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starring: Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger, Eileen Atkins, Brendan Gleeson directed by: Anthony Minghella List Price: $14.99 Price: $5.50 You Save: $9.49 (63%)Prices subject to change. See similar products Read customer reviews Related Items:
Collectible Price: $21.00 Third Party New Price: $5.50 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 0786936242331 Format: Color, NTSC Label: Miramax Home Entertainment Languages: Manufacturer: Miramax Home Entertainment Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Miramax Home Entertainment Release Date: June 29, 2004 Running Time: 154 minutes Studio: Miramax Home Entertainment Theatrical Release Date: December 25, 2003
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Editorial Review: 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 Customer Reviews Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Miscasted on all frontsIf you are looking for the same kind of otherworldly feeling in this movie as was found in Charles Frazier's magnificent novel you will be surely disappointed. This film was totally miscast in every respect. First of all in Frazier's novel the southern ... Read More Rating: - Terrible!This movie was not that good. In the first place, it was excessively voilent. I know this movie takes place during the civil war and it was a voilent time, but I find it particulary unbearable because of several scenes. I also was disgusted by the sexual ... Read More Rating:  - Zellweger is the Redeeming Factor in This Otherwise Trite FilmTake 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 ... Read More Rating: - Wet WeekThis 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 warI 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 ... Read More see more Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Related Items:
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