The mountain between us book review5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() When Walter suffers a sudden stroke and crashes the plane, Ben, Alex, and Walter's dog become stranded in the middle of nowhere without any way to call for help. Alex charters a plane from seasoned pilot Walter (Beau Bridges) and convinces Ben to come along. The only problem is the airlines are packed, and a violent snowstorm is on the horizon grounding all commercial air traffic. Ben Bass is a neurosurgeon who needs to catch a flight to Boston to perform an emergency surgery on a small boy. ![]() ![]() Photojournalist Alex Martin (Kate Winslet) just finished an assignment and is racing to Denver, Colorado to make it to her wedding to her fiancé Mark (Dermot Mulroney) on time. While The Mountain Between Us offers up the perfect scenario for a grand survival epic, this film doesn't reach peak potential. Generally speaking, it's tough to screw up a survival movie, but occasionally a rough one makes it to screens. ![]() A good survival movie provides the natural setting for a terrific human drama adventure where a character departs the comfort of their everyday life and lands in an extreme situation requiring ingenuity and fortitude. ![]()
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