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The Rum Diary [Blu-ray] | ![The Rum Diary [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51IuO1cCqML._SL160_.jpg)
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| Director: Bruce Robinson
Actors: Johnny Depp, Giovanni Ribisi, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Rispoli, Amber Heard
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
List Price: $35.99
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Sales Rank: 12033
Format: AC-3, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Running Time: 120 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.3 x 0.4
MPN: COLBR39488
UPC: 043396394889
EAN: 0043396394889
ASIN: B006ISJQBM
Theatrical Release Date: October 28, 2011
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Complete. STAMP ON DISC. Case, art, and disc in excellent condition. Quick Shipper
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Product Description
After an unforgettable turn in "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," Johnny Depp takes on another Hunter S. Thompson persona in this adaptation of the gonzo journalist's (posthumously published) 1998 book, portraying a freelance reporter working for a small-time newspaper in Puerto Rico. Prone to drink and enthusiastic socializing, the free-spirited scribe has a tough time with deadlines while mingling with a variety of colorful characters. With Aaron Eckhart, Amber Heard, and Richard Jenkins. 120 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English DTS HD 5.1 Master Audio; Subtitles: English (SDH), Spanish; featurettes.
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Actor-producer Johnny Depp pays homage to his friend Hunter S. Thompson through this sprightly adaptation of the novelist's semi-autobiographical novel. Depp plays Paul Kemp, the booze-sozzled journalist who takes center stage in Bruce Robinson's period comedy. Out of desperation, the New Yorker takes a job with a San Juan newspaper in 1960, where he reports to the cynical Lotterman (Richard Jenkins) and shares a squalid flat with laid-back photographer Sala (The Sopranos' Michael Rispoli) and the truly unhinged "crime and religion" reporter Moburg (a scene-stealing Giovanni Ribisi). The three Ugly Americans do their best to drain the island's rum supply until Kemp meets Aaron Eckhart's slick Sanderson, who recruits the writer to promote his real estate ventures, regardless as to the number of poverty-stricken Puerto Ricans his hotels will displace. Politically, Kemp leans left, but he needs the dough, so he accepts the offer, only to find the ultimate temptation in Sanderson's uninhibited fiancée, Chenault (the stunning Amber Heard). It's a tricky balancing act, but when the natives start getting restless, Kemp risks losing everything. If the conclusion feels anticlimactic, Robinson keeps the antic energy going through nerve-wracking car chases, balletic cock fights, and a hilarious acid excursion that recalls the hotel trip-out in Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, to which Robinson's film serves as a less surrealistic cousin. If it isn't as certain to become a cult classic, like the director's equally inebriated Withnail and I, Depp and company always remain true to Thompson's irascible spirit. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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