Storyline
In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts his unit and travels across the South, aiming to return to his young wife, Ada, who he left behind to tend their farm. As Inman makes his perilous journey home, Ada struggles to keep their home intact with the assistance of Ruby, a mysterious drifter sent to help her by a kindly neighbor.
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Cast
Giovanni Ribisi, Donald Sutherland, Jude Law, Ethan Suplee, Jena Malone, Nicole Kidman, Ray Winstone, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Natalie Portman, James Rebhorn, Charlie Hunnam, Brendan Gleeson, Taryn Manning, Cillian Murphy, Lucas Black, Kathy Baker, Renée Zellweger, Tom Aldredge, Eileen Atkins, Emily Deschanel, Jack White, William Boyer, Jamie Lee
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Reviews
100
As he did in “The English Patient,” Minghella artfully weds movie-movie romanticism with a dark historical vision. The man knows how to cast a spell.
100
Film Threat
As he did with “The English Patient,” director Minghella performs a miraculous juggling act, balancing his epic, sweeping story with the subtleties of character and detail that make Cold Mountain breathe.
100
A grand and poignant movie epic about what is lost in war and what's worth saving in life. It is also a rare blend of purity and maturity -- the year's most rapturous love story.
90
A somber, often downbeat depiction of human savagery and treachery as well as of human kindness. Writer-director Anthony Minghella has meticulously crafted an intimate epic.
90
The New Yorker
A much better movie about the South during the Civil War than “Gone with the Wind”--visionary, erotic, and tragic where the older movie is flossy, merely ambitious and self-important. [22 & 29 December 2003, p. 166]
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