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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: LAW,JUDE
EAN: 0786936242164
Label: Miramax Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Miramax Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Miramax Home Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 29, 2004
Running Time: 154 minutes
Sales Rank: 1299
Studio: Miramax Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: December 25, 2003
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Product Description:
A Confederate soldier struggles to return home to his beloved, while she struggles to survive the ravages of war.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 25-JAN-2005
Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com:
Freely adapted from Charles Frazier's beloved bestseller, Cold Mountain boasts an impeccable pedigree as a respectable Civil War love story, offering everything you'd want from a romantic epic except a resonant emotional core. Everything in this sweeping, Odyssean journey depends on believing in the instant love that ignites during a very brief encounter between genteel, city-bred preacher's daughter Ada (Nicole Kidman) and Confederate soldier Inman (Jude Law), who deserts the battlefield to return, weary and wounded, to Ada's inherited farm in the rural town of Cold Mountain, North Carolina. In an epic (but dramatically tenuous) case of absence making hearts grow fonder, Inman endures a treacherous hike fraught with danger (and populated by supporting players including Philip Seymour Hoffman, Natalie Portman, and others) while the struggling, inexperienced Ada is aided by the high-spirited Ruby (Renée Zellweger), forming a powerful farming partnership that transforms Ada into a strong, lovelorn survivor. The film's episodic structure slightly weakens its emotional impact, and it's fairly obvious that director Anthony Minghella is striving to repeat the prestigious romanticism of his Oscar®-winning hit The English Patient. For the most part it works, especially in the dynamic performances of Zellweger and Kidman, and the explosive 1864 battle of Petersburg, Virginia, is recreated with violent, percussive intensity. Those who admired Frazier's novel may regret some of the changes made in Minghella's adaptation (the ending is particularly altered), but Cold Mountain remains a high-class example of grand, old-fashioned filmmaking, boosted by star power of the highest order. --Jeff Shannon
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Rating:  - Zellweger is the Redeeming Factor in This Otherwise Trite Film
Take the plot from Moulin Rouge, move it from Paris to the Civil War South, tweak it a bit here and there, and you get the film version of Cold Mountain. Placing an overrated Australian actress and a British pretty boy in the lead roles of a film meant to be about the American South during the Civil War is beyond offensive.
Were there no American actors available to take on these parts? Not surprisingly, neither Kidman nor Law could effectively nail the accents, which made an already trite, ... Read More
Rating: - Wet Week
This was visually OK but overlong and not remarkable. As an australian I should be prejudiced but have to say Nicole Kidman overrated. I own this movie but would not sit through it again. One to ten, ten being best, give this one four.
Rating:  - common people overwhelmed by war
I loved the book and found the movie just as good, which is unusual.The Battle of the Crater [not in the book] is especially good--awful, really.Confederate armies on the verge of defeat are blown to Hell by an underground mine.Well-fed, well-trained Union soldiers advance into the breech only to be mowed down by the famished, desperate and shell-shocked survivors.Courage beyond the bounds of courage.The battle ends with mutilated Federal corpses piled up like cord wood...it's not a cinematic ... Read More
Rating: - Highly Recommended
This film is excellent.I was very impressed with the story line and greatly appreciated the characterizations by Nicole Kidman and Renee Zellweger.If you are interested in the Civil War era, this is an appropriate film and will hold your interest.
Rating:  - Good and long.
Good, (and very long), civil war era drama.One of the few movies that focuses on home life during the war, rather than the war itself.Some over dramatic scenes, (including a chicken attack of all things), takes the movie out of the "great movie" category, but it's still a very good story, with fantastic cinematography and surround sound.Worth a look, if you've got the time of course.
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