7.4 Score

2006 • 2h 23min • R • Action, Thriller, Drama

Blood Diamond

"It will cost you everything."

An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son, conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed countrywide.

IMDb 8.0

RT 63%

MC 64

Writer

Charles Leavitt

Composer

James Newton Howard

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Leonardo DiCaprio

Danny Archer

Djimon Hounsou

Solomon Vandy

Jennifer Connelly

Maddy Bowen

Kagiso Kuypers

Dia Vandy

Arnold Vosloo

Colonel Coetzee

Antony Coleman

Cordell Brown

Benu Mabhena

Jassie Vandy

Anointing Lukola

N'Yanda Vandy

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