It will cost you everything.
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 into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed countrywide.
- Harm to children
- Graphic violence
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and overwhelming.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- intimateepic
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Cast
- Leonardo DiCaprioDanny Archer
- Djimon HounsouSolomon Vandy
- Jennifer ConnellyMaddy Bowen
- Kagiso KuypersDia Vandy
- Arnold VoslooColonel Coetzee
- Antony ColemanCordell Brown
- Benu MabhenaJassie Vandy
- Anointing LukolaN'Yanda Vandy
- David HarewoodCaptain Poison
- Basil WallaceBenjamin Kapanay
Crew
- Edward ZwickDirector
- Charles LeavittScreenplay
- Eduardo SerraDirector of Photography
- James Newton HowardOriginal Music Composer
- Steven RosenblumEditor
- Edward ZwickProducer
- Genevieve HofmeyrProducer
- Darrell James RoodtProducer
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