Michael Mann (Heat) brings James Fenimore Cooper's novel to the screen in this epic story of a woodsman, Hawkeye (Daniel Day-Lewis) living amongst British colonists in mid-18th century America. Sharing the values of his adopted Mohican father, Chingachgook (Russell Means), Hawkeye is asked to lead two british sisters (Madeleine Stowe and Jodhi May) through dangerous territory to their father's fort at the height of the French-Indian war.