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Overview

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Director:
Writer:
Quentin Tarantino (written by)
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Release Date:
21 August 2009 (USA) more
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Tagline:
Once upon a time in Nazi occupied France... more
Plot:
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
6 wins & 20 nominations more
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2010 Golden Globe Nominations Announced
 (From Screen Rant. 15 December 2009, 8:19 AM, PST)

Clooney's Up In The Air Leads Golden Globes
 (From WENN. 15 December 2009, 7:56 AM, PST)

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Also Known As:
Inglorious Bastards (USA) (working title)
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MPAA:
Rated R for strong graphic violence, language and brief sexuality.
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153 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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When asked how he got into the violent, baseball bat-wielding mindset of "The Bear Jew", Eli Roth partially attributed his performance to the historically accurate costumes: "Being in wool underwear will make you want to kill anything." more
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Audio/visual unsynchronized: Just after Shoshanna makes up, Marcel starts to film and says «Tu nous la fais en une prise» ("You do it in one take"), but the English subtitles simply say "Remember". more
Quotes:
Col. Hans Landa: I have no doubt, and yes, some Germans will die, and yes, it will ruin the evening, and yes, Goebbels will be very, very, very mad at you for what you've done to his big night. But you won't get Hitler, you won't get Goebbels, you won't get Goering and you won't get Bormann. And you need all four to end the war. But if I do pick up that phone right there, you may very well get all four. And if you get all four, you end the war... tonight.
[he opens a bottle of Chianti]
Col. Hans Landa: So, gentlemen, let's discuss the prospect of ending the war tonight.
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53 out of 81 people found the following comment useful.
A Rip Roaring Yarn, 7 October 2009
8/10
Author: Ubaldo Martinez from United States

An fun, engrossing, beautifully crafted piece of nonsense, the likes of which we hadn't seen in a long long time. The silliness of the story is marvelously camouflaged with great dialogue and some superb performances. Christoph Waltz must be thinking already about his acceptance speech. What a performance! The civilized monster, polyglot, refined and deadly. He gets us going from the first, sensational scene. Brad Pitt is also wonderful. Was he putting a Mussolinni chin while impersonating (hilariously) an Italian? I thought so. His character's name sounds like Aldo Ray and I'm sure that's no accident. The film is full of movie references. Another character is named Fenek, as an homage to his 1970's sexpot, Edwige Fenech. What is already one of Tarantino's trademarks is his sure step along the most immediately recognizable bits of pop culture. He's clearly not a cultured man but a pop expert, king in a world where people get their news from TV, don't reed, other than magazines and comics, etc. That's how it happens, to be in the right place at the right time. For better or worse this are Tarantino times.

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