Sliding Door Movie Review

Ultimately sliding doors becomes a victim of its own cleverness shutting down all that early promise.

Sliding door movie review.

Read common sense media s sliding doors review age rating and parents guide. 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. Playing with alternate realities a woman s life takes two. Sliding doors 1 387 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.

This theme is fascinating but there are many unfair reviews of this film in imdb which is one of my favorite movie. Homeward bound early helen catches the tube just getting through those sliding doors meets the charming james hannah and arrives to. Directed by peter howitt. Sliding doors and lola rennt.

A london woman s love life and career both hinge unknown to her on whether or not she catches a train. Sliding doors is a 1998 romantic comedy drama film written and directed by peter howitt and starring gwyneth paltrow and john hannah while also featuring john lynch jeanne tripplehorn and virginia mckenna the film alternates between two storylines showing two paths the central character s life could take depending on whether or not she catches a train. And i fear they are not. We see it both ways in parallel.

90s fantasy romance has mature themes lots of profanity. If not then no amount of shifting back and forth between them can help. Audience reviews for sliding doors. I submit that there is a simple test to determine whether this plot can work.

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. With gwyneth paltrow john hannah john lynch jeanne tripplehorn. Is either time line interesting in itself.