She shoots a flare at the big cat, killing it. Alex is found by a cougar, who viciously fights and wounds the dog. He agrees to climb a ridge to see if there is any sign of a road, but sees nothing but mountains and narrowly avoids falling down the side.Īlex goes through Ben's things and listens to a message from his wife saying, 'I'm glad to have had this time with you'. Stranded for days with dwindling supplies, Alex grows skeptical that they will be rescued, although Ben wants to wait for help with the plane's wreckage. Once conscious, Alex thinks Ben has a better chance of finding help if he leaves her behind, but Ben refuses. Ben attends to her cuts and injured knee, and buries the pilot while she is unconscious. Ben, Alex, and Walter's Labrador Retriever survive the crash but Alex has injured her leg quite badly. Walter, who has not filed a flight plan, suffers a fatal stroke mid-flight, and the plane crashes on a mountaintop in the High Uintas Wilderness. Ben Bass ( Idris Elba) and photojournalist Alex Martin ( Kate Winslet) hire private pilot Walter ( Beau Bridges) to get them from Idaho to Denver for connecting flights to Alex's wedding in New York and Ben's emergency surgery appointment in Baltimore. Plot Īfter their flight is canceled due to stormy weather, neurosurgeon Dr. The film premiered on September 9, 2017, at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival, and was theatrically released in the United States on October 6, 2017, by 20th Century Fox. It stars Idris Elba and Kate Winslet as a surgeon and a journalist, respectively, who survive a plane crash, with a dog, and are stranded in the High Uintas Wilderness with injuries and harsh weather conditions. Mills Goodloe, based on the 2011 novel of the same name by Charles Martin. I couldn't put it down.The Mountain Between Us is a 2017 American survival drama film directed by Hany Abu-Assad and written by Chris Weitz and J. It was a good read during our 90-degree-temp days. The author describes the harrowing trek to find civilization with such accuracy that I felt the cold and the snow. They must find a way down the mountain, through the snow and ice, with little idea of which direction they are going. Ben and Ashley are injured and there is little hope for rescue. Mid-flight the pilot has a heart attack and crashes the plane in the mountains. He offers the other passenger seat to Ashley. Payne charters a small plane to take him to Denver, hoping to catch another flight back home ahead of the storm. Fellow passenger Ashley Knox is also flying back East for her wedding. Ben Payne must find a way back East to perform scheduled surgeries. When a winter storm strands passengers in the Salt Lake City airport, Dr.
I got lucky in finding both when I read "The Mountain Between Us," by Charles Martin.
If I learn something new, that is just a bonus. When I read a "summer book," I want to be entertained.
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