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.
The Rum Diary has generally received mixed reviews.
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The Rum Diary was released in 2011 and has generally received mixed reviews.
Online reviewers have written 631 reviews, giving The Rum Diary (2011) an average rating of 54%.
Overall, cinema-goers and film critics broadly agree on the merits of the movie, with critics giving it an average score of 57% and users giving an average score of 59%.
With a score of 54%, The Rum Diary is roughly the same as the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2011, which stands at 57%.
Other movies from 2011 with similar scores include films like Immortals, Killer Elite and The Green Hornet.
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