Foxx, who won an Oscar for 2004’s Ray, played Django Freeman, a formerly enslaved man who sets out to rescue his wife (Kerry Washington) from a merciless Mississippi plantation owner (Leonardo ...

Foxx plays Django Freeman in 2012's "Django Unchained." The film also stars Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, and Samuel L. Jackson.

It would take a filmmaker of Tarantino’s prowess to tackle slavery in the south–as he did Nazis in World War II with Inglourious Basterds. It’s a buddy buddy movie about a sophisticated ...