Cold Mountain is a 2003 film based on the novel by Charles Frazier. The screenplay was written by Anthony Minghella, who also directed the film. The movie stars Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger, Brendan Gleeson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ray Winstone and Natalie Portman. Rock musician Jack White, and actors Cillian Murphy and Jena Malone also had roles in the film. Although set in Haywood County, North Carolina, it was filmed mostly in theTransylvania region of Romania.
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The movie opens depicting the events leading up to the American Civil War. Jude Law plays a Confederate soldier named W. P. Inman, who meets Ada (Kidman), and is at the fledgling stages of a relationship with her when he marches off to war. Inman experiences many battles and losses of friends, and as he is recovering in a hospital from a battle wound, decides to set off on foot for his home on Cold Mountain, in North Carolina, and to the woman he loves. On his journey he meets a corrupt preacher (Hoffman), an old and wizened woman, and a young widow (Portman). Through these people, he is able to continue his journey back to Ada and finds something out about himself
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