Sliding Doors (1998)

• Year: 1998
• Released: 01 May 1998
• Country: United Kingdom, United States
• Adwords: Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award6 wins & 4 nominations total
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120148/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/sliding_doors
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/sliding-doors
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: PG-13
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
• Runtime: 99 min
• Writer: Peter Howitt
• Director: Peter Howitt
• Cast: Gwyneth Paltrow, John Hannah, John Lynch
• Keywords: time travel, double life, chance, commercial, marketing,

	6.7/10
	59/100
	65% – Critics
	77% – Audience

Sliding Doors Storyline

Arriving at work one morning, Helen discovers that she had been unjustifiably sacked from her PR job. She is returning home when an amazing thing happens, time reverses itself for a few seconds and a second version of herself is created. In one reality Helen catches the tube train, meets James and arrives home to find her loathsome Lothario lover Gerry cheating on her with his ex-girlfriend Lydia. In the other reality, Helen misses the tube train, gets mugged, goes to hospital and eventually arrives home to find Gerry alone in the shower. The two realities move forward in tandem; in one Helen leaves Gerry and forms a happy, new, loving relationship with James; in the other Helen’s live becomes more and more wretched as she takes on two jobs to support her worthless, cheating boyfriend as he supposedly writes his novel but in fact carries on a torrid affair with Lydia.

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A Delightful Romance, With a Wonderful Screenplay

In London, the public relation Helen (Gwyneth Paltrow) is fired from her position in a PR company. While returning home, she does not catch the train in the subway. But in another possibility of her life, she catches the train in the subway. The story shows two parallel lives of Helen: in one life, she stays with her boyfriend Gerry (John Lynch), and in the other life, she finds that Gerry cheats her with Lydia (Jeanne Tripplehorn) and falls in love with James Hammerton (John Hannah).

“Sliding Doors” is a delightful romance, with a wonderful screenplay. There are excellent lines, and the chemistry between Gwyneth Paltrow and John Hannah is marvelous. John Lynch is a good actor, but is completely miscast in the role of a man disputed by two gorgeous women. I have just watched this movie for the third time, and I still love it. It is very interesting that in 1998, two movies presented similar concepts of different situations depending on a minor event: “Sliding Doors” and “Lola Rennt”. This theme is fascinating, but there are many unfair reviews of this film in IMDb, which is one of my favorite movie. My vote is ten.

Title (Brazil): “De Caso com o Acaso” (“Having an Affair With Fortune”)

Note: On 07 January 2017, I saw this film again.

An enjoyable film, quite intriguing and well acted, despite a couple of flaws.

Sliing Doors is certainly a decent and intriguing film, aided by a very good plot, about parallel stories of a woman who misses/catches her train. The script is quite touching and sometimes funny, and there is some nice music and cinematography. I was also moved by the ending, which was full of pathos and sadness. With her enchanting smile and fruity voice, Gwyneth Paltrow is very appealing as Helen. John Lynch is suitably dull, but melancholy as her cheating partner Gerry (who is constantly seen getting advice from his friend Russell), and John Hannah lights up the screen as James. I do have two problems with this movie. One is that Jeanne Tripplehorn doesn’t quite convince as Gerry’s ex-girlfriend, reduced to uttering rather predictable lines, and she is possibly underused too, again it could be to do with the structure of the story, which I found confusing when I first saw this film. The other flaw is that there is one scene that never rings true, the scene with Gerry’s confession that he still loves her, and then soon after Helen finds in the parallel story she’s pregnant. Overall, it is an enjoyable film, not the best movie ever made, but definitely worth watching. 8/10 Bethany Cox.

If I Had Just Waited

I am so enamored with this kind of film. How many people have asked the question after having an accident or chanced upon something, “If I had only left a minute later, none of this would have happened.” Now we get into the who time continuum thing and parallel universes. I know this isn’t a science fiction film, although a Twilight Zone episode may have fun with this plot. When we are dealing with the characters colliding through the fourth dimension, a whole different set of circumstances are put in motion. The reason we can never travel back in time (while forward is possible) is that time would then become mutable and what we are may no longer be and then we wouldn’t travel back in time. Two roads diverge in a woods paraphrasing Robert Frost, but what if we could take each of those roads and see what happens. This movie is quite magical and does the best it can to get Gwyneth Paltrow through her parallel universes and see the things that one would see. I think the problem is that unless we get into quantum physics, it’s hard for the average person to really reconcile these sorts of events. I thought the acting was very good and believe things as they unfurled. I would recommend this film if you like to think about the possibilities it envisions. Try it on yourself sometime and extrapolate your own existence from some fork in the road and imagine what may have been.