charles martin book the mountain between us

Ben Payne has just wrapped up a medical conference and is also eager to get back East for a slate of surgeries he has scheduled for the following day.

Ashley Knox is an attractive, successful writer, who is flying East for her much anticipated wedding. On a stormy winter night, two strangers wait for a flight at the Salt Lake City airport. Screenwriters: Chris Weitz, J.This week, to celebrate the release of the hotly anticipated film ‘The Mountain Between Us’ starring Idris Elba and Kate Winslet, The Book Fairies were out in force across the UK leaving copies of the book by Charles Martin that inspired the film.

Production company: Chernin EntertainmentĬast: Kate Winslet, Idris Elba, Beau Bridges, Dermot Mulroney In the words of Gloria Gaynor: “As long as I know how to love, I know I’ll stay alive.” In fact, everything looks so good that you don’t really want Alex and Ben to make it out, although the more they seem to be falling for one another, the more chances they seem to have. (The fact that Alex and Ben are of different races never once comes up, so that’s perhaps another advantage of being on the brink of death.)Ĭredit is also due to cinematographer Mandy Walker ( Hidden Figures), who captures the breathtaking settings (the film was shot in Canada) with widescreen compositions that plunge us into the middle of an endless snowy paradise. Not that the film plumbs any sort of psychological depth, although it does toggle a bit with Ben’s backstory, but the two actors easily incarnate a pair of clever, extremely likeable characters who both deserve to survive and deserve each other. No raw bison liver in these woods!īut what really helps Mountain overcome its far-fetched scenario is the pairing of Winslet and Elba, who know how to turn up the charm tenfold yet make Alex and Ben seem (mostly) like real people. And when the two eat it for dinner, it actually looks delicious. With another cast or another director this would all be pure fluff - which the film is during its more calculated moments - but Abu-Assad has both a lightness of touch and a visceral sense of place, grounding his romance in the rough splendors of the great outdoors while inserting enough humor to keep things cheerful: Even when Alex is attacked by a cougar, she offs it with a flare gun like Annie Oakley.

Charles martin book the mountain between us