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- 2003
- R
- Miramax
- 2 h 34 m
- 2003
- R
- Miramax
- 2 h 34 m
Summary Based on one of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, Cold Mountain sets off on a true American odyssey through a time that saw some of the greatest ferocity -- and heroism -- the nation has ever known. (Miramax)
Directed By: Anthony Minghella
Written By: Charles Frazier, Anthony Minghella
- 2003
- R
- Miramax
- 2 h 34 m
- 2003
- R
- Miramax
- 2 h 34 m
Cold Mountain
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7.0
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Summary Based on one of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, Cold Mountain sets off on a true American odyssey through a time that saw some of the greatest ferocity -- and heroism -- the nation has ever known. (Miramax)
Directed By: Anthony Minghella
Written By: Charles Frazier, Anthony Minghella
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 41 Critic Reviews
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83% Positive
34 Reviews
34 Reviews
15% Mixed
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2% Negative
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1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 41 Critic Reviews
73
83% Positive
34 Reviews
34 Reviews
15% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
2% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
As he did with "The English Patient," Minghella has reshaped the novel’s structure, zeroed in on what matters cinematically and dramatically upped the emotional stakes.
A somber, often downbeat depiction of human savagery and treachery as well as of human kindness. Writer-director Anthony Minghella has meticulously crafted an intimate epic.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 127 User Ratings
7.0
73% Positive
93 Ratings
93 Ratings
19% Mixed
24 Ratings
24 Ratings
8% Negative
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 127 User Ratings
7.0
73% Positive
93 Ratings
93 Ratings
19% Mixed
24 Ratings
24 Ratings
8% Negative
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
Absolutely flawless. Anthony Minghella's finest work. Cold Mountain is an often grim look at romance during the Civil War. Rarely does a proper romance fulfill our needs for emotion, excitement and comic relief.
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You can talk about this movie whatever you want, but it will not change the fact that it is excellent. The cast is fantastic, just like the story. If you look at other films that came out that year, and see that half of them are really bad, this movie is fantastic.
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Though Law and Kidman spend much of the movie apart, Minghella and ace editor Walter Murch arrange their interweaving subplots like a running dialogue between two lovers, each compelled to survive on the thin hope that they'll be reunited.
This is what makes the distinctly unromantic Cold Mountain' such a breath of fresh air. Its battles are hideous bloodbaths.
Zellweger looks like a big movie star roughing it à la Paris Hilton, and as if this weren't distracting enough, the hills are alive with big acting names from both sides of the Atlantic who pop up as help or hindrance to Inman's pilgrim's progress while straining, with variable success, for credible Southern twangs.
This Civil War epic romance is exquisitely shot, lovingly designed and populated with talented name actors. In terms of pedigree and sheer, lush filmmaking, the movie has class written all over it. And that's part of the problem.
The result is a flabby, episodic phantasmagoria.
The director manages to create a very realistic atmosphere throughout the movie, the cast was excellent and so was the music, I don't understand how can someone say that this is not a love story, you can see it right from the beginning. Great performances from most of the actors on the movie.This is a must for your movie collection.
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The film shows you how war can cause the consequences of people, and then everything ends badly for the protagonists and when you see the serious film how the unjust win and the innocent suffer. But in the end everything is going to happen if they put their great efforts so that things go well and thus good people are those who help others and that is why this film gave me something good. This movie is totally a masterpiece!!! The truth is that the film catches you and shows you how the bad guy triumphs and the innocent (good people) die, but at the end of the film it shows you how people change for the good of others, because it is a change of heart to help to the neighbor and everything can change for the community. There are only two kinds of people in the world, good and evil. But in the end, with the help of others, everything will work out for everyone.
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the land will not heal..
Cold Mountain
A typical love story set in a war zone that wanders onto the same lash and delivers it convincingly but unfortunately its the same meal we have been having for the course of its runtime. Anthony Minghella; also the director of The English Patient, is back with a similar project no matter how much admirable, in the end it all seems been-here-done-that. The feature scores majestically on performance level where Nicole Kidman, Jude Law and Renee Zellweger are doing some of their career's best work. Cold Mountain; being a character driven feature, goes deep into it where the priority is set to project the bonding between the lead characters (Jude restraining himself from being seduced and Nicole suffering through loss was the perfect way to bind this parallel roles on screen) which is fulfilled utterly by the script.
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Production Company
Miramax,
Mirage Enterprises,
Bona Fide Productions,
Blossom Films,
Castel Film Romania,
Cattleya
Release Date Dec 25, 2003
Duration 2 h 34 m
Rating R
Tagline If hate sends men to war, then it must be love that brings them home. ( Moviepix Canada)
Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Win & 8 Nominations
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Win & 7 Nominations
BAFTA Awards
• 2 Wins & 13 Nominations
