Sliding Door Movie Review

Playing with alternate realities a woman s life takes two.

Sliding door movie review.

This was before she became an object of scorn and outright hatred for many people a stance which tells more about their pettiness than anything about the actress. Directed by peter howitt. By chance a woman discovers her boyfriend is having an affair at the same time she meets a much nicer guy who s getting divorced. Containing fantasy elements reminiscent of groundhog day and it s a wonderful life this movie explores what would happen if a young british woman named helen gwyneth paltrow just barely caught the subway train traveling home after a difficult day and what would happen if she just missed the train.

In the other she misses it because she s delayed and the doors slide shut in her face. Metacritic gives the film a score of 59 out of 100 based on 23 reviews indicating the reaction as mixed or average. Characters drink alcohol to excess and smoke cigarettes. The movie stars gwyneth paltrow as helen a london publicity executive who is fired for no good reason and stalks out of her office in midmorning to take the underground train back home.

Rotten tomatoes gives the film a score of 64 based on 53 reviews with the consensus reading despite the gimmicky feel of the split narratives the movie is watchable due to the winning performances by the cast. We see it both ways in parallel. Sliding doors is one of gwyneth paltrow s best films made when she was in several films a year just between emma and great expectations. It has it all humour anger sadness love compassion and a lot of lying.

A london woman s love life and career both hinge unknown to her on whether or not she catches a train. Pregnancy and losing a baby are plot points. With gwyneth paltrow john hannah john lynch jeanne tripplehorn. Parents need to know that sliding doors is a 1998 fantasy about finding love featuring two parallel stories.

Critic reviews 90 dallas observer jean oppenheimer so inventive confident and accomplished is the production that it s a shock to learn sliding doors is the work of a first time director screenwriter. Sliding doors is one of the best films that gwyneth paltrow has done. Audience reviews for sliding doors feb 02 2016 sliding doors is a rather smart and charming romantic comedy that s a lot of fun. Sliding doors is a cinematic study of how a single event in our lives can drastically change our future.