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The Other Side of the Mountain

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6.3/10 • 31

1975-11-141h 43m

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One year before the Olympics, Jill Kinmont, an 18-year-old skiing champion, suffers a fall during competition and is left paralyzed. With her life now completely altered, she undergoes an exhausting fight to regain some of what she has lost.

Directors
Larry Peerce
Editors
Eve Newman

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  1. Marilyn Hassett

    Marilyn Hassett

    Jill Kinmont

  2. Beau Bridges

    Beau Bridges

    Dick Buek

  3. Belinda Montgomery

    Belinda Montgomery

    Audra Jo

  4. Nan Martin

    Nan Martin

    June Kinmont

  5. William Bryant

    William Bryant

    Bill Kinmont

  6. Dabney Coleman

    Dabney Coleman

    Dave McCoy

  7. Bill Vint

    Bill Vint

    Buddy Werner

  8. Hampton Fancher

    Hampton Fancher

    Lee Zadroga

  9. William Roerick

    William Roerick

    Dr. Pittman

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Aug 22, 2025

6/10

Skier Jill Kinmont (Marilyn Hassett) is looking to the forthcoming winter Olympiad when she has an accident on the slopes that renders her paraplegic. The prognosis for much by the way of improvement isn’t great, and she returns home to their mountainside home where her family are eager to help her make the best of things, but perhaps they take things a little too safely? That can’t be said for her boyfriend “Dick” (Beau Bridges) who is keen to get her out of bed and out of doors, into the pool or the car and back into some sort of varied and stimulating routine. Aside from her own recovery, she also has to deal with a society that isn’t - physically or attitudinally - equipped for someone with her mobility issues to hold down a job, and so she must also struggle to become a teacher. Can she now more metaphorically rather than physically get back to the top of the snow-capped peak? This biopic is a bit sentimentally put together with a fairly soporific soundtrack and a bit too much soft-focus style photography, but Hassett and Bridges both demonstrate a degree of encouraging chemistry as he inspires in her hope for a future that did look bleak. It’s a perfectly watchable story of human endeavour; it shows us that it isn’t just the injured who suffer the consequences of her accident and it illustrates a newfound strength of character which the denouement will really requires of her.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
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Keywords
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