Django Unchained (2012)
Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained follows Jamie Foxx's Django, a Black slave who is freed before becoming a bounty hunter. After meeting German dentist-turned-bounty-hunter Dr. King Schultz, Django sets off to free his wife from the cruel and charismatic plantation owner Calvin Candie. Christophe Waltz stars alongside Foxx, with Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L. Jackson, and Kerry Washington rounding out the cast of Tarantino's revisionist Spaghetti Western.
Django Unchained
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- Director
- Quentin Tarantino
- Release Date
- December 25, 2012
- Studio(s)
- Sony
- Distributor(s)
- Sony
- Cast
- Leonardo DiCaprio , Jonah Hill , Samuel L. Jackson , Jamie Foxx , Kerry Washington , Christoph Waltz
- Writers
- Quentin Tarantino
- Runtime
- 165 minutes
- Budget
- 100 million
Summary
Three years before the Civil War, a freed slave named Django (Foxx) forms a partnership with German bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (Waltz) and embarks on a quest to rescue his wife Broomhilda (Washington), who is a slave owned by the vicious Calvin Candie (DiCaprio).
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