Rum Diary, The

Underdeveloped characters dominate this aimless, humor-dotted, quirky, factually inspired film, which is based on Hunter S. Thompson's novel, in which a hard-drinking, drug-fueled, chain-smoking journalist (Johnny Depp) with blood-shot eyes, who lives with an eccentric photographer (Michael Rispoli) and a Nazi-adoring, moonshine-making writer (Giovanni Ribisi), gets hired by a disillusioned, contentious editor-in-chief (Richard Jenkins) of soon-bankrupt The San Juan Star to concoct the horoscope column and then finds himself drawn to the flirtatious, blonde fiancée (Amber Heard) of a wealthy, smarmy, real estate wheeler dealer (Aaron Eckhart) and initially to his backhanded, shady land development scam with his equally greedy American partners (Bill Smitrovich, et al.) in 1960s Puerto Rico.
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