The Rum Diary Page #9

Synopsis: Hard-drinking journalist Paul Kemp takes a job at a besieged newspaper in San Juan, Puerto Rico. His volatile editor, Lotterman, assigns him to tourist pieces and horoscopes, but promises more. Paul rooms with Sala, an aging and equally alcoholic reporter, in a rundown flat. Sanderson, a wealthy entrepreneur, hires Paul to flack for a group of investors who plan to buy an island near the capital and build a resort. Sanderson's girl-friend, the beguiling Chenault, bats her eyes at Paul. His loyalties face challenges when he and Sala get in trouble with locals, when a Carnival dance enrages Sanderson, and when the paper hits the skids. Is the solution always alcohol?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Bruce Robinson
Production: The Film District
  2 wins & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.2
Metacritic:
56
Rotten Tomatoes:
50%
R
Year:
2011
119 min
$13,000,000.00
Website
1,612 Views


Yeah, everyone's here.

What about the vans?

What about the vans, Moburg?

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, vans.

(ANNOUNCER SPEAKING SPANISH

ON PA)

(CROWD CHEERING) You hear that?

We're on our way.

What the hell is going on?

He said he had the men.

"All claims against

the former owners

will be..."

(MUMBLING)

"Signed on behalf

of First Maritime Bank,

Miami."

Sanderson's pal, Mr. Green.

Sorry, Paul.

I didn't know how to say.

They... They took

all the machines out.

Not everything,

but just the parts that matter.

I'll let you in.

(DOOR SLAMS IN DISTANCE)

All I wanted was a front page.

Probably for the best.

Probably would've

never pulled it off.

How much...

How much did

you guys win?

Just under six grand.

Oh, yeah, well, you...

At least you can

pay off the bond now.

Screw the bond.

We're out of here.

It's over with.

SALA:
There's

a midnight Pan Am.

I'm not risking the airport.

No.

I figure this island

owes us a boat.

And I'm f***in' taking

one of Sanderson's.

You smell it?

It's the smell of bastards.

It's also the smell of truth.

I smell ink.

Always think

About the days gone by

When the childhood

I have sown

Appears in the sky

But I'm not the simple man

The boy I used to be

No, I learned

to picture life...

I got to take the hen back.

And I found

After all the searching

Life was only what I made it

After all the searching

for new games to play...

Find yourself a trade wind.

After all the searching

Life was only what I made it

After all the searching

for a new game to play

Live my life away

Saw a dragon

shake the theater walls

While the steeple bell

Rang out in anguished calls

And I turn my eyes

To see a bird fly overhead

And I dreamt

its wings of freedom

Could be mine instead

And I found

After all the dreaming

Life was only what I made it

After all the dreaming

Of new games to play

I drink my life away

Love you all

And livin' on

Livin' life the way...

Do you remember me?

The ocean rolled

Time was slow

We felt an energy

The cock was crowing

The rum was flowing

A mermaid burns to see

Beyond the sea

I long to see

If there's a page for me

A page for me

In your diary

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Bruce Robinson

Bruce Robinson (born 2 May 1946) is an English director, screenwriter, novelist and actor. He is arguably most famous for writing and directing the cult classic Withnail and I (1987), a film with comic and tragic elements set in London in the 1960s, which drew on his experiences as "a chronic alcoholic and resting actor, living in squalor" in Camden Town. more…

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