Sliding Doors Movie Gerry

I submit that there is a simple test to determine whether this plot can work.

Sliding doors movie gerry.

Sliding doors 1998 cast and crew credits including actors actresses directors writers and more. Furthermore helen s reaction to the cheating james and gerry makes this almost a feminist anti male men are pigs movie. Sliding doors nice concept shaky execution that about sums up the mixed blessings of british actor peter howitt s intelligent but forgivably flawed debut as a writer director. Gerry s pal russell spouts some exposition to which gerry repeatedly replies i know.

Http amzn to s9mrgi don t miss the hottest new trailers. Two timelines one where helen got to the tube and one where she didn t. The timeline where helen. Sliding doors 1 379 imdb 6 7 1h 39min 1998 x ray pg 13 this cleverly conceived romantic comedy follows a london woman oscar winner gwyneth paltrow shakespeare in love on two hypothetical paths.

Sliding doors uses parallel time lines to explore the different paths that a woman s life might take after she does and doesn t find her lover in bed with another woman. We see it both ways in parallel. All this fornicating and suspense about who is cheating on whom tends to make sliding doors more of a fantastic soap opera than the richer and more complex life study to which it aspires. This film provides examples of.

Sliding doors movie clips. Http j mp 1ja5wfw buy the movie. It s got more emotional depth than most frothy romantic comedies and its central idea the parallel tracking of two possible destinies for a young london professional. One where she gets home early and catches her boyfriend john lynch the secret garden in bed with another woman the other where she doesn t.

Lydia s establishing character moment is full of this. Blonde helen and brunette helen. If not then no amount of shifting back and forth between them can help. A london woman s love life and career both hinge unknown to her on whether or not she catches a train.

Directed by peter howitt.