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The Rum Diary (2011)

Hunter S. Thompson's The Rum Diary

"One part outrage. One part justice. Three parts rum. Mix well."

2 h2011

Við kynnumst hér rithöfundinum Paul Kemp sem ferðast til San Juan í Puerto Rico þar sem hann fær starf hjá þriðja flokks blaði, The San Juan Star.

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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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EIns gott að Thompson sé dauður...

Ég segi það bara því ef hann hefði séð þessa mynd þá hefði hann líklega framið sjálfsmorð og þá af öðrum ástæðum. Maðurinn sagðist alltaf ætla drepa sig kringum fimmtugt svo …

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Amber Heard vann Spotlight Awards á Hollywood Film Festival.

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