British actor peter howitt wrote and directed this british romantic comedy drama with a road not taken premise recalling the 1921 play if by lord dunsany 1878 1957 frank.
Sliding doors movie gerry.
Sliding doors the film that resulted from howitt s near death experience that was released 20 years ago this week begins by introducing us to helen gwyneth paltrow a public relations executive.
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.
When helen claims to be over her boyfriend gerry whom she recently dumped after she came home early from work and caught him cheating helen s best friend anna calls her out for lying noting that helen is still counting the days since the breakup and is still reading gerry s horoscope in the hopes that it will say that something terrible will happen to him.
In the other she misses it because she s delayed and the doors slide shut in her face.
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.
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.
When helen gets home she sees her boyfriend gerry john lynch in bed with his ex girlfriend lydia jeanne tripplehorn and helen quickly ends her relationship with gerry and forms a new loving one with james.
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.
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.
Frustrated she decides to take the underground back home to visit her live in boyfriend named gerry john lynch a struggling author.
In one scenario she catches the train.
Helen has a number of conflicts with gerry then discovers she s pregnant with his baby but delays telling him.
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.
However a little girl stands in her way and she just misses the train as the sliding doors close.
Lydia even interacts with helen on several occasions.
