The Other Side of the Mountain

8/22/2025

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 s