The Last Of The Mohicans

Michael Mann's version of the creaky Fenimore Cooper classic takes place in a wilderness America circa 1757, where British colonists in New York state have become pawns in a power struggle between England and France during the French and Indian War. The principal characters are Hawkeye (Day-Lewis), a frontier woodsman more at home with his adopted Mohican father, Chingachgook (Native American activist Russell Means), and brother, Uncas (Eric Schweig), than the white British colonials; Cora (Madeleine Stowe) and Alice Munro (Jodhi May), comely daughters of a British colonel (Maurice Roeves); the insufferable Major Duncan Heyward (Steven Waddington), who has set his ...