Cold Mountain (DVD)

Just a short time before going off to fight in the Civil War, Inman meets Ada Monroe, and the two fall in love at first sight. A couple of brief conversations and a lingering kiss later, Inman is gone, leaving Ada in Cold Mountain to write letters to him at every opportunity. Then her father dies, her life takes a change for the worse and she writes to Inman begging him to return to take care of her. Inman eventually gets the letter, and depressed at the state of the war he has been fighting in for months and months, he decides to turn deserter and return to Cold Mountain on foot, some thousand miles away. Along the way, however, he is thwarted at every turn, while back ...  Read the complete review

Cold Mountain is an epic romance based on the best selling novel written by Charles Frazier. Directed by Anthony Mingella (English Patient), this film tells the compelling tale of a man and a woman who are seperated by war and how their unfounded faith gives them strength to carry on and find each other again. We follow the path of Inman (Jude Law), a young Confederate soldier who escapes from the southern forces to wearily walk his way back home, where he hopes his true love will be expecting him. As he trudges along this path he is confronted by a frightening group of escaping slaves in a field of corn, a wicked and perverted reverend, an evil bordello ...  Read the complete review

It's that time of year when thoughts start to turn towards the Oscars with the years last contenders being released by the studios. There is no more aggressive studio at campaigning for Oscar success than Miramax, and this year their hopes are pinned on Cold Mountain, an historical drama based on the book of the same name by Charles Frazier. Directed by Anthony Minghella, previously a winner with The English Patient, and starring Nicole Kidman, another previous winner, it's a film that would seem to have the right pedigree for Oscar success, but which ultimately fails as a work of successful storytelling, despite having many things going for it along the way. ...  Read the complete review

I rented this DVD, having been put off going to the cinema by a friend who suggested it was not worthwhile. To be honest I'm glad I just rented it, it is not the kind of film I'd pay £6 to go and see, at least its not my idea of a night out. However, for a night in it was just about right and worth watching. Story Set during the American Civil War, in a town called Cold Mountain, the film provides a deep insight into the lives of the ordinary people affected by what went on around them. We learn what the war really meant to them, and, as with most wars, the unjustified suffering and losses incurred as a result of war. Whilst the young men ...  Read the complete review

Cold Mountain is a 2003 romance/ war film and is based on the novel by Charles Frazier. It is rated 18 due to scenes of violence and sex and it is 154 minutes long. Plot In the early 1860's and the Civil War is just about to happen. Inman is already in the middle of the war and we see him reading letters from Ada, the love of his life. As the war gets even more brutal, the men are tired but they get ambushed, leaving Inman in hospital to recover from a neck wound. We then go back to flashbacks of how Inman and Ada met, before the war started and to when Inman had to leave. Ada, is left all alone with her father in her new home until things go ...  Read the complete review