In The Mountain Between Us, there ain't no mountain high enough, no valley low enough, nor a script absurd enough to keep Kate Winslet and Idris Elba from saving each other's lives - or indeed, their movie.
Romantically speaking, the best thing that ever happened to these two characters - total strangers who meet at Salt Lake City airport, urgently need to reschedule their cancelled flight, and join forces to charter one - is watching the affable pilot (Beau Bridges) suffer a perfectly-timed stroke and send them plummeting into the Rockies.
At first, being stranded in freezing wilderness counts as a solid inconvenience. Alex (Winslet) is meant to be getting married the next day, and has no way to contact the groom. Dr Ben (Elba) is meant to be performing brain surgery on a 10-year-old. Walter (Bridges) dies.
The passenger who preserves a reasonably sunny outlook is the latter's golden retriever, which waddles around the fuselage of the crashed plane blissfully unaware that he's just one bag of almonds and a few cookies away from being their only viable food source...