The Mountain Between Us and credibility

Strangers on the flight, exchanging glances Wondering on the flight, what were the chances We'd be sharing love, before the flight was through?

With apologies to Frank Sinatra, a minor tweak to the original lyric of a classic song about two strangers falling in love (actual title: Strangers In The Night) and made famous by Ol' Blue Eyes himself, becomes a perfect musical metaphor for The Mountain Between Us, a highly improbable and painfully sappy tale about two opposites stranded on a mountain top after a plane crash.

Sharing a near-death experience has been the catalyst for many a movie romance but as depicted by director Hany Abu-Assad this film, based on the book by Charles Martin with a screenplay by Chris Weitz and J Mills Goodloe, is about as believable as a $3 bill.