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.
Leonardo DiCaprio
as Danny Archer
Djimon Hounsou
as Solomon Vandy
Jennifer Connelly
as Maddy Bowen
Kagiso Kuypers
as Dia Vandy
Arnold Vosloo
as Colonel Coetzee
Antony Coleman
as Cordell Brown
Benu Mabhena
as Jassie Vandy
Anointing Lukola
as N'Yanda Vandy
David Harewood
as Captain Poison
Basil Wallace
as Benjamin Kapanay
Jimi Mistry
as Nabil
Michael Sheen
as Simmons
