Cold Mountain

Set near the end of the American civil war, solder Inman struggles to return home to his town of Cold Mountain in North Carolina to get back to this sweetheart Ada who he meet before the war. Escaping from the hospital, he begins the journey to his home.

Ada is left alone in the town, struggling to run her rural farm after the death of her father. She has trouble surviving on her own because she's not used to the farm life and lives on the kindness of her neighbors until one of them sends over a woman called Ruby, a feisty girl with a hard past to starts to show Ada how to look after herself and together they get the farm into working order. But a group of men are tracking down any deserters from the war, and are terrorizing anyone suspected helping them.

Meanwhile, Inman meets several people on his journey who help him on his way, including a corrupt priest and an old wizened woman who takes care his old battle wounds.

Based on the novel by Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain is the tale of two lovers torn apart and made to survive until they can reunite.

Staring Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Rene Zellweger, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Natalie Portman and musician Jack White. Directed by Anthony Minghella.