Django Unchained

Quentin Tarantino (2012)

158min

18 Certificate

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by Alan Jones

Director Quentin Tarantino follows up his Oscar-winning war homage Inglourious Basterds with this playfully audacious mix of spaghetti western lore, Teutonic legend, blaxploitation stylings and revisionist American history. It's a wildly thrilling swagger through the good, bad and ugly sides of slavery, with Jamie Foxx as the slave-turned-bounty hunter who's on a mission to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner (played by Leonardo DiCaprio on top villainous form). Ferociously overindulgent in that trademark Tarantino way, but acceptably so because he knows which genre movies to lovingly recycle (Blazing Saddles and Mandingo to name but two), the film is blessed with often enthralling dialogue, surreal plot twists, a film buff's dream of a supporting cast and a soundtrack that acts as another melodious Morricone tribute. Christoph Waltz (who deservedly won an Academy Award) gives a brilliant performance of ruthless charm personified as Django's German mentor, but the real surprise here is Samuel L Jackson's skin-crawling portrayal of DiCaprio's manipulative head servant.

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Cast & Crew

Django Jamie Foxx

Dr King Schultz Christoph Waltz

Calvin Candie Leonardo DiCaprio

Stephen Samuel L Jackson

Broomhilda von Shaft Kerry Washington

Billy Crash Walton Goggins

Leonide Moguy Dennis Christopher

Butch Pooch / Ace Speck James Remar

Mr Stonesipher David Steen

Sheba Nichole Galicia

Lare Lee Candie-Fitzwilly Laura Cayouette

Big Daddy Don Johnson

Amerigo Vessepi Franco Nero

Dicky Speck James Russo

Marshall Gill Tatum Tom Wopat

Sheriff Bill Sharp Don Stroud

Son of a Gunfighter Russ Tamblyn

Daughter of a Son of a Gunfighter Amber Tamblyn

Curtis Carrucan Bruce Dern

Big John Brittle M C Gainey

Lil Raj Brittle Cooper Huckabee

Bag Head 2 Jonah Hill

Sheriff Gus (Snowy Snow) Lee Horsley

Tracker Peg Zoë Bell

Tracker Chaney Tom Savini

Tracker Ted Neeley

The LeQuint Dickey Mining Co Employee Michael Parks

The LeQuint Dickey Mining Co Employee John Jarratt

The LeQuint Dickey Mining Co Employee Quentin Tarantino

Tracker Lex Robert Carradine

Director Quentin Tarantino

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Language: EnglishColourTheatrical distributor: SonyGuidance: Violence and swearing.Available on: DVD and Blu-rayReleased on: 18 Jan 2013

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