Down From The Mountain DVD

Advantages: Acting
Disadvantages: Ending

...You are either going to hate or love this movie - or in my case both. This movie is about two guys who go up a mountain to tend to some sheep, as time goes on they grow closer and come down completly different people. They continue to meet over the years and we see how their lives change from them becoming family men and taking on responsibilities while still keeping up the secret relationship they share. The movie skirts around predjudice, violence, homophobia but never really deals with the big issues. And as for the ending, well we are left feeling that nothing has been resolved, we have learned nothing new, I understand why this movie won awards, the acting is superb but overall it is just a very depressing movie.... Read review

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...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... Read review

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Advantages: The feel good factor and lovely scenery.
Disadvantages: Some of the humour!

...The Englishman who went up a Hill, but came down a mountain, is the story of a young cartographer (mapmaker) who is working for the Ordinance Survey Corps during the 1914-18 War. The story is set in 1917, in the small Welsh village at the foot of a mountain, just inside the border. The "first mountain inside of Wales"! Anson played by Hugh Grant arrives with fellow mapmaker, his commander, the alcoholic George Garrad (Ian McNeice) arrive and measure, Ffynnon Garw, the local landmark. The mapmaker upsets an entire town when Anson, after initial measurements, declares their prized landmark too short to be called a 'mountain'. The quaint Welshmen and women of this village are called to action when the ‘mountain’ is found to be twenty feet too short of officially being a mountain. It is really a ‘hill’! The local... Read review

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