depp you might, for a second, think he's just taking a fatherly interest. A burgeoning alcoholic, he falls in with his fellow drunks but also gets swept into the circle of a glib and glamorous businessman, Sanderson, played by Aaron Eckhart. Here and there, fleetingly, it is.ĭepp, who goes through the movie doing a not-so-subtle impersonation of Thompson, plays Kemp, a journalist who takes a job at the San Juan Star. Still, by the time the truth dawns about "The Rum Diary," the movie has built up too much audience goodwill for it to become an object of scorn. Instead, he keeps short-circuiting his imagination and retreating to the familiar - to people sitting around getting drunk or stoned and making rote pronouncements about the soul of America. (It wasn't published until 1998.) As a storyteller, Thompson seems unable to let go and let his story and his characters take him to places where he doesn't feel safe. That publishers rejected it won't be a mystery to anyone who sees this movie.
Signed by Author(s).Thompson wrote "The Rum Diary" as a young man in the early 1960s, loosely based on his own experience writing for a sports publication in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Thank you! Richard Vick, Modern First Editions (Buying and Selling Modern First Editions since 1982).
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