Patrick Fitzgerald

The Last of the Mohicans -- Three trappers protect a British Colonel's daughters in the midst of the French and Indian War.

Vic (Christopher Walken) is a struggling auto mechanic and family man with a safe cracking past and a lot of debt. When young Michael (Peter McDonald) appears on his doorstep, claiming to be a cousin from Ireland, Vic reluctantly offers shelter and assistance. Ironically, Michael has come to America to benefit from the man he believes is a successful mobster – as legend back home tells it. What he finds in Vic is completely different. When Michael joins forces with neighborhood guys looking for an easy score, Vic is backed into a corner where one last heist seems the only way out. The Opportunists is a story of a proud man, who can’t seem to do the right thing, no matter how hard he tries.

An epic adventure and passionate romance unfold against the panorama of a frontier wilderness ravaged by war. Academy Award winner Daniel Day-Lewis stars as Hawkeye, rugged frontiersman and adopted son of the Mohicans, and Madeleine Stowe is Cora Munro, aristocratic daughter of a proud British Colonel. Their love, tested by fate, blazes amidst a brutal conflict between the British, the French and Native American allies that engulf the majestic mountains and cathedral-like forests of Colonial America.

When rugged frontiersman Hawkeye (Daniel Day-Lewis) saves the Munro sisters -- two newly arrived English settlers -- from a Huron ambush, he ends up in the midst of the battle between the British and the French for control of the American colonies. Director Michael Mann's first-rate production also stars Madeleine Stowe as the Munro sister who wins Hawkeye's heart, and Wes Studi as the Huron warrior who has a score to settle with her father.