They weighed us to balance each side of the plane, and rather sweetly all the American women looked at my weigh-in and said “you really don’t look that heavy!”)Īlex and Ben are less wimpish, but there’s a storm coming and as if that wasn’t bad enough, as they head over the snowy mountain ranges Walter has a stroke. (The only time I’ve been in a small plane was 20 years ago flying from Boston airport to Martha’s Vineyard. The tiny plane looks terrifying even before they get in, and I think I’d miss my wedding if it meant arriving the next day in comfort on a 737. It’s Alex who suggests chartering a small plane, flown by Walter (Beau Bridges) and his dog, to get them to Denver, the first stop on their journeys. Ben (Idris Elba) is a brain surgeon, smart in his expensive tailored wool coat, scheduled to perform surgery on a young boy the next morning. My second thought was, how on earth are they going to have sex with so many clothes on?Īlex (Kate Winslet) is an American photojournalist, heading to her own wedding and so much of a free spirit that when she finds out her flight is cancelled she’s happy to get changed into her wedding dress in the cab once she arrives. I’m not going to lie, my first thought when Alex and Ben survived the plane crash high up in the wintry mountains, with only a nameless dog and a dead pilot called Walter for company, was who’ll be eaten first: Walter or the labrador.
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