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Cold Mountain

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Cold Mountain

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Summary

Romantic drama set during the American Civil War, starring Jude Law, Nicole Kidman and Renée Zellweger. Virginia, 1864: following the Battle of the Crater at Petersburg, war-weary Confederate soldier WP Inman goes AWOL from a field hospital and begins the 300-mile trek back to his home, Cold Mountain in North Carolina, and his beautiful new wife.

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A star rating of 3 out of 5.

Dave Aldridge

The dream-team pairing of Jude Law and Nicole Kidman here delivers decidedly less on screen than it must have promised on paper. But it's not entirely the fault of the two leads, as Charles Frazier's award-winning novel dictates that they are kept apart for long stretches of this American Civil War drama. Law and Kidman play southern sweethearts who become separated when he heads off to fight for the Confederacy. The film then follows both his odyssey back from the front, with all the people and perils he encounters en route, and her struggle to survive on the cold mountain of the title. Along the way, Kidman is helped out by a drifter, played rather over-tetchily by Renée Zellweger. Director Anthony Minghella's film is beautifully shot by John Seale and has some great moments, but sadly these are too few and far between. With a running time of over two-and-a-half hours, the abiding impression is of an experience that seems to last almost as long as the Civil War itself.

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7.2/10

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Cast

rolenameWP InmanJude LawAda MonroeNicole KidmanRuby ThewesRenée ZellwegerReverend MonroeDonald SutherlandTeagueRay WinstoneStobrod ThewesBrendan GleesonReverend VeaseyPhilip Seymour HoffmanSaraNatalie PortmanSally SwangerKathy BakerEsco SwangerJames GammonJuniorGiovanni RibisiMaddyEileen AtkinsBosieCharlie HunnamFerry girlJena MalonePangleEthan SupleeGeorgiaJack White (3)OakleyLucas BlackLilaMelora WaltersBardolphCillian MurphyShylaTaryn ManningBlind manTom AldredgeDoctorJames Rebhorn

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rolenameDirectorAnthony Minghella

Details

Theatrical distributor

Buena Vista

Released on

2003-12-26

Languages

English

Guidance

Violence and sex scenes.

Available on

video, DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Colour

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