Cold Mountain (film) Cold Mountain (film) Cold Mountain is a 2003 epic war film written and directed by Anthony Minghella. The film is based on the bestselling 1997 novel of the same name by Charles Frazier. It stars Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, and Renée Zellweger with Eileen Atkins, Brendan Gleeson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Natalie Portman, Giovanni Ribisi, Donald Sutherland, and Ray Winstone in supporting roles. The film tells the story of a wounded deserter from the Confederate army close to the end of the American Civil War, who is on his way home to the woman he loves. The film was a co-production
Tom Ripley Ripley believes that getting his own way is worth whatever price anyone else might have to pay. We all have a little of that in us." In his 2001 book "Malignant Self-Love: Narcissism Revisited", Sam Vaknin writes that Ripley (as portrayed in the 1999 film "The Talented Mr. Ripley") meets five of the seven criteria for antisocial personality disorder, and displays narcissistic traits. Across the five books, Ripley commits homicide nine times, and indirectly causes an additional five deaths. Highsmith's first three Ripley novels have been adapted into films. "The Talented Mr. Ripley" was filmed as "Purple Noon (French: Plein