Blood Diamond

Theatrical - Wide 2006-12-08

Cast Leonardo DiCaprio Djimon Hounsou Jennifer Connelly Arnold Vosloo David Harewood
Directed by Edward Zwick
Written by Charles Leavitt

Box Office Gross: $171,720,398

Running Time: 143 minutes

Language: English

Production Company: Virtual Studios, Spring Creek Pictures, Bedford Falls Productions, Initial Entertainment Group, Lonely Film Productions, Warner Bros. Pictures, Liberty Pictures

Genres: Action Drama Thriller

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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... See more into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed countrywide.

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