Cliff Notes

Gabe is a cliffhanger. He’s one of the best in the world. All of his friends are cliffhangers too. They love it more than anything—except each other. The movie Cliffhanger starts out with a majestic shot of a mountain chain hanging as long as the eye can see while an orchestra swells with the panoramic view. We see Gabe cliffhanging (of course!) 4,000 feet up in the air. Some of his cliffhanging friends wait at the top of a precipice to be rescued by Gabe. They are his friends Tucker and some girl that looks like Jennifer Grey but isn’t. A helicopter manned by Frank (more on him later) and Gabe’s main squeeze, Jessie, comes to pick them up. The only way the stranded cliffhangers can be rescued is to have them shimmy across a cable from the cliff they are on to the one Frank parked his chopper on.

Tucker gets across to the other side no problem. Jennifer Grey goes next, only to have her harness break. Then she drops the teddy bear she had in her backpack. This is not Jennifer Grey’s day. Gabe scurries out on the line to save her. He grabs her by the hand just in time. Things are going great until Jennifer Grey’s hand comes out of her glove and falls to her untimely death. Gabe couldn’t be more riddled with guilt. Tucker couldn’t be more upset at his friend for letting his best girl plummet to aforementioned death.