‘The Last of the Mohicans’ (1992)
Michael Mann’s The Last of the Mohicans (1992) is a thrilling and passionate adaptation of an American classic and one of Daniel Day-Lewis’s finest roles. Day-Lewis plays Hawkeye, a white man who has been raised in the colonial wilds of New York by a Native American man. Soon Hawkeye, his father, and adopted brother are caught up in the complicated tangle of the French and Indian War. Hawkeye and his brother specifically find themselves responsible for the safety of a British commander’s beautiful daughters, and Hawkeye falls hard for the older daughter, a spirited young woman named Cora (Madeleine Stowe). Gorgeous, intense, and accompanied by one of the best original scores in history, The Last of the Mohicans is the epitome of a modern film classic.