Begun in 1959 by a then-twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy, treachery and violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s. Summary written by Anonymous Like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, this film is an adaptation of a Hunter S. Thompson book. This one, The Rum Diary, is his first published work of fiction and covers his early days as a journalist, before all the hallucinogens (though with abundant booze), at a San Juan paper in the 1950s.

release year: 2004

star(s): Benicio Del Toro