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Director Hany Abu-Assad on His Kate Winslet-Idris Elba Survival Epic “The Mountain Between Us”
Already nominated for two Oscars in the foreign language category, the Dutch-Palestinian filmmaker takes on Charles Martin’s popular novel about two strangers whose charter plane crashes in the Rocky Mountains.
The premise of The Mountain Between Us may seem bland and unoriginal — survival stories tend to follow all the same tropes — but with two critically acclaimed actors leading the way, in this case, Idris Elba and Kate Winslet, there might be something more to this film.
