THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN

Marilyn Hassett, Beau Bridges

Universal; Directed by Larry Peerce

Rated PG; 103 minutes; 1975

This is the true story of Championship skier Jill Kinmont, a shoo-in for a berth on the 1956 Winter Olympics team, who suffered a near fatal accident while racing down the slopes in the 1955 Snow Cup Race at Alta, Utah. With five crushed vertebrae and a severed spinal cord, the young Californian found herself almost totally paralyzed from the neck down. Her brilliant athletic career was finished…but it was not her will to live a meaningful life. Thanks to the love of Dick Buek, an irrepressible skier-flyer who chides her for letting herself go, she is pushed to the limits of her physical strength.