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Blood Diamond (Widescreen Edition) | 
 enlarge | Director: Edward Zwick
Actors: Leonardo Dicaprio, Jennifer Connelly, Djimon Hounsou, Michael Sheen, Arnold Vosloo
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Sales Rank: 7842
Format: AC-3, Subtitled, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, NTSC
Languages: French (Unknown), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Original Language), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Picture Format: Widescreen
Running Time: 143 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 111762
UPC: 085391117629
EAN: 0085391117629
ASIN: B000MZHW40
Publication Date: March 1, 2007
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| • | An ex-mercenary turned smuggler (Leonardo DiCaprio). A Mende fisherman (Djimon Hounsou). 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 across the alternately bea |
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Product Description
Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Hounsou, Jennifer Connelly. Two African men-one a smuggler from South Africa and the other a fisherman from Mende-form an unlikely alliance to rescue the fisherman's son and to find and take possession of a rare pink diamond, during the chaos of the 1990s civil war in Sierra Leone. 2006/color/138 min/R.
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Leonardo DiCaprio puts a handsome face on an ugly industry: in parts of Africa, diamond mining fuels civil warfare, killing thousands of innocents and drafting preteen children as vicious soldiers. DiCaprio (The Departed) plays Danny Archer, a white African soldier-turned-diamond-smuggler who gets wind of a large raw jewel found by Solomon Vandy, a native fisherman (Djimon Hounsou, In America) recently escaped from enslavement by a brutal rebel leader. Archer offers a deal: he'll help Vandy find his war-scattered family if Vandy will share the diamond with him. Drawn into this web of exploitation is journalist Maddy Bowen (Jennifer Connelly, Little Children), who agrees to help if Archer will tell her the details of how conflict diamonds make their way into the hands of the corporations who sell them to the Western world. DiCaprio is compelling because he never flinches from Archer's utter ruthlessness; Archer ends up doing the morally justifiable thing, but only because his desperate greed has led him to it. Hounsou and Connelly, though saddled with all the moral and political speeches, rise above the cant and keep the movie's treacherously formulaic plot rooted in human characters. But in the end, the story won't stick with you as much as the dead stillness in the child soldiers' eyes; the horror of African civil strife refuses to be contained by Blood Diamond's uplifting message--and the movie is all the more potent as a result. --Bret Fetzer
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