What is Django Unchained about?
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
Does it have a happy ending? (spoiler-safe)
Yes. It lands on a happy note.
A freed slave and a German bounty hunter deliver bloody, darkly-comic justice across the antebellum South.
Pulpy and epic, with dry wit. A full-attention watch at a brisk pace. Emotionally it is heavy.
86
Must Watch
CouchRot Score, from 21 cinephile ratings
Streaming on Starz.
Django Unchained parents guide
Strong sex and nudity, and extreme gore, which is more than most R titles carry. Beyond that, brutal violence and frequent strong language.
- Scare
- Mildly scary
- A few tense or eerie moments.
- Jump scares
- None noted
- Gore
- Extreme gore
- Our top level for gore.
- Violence
- Brutal violence
- Our top level for violence.
- Sex and nudity
- Strong
- Strong means explicit or repeated sex, extended nudity, or sexual assault shown on screen, attempted or completed, even partly off screen. Any one of these is enough.
- Language
- Strong
- Frequent strong profanity or slurs.
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Three questions
- Is Django Unchained scary?
- Only a little. Django Unchained has a few tense moments, nothing that follows you to bed.
- How gory is Django Unchained?
- Extreme gore and brutal violence. If graphic gore is a dealbreaker, skip it.
- What is Django Unchained rated, and is it OK for kids?
- No. It is rated R, with strong sex and nudity, brutal violence, and frequent strong language.
ConfidenceDialing In
21 ratings deep. Getting dialed in.
ConsensusMostly Agree
DividedNear unanimous
How the 21 ratings land
Cast and crew
Directed byQuentin Tarantino
StarringJamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, Walton Goggins
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