Cold Mountain (Two Disc Steelbook Collector's Edition) [2003]

See Larger Image	List Price: £17.99 Our Price: £9.97 Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Manufacturer: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm Starring: Jude Law, Donald Sutherland, Jena Malone, Eileen Atkins, Kathy Baker Directed By: Anthony Minghella Average Customer Rating:
Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Binding: DVD EAN: 8717418152253 Format: PAL Label: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm Manufacturer: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm Region Code: 2 Release Date: 2008-06-09 Running Time: 148 Studio: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm Theatrical Release Date: 2003
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Editorial Reviews: Freely adapted from Charles Frazier's beloved bestseller, Cold Mountain boasts an impeccable pedigree as a respectable American 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 film-making, boosted by star power of the highest order. --Jeff Shannon
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: If you look closely Comment: Jenna Malone (Donnie Darko) has a 5 second part as the rivers 'Ferry Tender' who "for an extra $30 will gladly pull off her dress" for some extra income...and then is shot dead as she rows. Literally a 5 second part. I didnt know it was her until the credits Natalie Portman has a heart wrenching part of a woman despairingly alone, possibly isolated, with a sick baby, husband at war, possibly dead, and so eager for some company, male touch and affection, that she invites Inman from barn into her bed, While he obliges and recognizes her need for SOMETHING in the way of warmth, he does warn her that he loves another. Meanwhile he saves her from the savage behavior of some wandering Union troops; In the film-he is suddenly moving onwards again [SPOILERS] in the deleted scenes, as things get back to normal and as Inman is skinning her hog, she walks out in shock to say that her baby is head. Stands at a table where Inman has his clothing stacked with his pistol on top. She seemingly innocently grabs them to take into the cabin. A few moments later we hear a shot. Inmans face goes blank. Here Portman should have recieved an award, as she aquitted herself well, and you felt for her the whole time- this, this little mobsters daughter turned wanna-be killer on THE PROFESSIONAL Jack White did surprisingly well as a young wanderer, Alabama-not a touch of rock star ego visible All in all a Very good if not great film. Probably should have been another 15 mins longer More Reviews