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
Mirage Enterprises Mr. Ripley" (1999), "Iris" (2001), and "Cold Mountain" (2003). By the time of Pollack's death in 2008, "Time" magazine noted he had become "a much more prolific producer, with the pictures he made through his Mirage company tending to be smaller in scale, more eccentric, more personal than his studio pictures had been and he enjoyed godfathering them." Mirage Enterprises Mirage Enterprises was an American film production company founded by director and producer Sydney Pollack in 1985. Sydney Pollack was known for being a director and occasional actor. He began producing his own films in the 1970s, then started producing