Bad Casting

Rating: 7/10 (11 January 2004)

Albert Finney is a great actor, but he ain't from the South, no way, no how. Five Southern kids in the woods, with four of them white and the other black; it may be politically correct, but it's not correct for the time and place. And a black physician treating an elderly white guy, see problem above. Don't get me wrong, I actually liked the movie and found it quite moving at the end, but I think there were some major gaffes in it. Believe it or not, I actually found Nicole Kidman and Jude Law (in Cold Mountain) more believable as Southerners than Albert Finney.