Django Unchained (2012)

Django Unchained rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb8.5/10· 1.9M votes

Rotten Tomatoes87%

Metacritic81%

TMDb8.191/10· 28K votes

With 87% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 8.5/10 on IMDb and 81/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About Django Unchained

With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.

Cast of Django Unchained

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  Jamie Foxx

  as Django Freeman

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  Christoph Waltz

  as Dr. King Schultz

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  Leonardo DiCaprio

  as Calvin J. Candie

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  Kerry Washington

  as Broomhilda von Shaft

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  Samuel L. Jackson

  as Stephen

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  Walton Goggins

  as Billy Crash

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  Dennis Christopher

  as Leonide Moguy

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  James Remar

  as Butch Pooch / Ace Speck

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  David Steen

  as Mr. Stonesipher

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  Dana Gourrier

  as Cora

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  Nichole Galicia

  as Sheba

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  Laura Cayouette

  as Lara Lee Candie-Fitzwilly

Django Unchained facts

Budget

$100M

Box office

$425.4M

Our take on Django Unchained

Quentin Tarantino's 2012 western drama follows a freed slave who, with the help of a German bounty hunter, sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner. Tarantino filters the Old West through his signature blend of sharp dialogue, sudden violence, and pointed reckoning with America's history of slavery. The result is stylish, provocative, and often blackly funny, driven by a partnership at its heart. Admirers of the operatic grandeur of Once Upon a Time in the West or the frontier grit of True Grit will find a bold companion piece here. It suits viewers who want their westerns loud, moral, and unafraid to confront ugly truths.