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Blood Diamond (2006) 8.0
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8.0/10 from 246,627 users
Metascore: 64/100
Reviews: 620 user | 238 critic | 39 from Metacritic.com A fisherman, a smuggler, and a syndicate of businessmen match wits over the possession of a priceless diamond. Director:Edward Zwick |
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Cast
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Cordell Brown
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A story following Archer, a man tortured by his roots. With a strong survival instinct, he has made himself a key player in the business of conflict diamonds. Political unrest is rampant in Sierra Leone as people fight tooth for tooth. Upon meeting Solomon, and the beautiful Maddy, Archer's life changes forever as he is given a chance to make peace with the war around him. Written by Miist
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Release Date:
8 December 2006 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Budget:
$100,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
£1,471,104 (UK) (26 January 2007)Gross:
$57,366,262 (USA) (6 April 2007)Company Credits
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Solomon Vandy: Dia. Dia. Don't want to be late.
Dia Vandy: English boys don't go to school every day.
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Written and Performed by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan appears courtesy of the Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Estate
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The airplane that Maddy Bowen boards at Colonel Coetzee's camp is a Russian Ilyushin Il-76 (NATO designation "Candid"). It was mostly likely the Il-76TF, which is the civilian transport variant. See more »Goofs
When RUF raids Solomon Vandy's village, RUF soldiers start chopping people's hands. At this scene, the RUF commander shoots a person who tries to run. After that, he explains their motive to the second person. At this time he has a sword in his right hand and a book in his left. From the back camera, the sword is in the left hand, and the book is absent. Also from this point, the book goes in and out of the commander's pocket every now and then till the next scene. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Solomon Vandy: Dia. Dia. Don't want to be late.
Dia Vandy: English boys don't go to school every day.
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Featured in The Rotten Tomatoes Show: Inception/Predators/The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010) See more »Soundtracks
"Joyous Prayer"Written and Performed by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
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Because I lived in Sierra Leone, in fact in Kono, the diamond-mining area of the country, for three years, I had to see Blood Diamond as soon as it came out. It is an excellent movie. Although it was not filmed in Sierra Leone, it captures the reality of the country to a remarkable degree. There is a great deal of violence in this movie, but that violence is organic, realistic, fitting to what happened there. They even manage to convey the fact that the people are as astonished by this violence as we are; Sierra Leone used to be one of the safest countries in the world. The movie tells the facts about conflict diamonds quickly and accurately. DiCaprio's performance is impressive, certainly the best by him I've ever seen: he is totally believable as a white African. Jennifer Connelly's role is much smaller but she makes the most of it. Djiman Housou has enormous physical presence as the brave Mende fisherman. This movie just gets so many things right that the few places it departs from reality are entirely forgivable. I would heartily recommend this movie to everyone; it is the best Hollywood movie I've seen in years.