Inglourious Basterds
Running Time:
2 hrs. 32 min.Release Date:
August 21, 2009Directed by:
Quentin Tarantino$119M
Box Office Gross
What's The Story
This stylishly violent World War II epic weaves together two different storylines. An adolescent Jewish girl escapes to Paris after witnessing her family's brutal death at the hands of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa. There she reinvents herself as the owner of a movie theater and plots her revenge. At the same time, Lt. Aldo Raine leads a group of Jewish-American misfit soldiers undertake a "shock and awe" campaign behind enemy lines, torturing and brutally killing Nazis in an attempt to demoralize the Reich.Three Good Reasons
- 1For many moviegoers, Quentin Tarantino is reason enough, and he intends for this film to be his masterpiece. He calls it "some of the best writing I've ever done."
- 2Think of this manic revenge fantasy as the antidote to the rather depressing glut of soberly factual Holocaust films that crowded the holiday season.
- 3Finally, superstar Brad Pitt gets to actually work with Tarantino -- he had previously appeared only in the single script (True Romance) that the writer himself did not direct.
