The Rum Diary

Fed up with New York's clamor and the suffocating codes of late-Eisenhower America, itinerant journalist Paul Kemp journeys to Puerto Rico to write for a San Juan newspaper steered by the beleaguered editor Lotterman. Embracing the rum-soaked ethos of the late 1950s, a version of Hemingway's The Lost Generation, Kemp soon becomes entangled with a striking American woman and her fiancé, a businessman involved in shady property development deals. It is within this milieu that Kemp discovers his true voice as a writer and his integrity as a man.