Django Unchained (2012)
89%RT Audience Score: 91%
Awards & Nominations: Won 2 Oscars
58 wins & 158 nominations total
Bold, bloody, and stylistically daring, Django Unchained is another incendiary masterpiece from Quentin Tarantino.
Django Unchained is like a rollercoaster ride through the Wild West, with Tarantino at the helm as your crazy conductor. It’s a mix of blood, guts, and humor that will leave you both entertained and slightly disturbed. While some may find it silly or infuriating, others will appreciate the film’s boldness in tackling the subject of slavery in a revisionist western. Overall, it’s a fun but flawed film that’s worth the ride.
Production Company(ies)
Therapy Content Roswell Films,
Distributor
Weinstein Co.
Release Type
Theatrical
Filming Location(s)
Evergreen Plantation, 4677 Highway 18, Edgard, Louisiana, USA
MPAA / Certificate
Rated R for strong graphic violence throughout, a vicious fight, language and some nudity
Year of Release
2012
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:SDDS Datasat Dolby Digital
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Aspect ratio:2.39 : 1
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Runtime:2h 45m
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Language(s):English, German, French, Italian
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Country of origin:United States
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Release date:Release Date (Theaters): Dec 25, 2012 Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 16, 2013
Genre(s)
Western/Drama
Keyword(s)
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Worldwide gross: $426,074,373
Worldwide gross (inflation-adjusted): $549,305,489
Worldwide gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 261
Worldwide tickets sold (est.): 59,902,452
US/Canada gross: $162,805,434
US/Canada gross (inflation-adjusted): $209,892,742
US/Canada gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 323
US/Canada opening weekend: $30,122,888
US/Canada opening weekend (inflation-adjusted): $38,835,163
US/Canada opening weekend ranking (inflation-adjusted): 329
Budget and Earnings Details
Production budget (est.): $100,000,000
Production budget (inflation-adjusted): $128,922,443
Production budget ranking: 277
Marketing and distribution budget (inflation-adjusted est.): $69,424,735
Box office net earnings to date (inflation-adjusted est.): $350,958,311
ROI to date (est.): 177%
ROI ranking: 694
Christoph Waltz – Dr. King Schultz
Leonardo DiCaprio – Calvin Candie
Samuel L. Jackson – Stephen
Kerry Washington – Broomhilda von Shaft
Walton Goggins – Billy Crash
Director(s)
Quentin Tarantino
Writer(s)
Quentin Tarantino
Producer(s)
Stacey Sher, Reginald Hudlin, Pilar Savone
Film Festivals
Awards & Nominations
Won 2 Oscars
58 wins & 158 nominations total
Academy Awards
Oscar Best Writing Winners, Oscar Nominees, Oscar Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen Winners, Oscar Winners
All Critics (296) | Top Critics (76) | Fresh (256) | Rotten (40)
Tarantino designed this revisionist western to blow people’s gaskets. Packed with physical comedy, bloody action and hell-bent revenge, it looks like a classic widescreen Sergio Leone western…
March 31, 2020
Anne Thompson
indieWire
TOP CRITIC
A good film, and a crazily entertaining film, until Tarantino does blow everything up, at which point it just becomes rather silly.
September 4, 2018
Deborah Ross
The Spectator
TOP CRITIC
The film is at times brilliant but mostly infuriating. It is a good movie in that masturbatory way most Tarantino films are good.
May 25, 2018
Roxane Gay
BuzzFeed News
TOP CRITIC
Django Unchained is a ruthless and romantic epic that is also filled with unbridled entertainment that challenges audiences, rather than coddling them.
September 7, 2017 | Rating: A
Candice Frederick
Reel Talk Online
TOP CRITIC
It’s an intelligently provocative, massively entertaining exercise in postmodern revisionism, highlighting how shamefully few movies Hollywood has ever made about slavery.
September 1, 2017 | Rating: 5/5
Larushka Ivan-Zadeh
metro.co.uk
TOP CRITIC
It was a mixed bag for me; some great moments scattered about amongst lots of humdrum, considering the subject matter.
August 15, 2017
Tambay Obenson
Shadow and Act
TOP CRITIC
It’s a fun but flawed film on the cusp of mastery that comes up slightly short.
June 23, 2022 | Rating: 7/10
Danilo Castro
Next Best Picture
Two Tarantinos directed each a half of the film, a dizzying way of telling a dizzying story, all of it to bring the western apocalypse, referencing Kill Bill (USA, 2003) and culminating with and ending that is so pop culture… [Full review in Spanish]
June 7, 2022
Erick Estrada
Cinegarage
I think to myself that “disappointed” is a strong word for it. But it’s not. Pieces work but somehow the movie just really didn’t gel.
January 10, 2022
Jason Adams
My New Plaid Pants
Packed with thrilling gunfights, tense drama, memorable quippy dialogue, and an impressive collection of breakout performances (minus Tarantino’s weird cameo), Django Unchained easily ranks among the very best films Tarantino has ever produced.
October 22, 2021
Toussaint Egan
Polygon
Gutsy and entertaining.
September 18, 2021 | Rating: A-
Kip Mooney
College Movie Review
Django is another example of Tarantino looking at cultural American history through the lens of privilege, twisting truth and fiction through a grotesque, funhouse mirror.
February 14, 2021 | Rating: 4/5
Tony Black
Cultural Conversation…
Plot
In 1858, a bounty-hunter named King Schultz seeks out a slave named Django and buys him because he needs him to find some men he is looking for. After finding them, Django wants to find his wife, Broomhilda, who along with him were sold separately by his former owner for trying to escape. Schultz offers to help him if he chooses to stay with him and be his partner. Eventually they learn that she was sold to a plantation in Mississippi. Knowing they can’t just go in and say they want her, they come up with a plan so that the owner will welcome them into his home and they can find a way.
Trivia
Goofs / Tidbits
Leonardo DiCaprio’s character, Calvin Candie, was originally written to be much older, but DiCaprio convinced Quentin Tarantino to make him younger so he could play the role.
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