Starring: Johnny Depp, Amber Heard, Richard Jenkins, Giovanni Ribisi
Director: Bruce Robinson
Running Time: 120 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: November 11th, 2011
Director: Bruce Robinson
Running Time: 120 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: November 11th, 2011
On paper, The Rum Diary sounds like a sure-fire winner, but in practice it’s slightly more problematic than that. The film sees Johnny Depp returning to the work of Hunter S. Thompson and again playing the kind of Thompson alter-ego that he did so well in Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas. Depp has been intimately involved with the movie, to the point where he was the one who told Thompson to publish it, as the writer had stuffed it in a drawer since the early 60s and never let anyone see it. Depp and Thompson were casting around for something else they could film after Fear & Loathing, and came across The Rum Diary, which was duly published and is Hunter’s only proper novel. [Read more…]
