The Mountain Between Us

The Mountain Between Us (2017) is a survival drama with Idris Elba and Kate Winslet that you can watch online on iFILM. Two strangers are grounded at an airport before a storm: Ben is a surgeon racing to an operation, Ashley is a journalist rushing to her own wedding. They split the cost of a small charter plane, and it goes down in the snowbound mountains of Utah.

The pilot is dead, the phones are useless, and no rescue is coming. Ben wants to stay by the wreck; Ashley wants to walk out while they still can. What follows is a trek across frozen ridges with one dog, a few scraps of food, and a broken leg between them. Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad shot on real peaks instead of soundstage snow, adapting Charles Martin's novel. Part of it is a hard film about cold and fear; part of it is a quiet story of two people learning to need each other. Stream The Mountain Between Us (2017) online on iFILM.