This is a truly wonderful film.

I was a sophomore in college when this film came out and I saw it at a nearby theatre and was just haunted by it and cried my eyes out. Later it came to the small theatre in the small town where my college was located and played for three nights in a row - I sat through it all three nights!!! I think this film, more than anything else, brought home to me that even when you're young life can change in the blink of an eye. You have a feeling at that age that you're invincible, or you have fifty or more years before you worry about death. But you may not, so you need to make every day count and live it to the fullest - and if life's experiences leave you where you can't do what you've done before, then there's another road to take that can be just as fulfilling.

I recommend this film to everyone, and yes, it's a tearjerker, but sometimes one needs a good cleansing cry and this is the perfect movie for it!

I recall watching this film while ill off school aged 12, now 38 and still remember all the emotions I felt then.

I normally am not taken with tearjerkers, and I didn't quite cry here, but I found this enormously moving, well-directed and sensitively acted. It's an excellent film that was big in the '70s but doesn't seem to get the attention it deserves today. 9/10 stars from me.

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Not only did I see "The Other Side of the Mountain" when it first came out, but I've read both books: The Other Side of the Mountain, and the Other Side of the Mountain, Part II.

I enjoyed the film "The Other Side of the Mountain.", but felt that the book was better.

I also felt sorry when Jill's close friend, Audra Jo Nicholson, came down with polio and was also permanently paralyzed, sorry about Jill's accident, and sorry about the patronizing, insulting manner that her ex-boyfriend, Buddy Werner, treated her after he learned about the extent of her injury.

As some people on here accurately point out, Jill found happiness with Dick Buek, but was unhappy when he was killed in a plane crash while doing power stalls over Donner Lake, in 1957.