![]() ![]() Several scholars of historical studies reviewed the film for its representation of North Carolina during the Civil War, especially the state's mountainous western region. Philip Seymour Hoffman as Reverend Solomon Veasey.With Stobrod and Sally, the family celebrates Easter together at Black Cove. Years later, it is revealed that Ada's night with Inman produced a daughter, Grace Inman, and that Ruby has married Georgia bearing two children. Ada finds and comforts Inman, who dies in her arms. Bosie is killed but Inman is mortally wounded. He then chases Teague's lieutenant, Bosie, and they exchange fast draws. Inman arrives and kills Teague and most of his posse in a gunfight. They return to the camp, and spend the night consummating their love.Īs they head home, Ada and Ruby are surrounded by Teague and his men, having captured and tortured Georgia for their whereabouts. Ada goes hunting for food and is reunited with Inman, who has finally returned to Cold Mountain. The women and Stobrod take shelter in an abandoned Cherokee camp. Georgia escapes and informs Ruby and Ada, who return to the scene to find Pangle dead and Stobrod badly wounded. While camping in the woods one night, Stobrod and Pangle are cornered by Teague and the Guard while Georgia secretly watches Pangle inadvertently reveals they are deserters, and the Guard shoot Pangle and Stobrod. The women celebrate Christmas with Stobrod, who has come to Cold Mountain with fellow deserters and musicians Pangle and Georgia. Ada and Ruby rescue Sally, who is traumatized and rendered mute. One day, Teague and his men kill Esco, and then torture Sally to coax her deserter sons out of hiding and kill them as well. Ada continues to write letters to Inman, hoping they will reunite and renew their romance.Īda has several tense encounters with Captain Teague, the leader of the local Home Guard who covets Ada and her property, and whose grandfather had once owned much of Cold Mountain. Together they bring Black Cove to working order and become close friends. She survives on the kindness of her neighbors, particularly Esco and Sally Swanger, who eventually send for Ruby Thewes, an experienced farmer (and Stobrod's daughter), to help. They take Ethan hostage and try to rape Sara, forcing Inman and Sara to kill them.īack in Cold Mountain, Ada's father has died, leaving her with no money and little means to run their farm in Black Cove. The next morning, three Union soldiers arrive demanding food. He eventually meets a grieving young widow named Sara and her infant child Ethan, and stays the night at her cabin. An elderly hermit living in the woods finds Inman and nurses him back to health. Veasey and the group are killed in a skirmish with Union cavalry, while Inman is left for dead. Junior betrays them to the Confederate Home Guard, who take Inman and Veasey away along with other deserters. They later meet a young man named Junior, and join him and his family for dinner. Exiled from his parish, Veasey joins Inman on his journey. Inman encounters corrupt preacher Veasey, and stops him from drowning his pregnant enslaved lover. Inman recovers and deserts, embarking on a long trek back to Cold Mountain. ![]() ![]() ![]() Inman is later wounded in a skirmish, and as he lies in a hospital near death, a nurse reads him a letter from Ada, who pleads for Inman to come home to her. He then comforts a dying acquaintance from Cold Mountain, while fellow soldier Stobrod Thewes plays a tune on his fiddle. Three years later, Inman fights in the Battle of the Crater and survives. Their courtship is interrupted by the war, but they share their first kiss the day Inman leaves for battle. Inman, a carpenter who has fallen in love with Ada Monroe, the preacher's daughter who came from Charleston, South Carolina to care for her father. When North Carolina secedes from the Union on May 20, 1861, the young men of Cold Mountain enlist in the Confederate States Army. It became a critical and commercial success grossing over $173 million and receiving seven nominations at the 76th Academy Awards, with Zellweger winning The film was a co-production of companies in Italy, Romania, and the United States.Ĭold Mountain was released theatrically on Decemby Miramax Films. The film tells the story of a wounded deserter from the Confederate army close to the end of the American Civil War, who journeys home to reunite with the woman he loves. It stars Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, and Renée Zellweger with Eileen Atkins, Brendan Gleeson, Kathy Baker, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Natalie Portman, Jack White, Giovanni Ribisi, Donald Sutherland, and Ray Winstone in supporting roles. The film is based on the bestselling 1997 novel of the same name by Charles Frazier. Cold Mountain is a 2003 epic period war film written and directed by Anthony Minghella. ![]()
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