Django Unchained

Django Unchained
Django Unchained
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Directed by	Quentin Tarantino
Produced by	Stacey Sher; Reginald Hudlin; Pilar Savone;
Written by	Quentin Tarantino
Starring	Jamie Foxx; Christoph Waltz; Leonardo DiCaprio; Kerry Washington; Samuel L. Jackson; Walton Goggins; Dennis Christopher; James Remar; Michael Parks; Don Johnson;
Cinematography	Fred Raskin
Edited by	Robert Richardson
Production; company	A Band Apart; Columbia Pictures;
Distributed by	The Weinstein Company (United States); Columbia Pictures (through Sony Pictures Releasing; International);
Release date	December 11, 2012 (Ziegfeld Theatre); December 25, 2012 (United States);
Running time	165 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$100 million
Box office	$449.8 million

Django Unchained is a 2012 American revisionist western movie written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. It is set in 1858. It stars Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, and Samuel L. Jackson. This western-drama is about the Antebellum South. There has been controversy related to its subject matter. The movie was released on December 25, 2012 in the United States.

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Clockwise from top left: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Samuel L. Jackson, and Kerry Washington, in Paris at the film's French premiere, January 2013.
Writer-director Quentin Tarantino in Paris at the film's French premiere, January 2013.
The soundtrack features several tracks composed by Ennio Morricone for spaghetti Western films of the 1960s and 1970s.
Leonardo DiCaprio's performance as the antagonist "Monsieur" Calvin J. Candie earned notable acclaim from critics.

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