Bruce Robinson

Johnny Depp

The Rum Diary will be a welcome comeback for Bruce Robinson

Robinson is the rogue talent of British film-making...wonderfully entertaining

[The Rum Diary] brims with snapping, punchy bouts of dialogue, some of which recall the wonderful lines that weave through every scene in Withnail &amp; I

One of the finest, funniest screenplays that I've ever had the honour to be associated with

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JOHNNY DEPP 
 
A screenplay based on the novel by Hunter S. Thompson 
 
It's 1960. In a highrise hotel not far from the beaches of San Juan, a man is recovering from an animal of a hangover. 
 
Paul Kemp is an alcoholic journalist who's barely seen better days, arriving at the only job he can get: writing horoscopes for failing rag The Daily Star. His fellow hacks are mostly crazy drunks on the verge of quitting, so Kemp fits in perfectly. 
 
But when he meets the impossibly gorgeous Chenault and her flashy boyfriend Sanderson, Kemp finds himself in way over his head - party to shady business deals, in hair-raising car chases with enraged Puerto Ricans, experimenting with a hitherto unknown hallucinogen - and finally discovers a mad, desperate devotion to the truth. 
 
Bruce Robinson brings Hunter S. Thompson's novel to the big screen with all the brilliance, wild humour and fierce energy associated with the acclaimed writer and director of Withnail &amp; I and The Killing Fields.

The Rum Diary: A Screenplay

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Praise for The Rum Diary: A Screenplay

The Rum Diary will be a welcome comeback for Bruce Robinson

Robinson is the rogue talent of British film-making...wonderfully entertaining

[The Rum Diary] brims with snapping, punchy bouts of dialogue, some of which recall the wonderful lines that weave through every scene in Withnail & I

The Rum Diary will be a welcome comeback for Bruce Robinson

Robinson is the rogue talent of British film-making...wonderfully entertaining

[The Rum Diary] brims with snapping, punchy bouts of dialogue, some of which recall the wonderful lines that weave through every scene in Withnail & I

The Rum Diary will be a welcome comeback for Bruce Robinson

Robinson is the rogue talent of British film-making...wonderfully entertaining

[The Rum Diary] brims with snapping, punchy bouts of dialogue, some of which recall the wonderful lines that weave through every scene in Withnail & I

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