
Everyone else pops in and out of the film so casually they aren’t worth noting. Johnny Depp plays Paul Kemp, a struggling writer trying to make it as a journalist in Puerto Rico, and Aaron Eckhart’s glorious chin plays Hal Sanderson. The Rum Diary happens to share its name and plot with the 1959 Hunter Thompson novel. As a Hunter Thompson fanatic, it pains me to write this, but holy shit is The Rum Diary terrible. The hardest thing a fan will ever do is take off their rose-coloured shades and admit that something in their fandom sucks. Starring: Johnny Depp, Giovanni Ribisi, and Aaron Eckhart
