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Blood Diamond

Blood Diamond

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 8, 2006

Runtime

2h 23m

Genres

Drama, Thriller, Action

User Score

75%

Original Title

Blood Diamond

Production Companies

Virtual Studios, Spring Creek Pictures, Bedford Falls Productions, Initial Entertainment Group, Lonely Film Productions GmbH & Co. KG., Warner Bros. Pictures, Liberty Pictures

Director

Edward Zwick

Budget

$100,000,000

Revenue

$171,700,000

Description

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.