Rum Punch to start over again, a desperate Jackie devises a secret, risky plan of her own to double-cross Ordell and the police, save herself, and secure her future. To execute this plan, Jackie must enlist the help of Max Cherry—the same bail bondsman Ordell hired to get Jackie out of jail. Rum Punch Rum Punch is a 1992 novel written by Elmore Leonard. The novel was adapted into the film "Jackie Brown" (1997) by director Quentin Tarantino, although the movie changed the setting to Los Angeles. The characters Ordell Robbie and Louis Gara first appeared in Leonard's novel, "The Switch", which
The Rum Diary (film) which assigns a weighted average score to reviews, gives the film a score of 56 out of 100, based on 37 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film was a "C" on an A+ to F scale. Wyatt Williams, writing for Creative Loafing, argues that "the movie version amounts to Thompson's whole vision of journalism, glossed and made plain by Hollywood." The Rum Diary (film) The Rum Diary is a 2011 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Bruce Robinson, based on the novel of the same name by Hunter S. Thompson. It stars