<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $35 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $62.8 million </Td> </Tr> <P> The Mountain Between Us is a 2017 American romantic survival drama film, directed by Hany Abu - Assad, and written by Chris Weitz and J. Mills Goodloe, based on the 2011 novel of the same name by Charles Martin . It stars Idris Elba and Kate Winslet as a surgeon and a journalist, respectively, who survive a plane crash, with a dog, and are stranded in High Uintas Wilderness with injuries and harsh weather conditions . The film premiered on September 9, 2017, at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival, and was theatrically released in the United States on October 6, 2017, by 20th Century Fox . </P> <P> In January, after the cancellation of their flight out of Boise Airport to Denver, due to stormy weather, neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Bass (Idris Elba) and photojournalist Alex Martin (Kate Winslet) hire Walter (Beau Bridges), a local private pilot to get them to Salt Lake City, for connecting flights to Alex's wedding in New York (scheduled the following day) and Ben's emergency surgery appointment in Baltimore, Maryland . As they board a small plane, along with Walter's dog, Alex asks Walter if he has filed a flight plan, to which he says no, he doesn't need to, as "...it's still light out ...", they're flying VFR, and they'll beat the approaching storm . He tells them he flew combat missions in Vietnam, so unless somebody is shooting at them, they'll get there . Minutes after takeoff, Walter points out they're over the High Uintas Wilderness,' a million acres of pure ass wilderness' . Alex notices the storm is ahead, as Walter suffers a stroke, causing the plane to crash on a mountaintop . Ben, Alex, and the dog survive, with various injuries, but Walter is killed . </P>

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