Jonny Depp stars in the autobiographical account of Hunter S. Thompson in his depraved, younger years. If you remember Jonny starring in "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'" you will either like or hate this one depending on your level of addiction tolerance. The character is Paul Kemp who is looking for work in 1960 San Juan, Puerto Rico at a dying newspaper. He becomes entangeled with an American expatriate who wants to build more hotels for vacationing Americans on a soon to be abandoned island that the Navy has been using for target practice. I guess you know where to put the pool in. Things become more complicated when Paul also takes an interest in his very beautiful and reckless girlfriend. The film depicts Kemp's drunken sprees and his aimless wandering in search of his life (and a story worth filming). It has some good sceanes of comedy, but not enough to make the film a must see, even for Depp fans like me.
Jonny was a friend of Thompson's until his death in 2005, and rumor has it that this book was found among his unpublished works. Jonny, I love ya, but this one was not worth the trouble.
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