James Fenimore Cooper’s enduring adventure tale received a vigorous and visually stunning new treatment from Michael Mann. In 1757, along the East Coast of a pre-colonized America, the dwindled Mohican tribe’s adopted trapper Hawkeye (Day-Lewis) must outmaneuver a rival tribe and treacherous British soldiers. The actor once again transformed himself physically, in keeping with the role’s requirements, bulking up as well as learning combat and wilderness skills.