The summer after I'd graduated from high school Mom & I came to tech for freshman orientation. We stayed in Chitwood Hall and ate in the cafeteria and toured the campus. And we went to the Fox theater on 19th street and saw 'The Other Side of the Mountan'. I had no clue what it was going to be about. It probably started at the right time! We did not have a theater in Spur anymore and most of the movies I'd ever seen were when I spent time in the summer with Cathy. Movies were a treat.
This movie is about skier Jill Kinmont, a shoe-in for the 1956 Olympics until she severed her spine in an accident just before. It then shows her journey through rehab and breakup with her fiance who could not handle her condition and then losing the man she loved later in a plane crash. She recovered and went on to become a teacher. And she even finished her story in happy ending fashion in same movie, part 2.
The acting was not great. The actors were a little long in the tooth to be playing high schoolers but it was
an ok movie and there was even a tear or 2.
Beau Bridges played the love of her life who died in the plain crash. He was about 34 at the time and he looked then what his son Jordan Bridges looks like now. Look, a surprise separated at birth although not my typical find. They are father and son after all.
And in an odd note, in the 2nd movie (yep, I watched it too) Jill says every man she ever loved had died...even Buddy, the fiance who dumped her....he died at 28 in an avalanche. It would have been some kind of karma if he'd lived but been paralyzed, huh?
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