With absolutely no explanation as to how she either formulated or in fact realized this plan, the two walk out onto the tarmack and Some sort of flight since he has an operation to get to the next day, and just out of the gate she approaches Ben and tells him she has a She overhears Ben desperately trying to arrange Sound effects supposedly establishing winds whipping up, no evidence of any devastating storm).

(one kind of odd contextual issue the film faces in these early scenes is that the outdoor material shows bright, clear skies and, aside from some Alex arrives at what is assumedly the Boise airport to find out her flight has been canceled due to an impending When that plane's pilot, Walter (Beau Bridges), succumbs to a stroke while flying, the plane crashes, leaving Ben and Alex stranded onĪ wintry mountaintop where personal issues begin intruding into the story.įrom the get go, The Mountain Between Us hinges on an array of contrivances that some may find stretch the bounds of believability Both have supposedly important appointments which can't be canceled, and so team together to charter a private plane to get them to theirĭestinations. Prominent neurosurgeon and Alex Martin (Kate Winslet) is a journalist who are thrust together by the vagaries of fate when weather cancels theirįlights. While also attempting, perhaps unwisely, to inject a kind of tear jerking romantic subtext to some of the proceedings. The Mountain Between Us traffics in some traditional disaster and/or 'survival' film tropes

Lake City, something that's kind of oddlyīeen switched to Boise for the film adaptation). Of Utah where I was probably living when I read that children's book years ago (the book on which this film is based evidently actually begins in Salt Two grown ups surviving a plane crash in the depths of winter in the mountain range directly to the east of the Sierra Nevadas, the Uintas, in a region My adult self was considerably less 'excited' about a somewhat similar plot conceit informing The Mountain Between Us, a film which posits The wisdom of youth), just so I could experience the thrill of foraging in the forest and proving that Mother Nature was no match for human ingenuity. It was so exciting to my then probably ten or eleven year old self that I kind of wanted to be in a plane crash myself (so much for Still struggle to recall about a young boy who, along with a severely injured adult, survived a plane crash in the Sierra Nevadas in the depths of Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman, December 31, 2017īack in the Dark Ages when I was in elementary school and there were these things called books, I read a fantastic adventure story whose name I

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