The English Patient

Nine Academy Awards(R) including Best Picture went to this blockbuster drama starring Ralph Fiennes as a horribly wounded burn victim whose tragic memories of a lost love (Kristin Scott Thomas) slowly reemerge as he convalesces in an Italian monastery under the care of a dedicated nurse (Juliette Binoche) as World War II rages around them. Willem Dafoe, Naveen Andrews and Colin Firth costar in this haunting adaptation of the best-selling novel by Michael Ondaatje.