Directed by: Anthony Minghella Starring: Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renee Zellweger, Kathy Baker, James Gammon, Brendan Gleeson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Charlie Hunnam, Jena Malone, Natalie Portman, Giovanni Ribisi, Donald Sutherland Release Date: December 25th 2003 (wide). Runtime: 153 minutes MPAA Rating: R (for violence and sexuality) Box Office: $95,633,000 (US total) Distributor: Miramax Films Based on the well known novel by Charles Frazier the story follows Inman, played by Jude Law, a wounded confederate soldier who is on a perilous journey home to his mountain community, hoping to reunite with his prewar sweetheart, Ada, played by Nicole Kidman. 1860s America -- In a country torn in two by war, it will take an extraordinary journey for people to come together as one. This journey is at the heart of COLD MOUNTAIN, Charles Frazier’s National Book Award-winning novel about love, friendship, nature, survival and the changing of America at the end of the Civil War, and now a motion picture directed by Academy Award-winner Anthony Minghella (“The English Patient”) and starring a cast headed by Jude Law, Nicole Kidman and Renee Zellweger. COLD MOUNTAIN follows the intertwined paths of three people equally uprooted by war, three people whose physical and spiritual survival comes to depend entirely on one another. First, there is the Confederate soldier Inman (Jude Law) who, wounded in battle, fights his way home to the woman he loves – crossing a nation at war with itself. As he treks towards his beloved Ada (Nicole Kidman), driven by memories, Inman encounters slaves and rebels, fends off soldiers and bounty hunters and finds unexpected friends and dangerous enemies at every turn. In a parallel journey of faith and newfound bravery, Ada’s road is no easier as this once well-bred, sheltered woman must take on a perilous world alone, bereft of companionship or knowledge of the outside world, and protect her father’s farm from ruin and attack. Rescue arrives for Ada in the unlikely form of a feisty drifter named Ruby (Renee Zellweger), who becomes an equal part of the story as she teaches Ada about strength, self-reliance and an astonishing natural world Ada has never known. Now, as they come ever closer to one another, Inman, Ada and Ruby weave a story about the longing for home after being in the wilderness, the longing for peace after the brutality of war, and the longing for love and family at the heart of the American experience. COLD MOUNTAIN is directed by Anthony Minghella and written by Minghella from Charles Frazier’s novel. The film is produced by Academy Award winner Sydney Pollack, William Horberg, Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa. Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renee Zellweger, Donald Sutherland, Ray Winstone, Brendan Gleeson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Giovanni Ribisi, Natalie Portman, Kathy Baker, James Gammon, Eileen Atkins, Charlie Hunnam, Jack White, Jena Malone, Lucas Black and Ethan Suplee. Minghella reunites on COLD MOUNTAIN with his Academy Award winning production team from “The English Patient” which includes: director of photography John Seale, editor Wal frter Murch and costume designer Ann Roth, all of whom also worked on Minghella’s “The Talented Mr. Ripley.” They are joined on this production by six-time Academy Award-nominated production designer Dante Ferretti. Detailed Information and Picture Gallery