If not then no amount of shifting back and forth between them can help.
Sliding doors moment movie.
I submit that there is a simple test to determine whether this plot can work.
We see it both ways in parallel.
Is either time line interesting in itself.
With gwyneth paltrow john hannah john lynch jeanne tripplehorn.
Sliding doors is a rather smart and charming romantic comedy that s a lot of fun.
Gottman calls it the sliding door moment.
Sliding door moments are the seemingly inconsequential everyday moments filled with the words we haphazardly throw back and forth at each other accompanied by little evanescent pains frustrations joys and laughter flying through our minds and our hearts that make or break the most important.
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.
Playing with alternate realities a woman s life takes two divergent paths when in one reality she misses the.
Directed by peter howitt.
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.
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.