The Other Side of the Mountain

  • Romance
  • Drama
11/14/1975
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One year before the Olympics, Jill Kinmont, an 18-year-old skiing champion, suffers a fall during competition and is left paralyzed. With her life now completely altered, she undergoes an exhausting fight to regain some of what she has lost.

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  • Geronimo1967

    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 isnt 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 cant 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 isnt - physically or attitudinally - equipped for someone with her mobility issues to hold down a job, and so she ...

    August 22, 2025

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