Sliding Doors Summary
MPAA Rating: PG13
Director: Peter Howitt
Genres: Comedy Drama, Fantasy, Romance
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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_Capra's It's a Wonderful Life (1946), and O.Henry's short story -Roads of Destiny (1909). Howitt's storyline branches in two directions: Helen (Gwyneth_Paltrow) loses her job at a classy London PR firm, has a run-in with a purse-snatcher, and just misses catching her boyfriend Gerry (John_Lynch) in bed with his former girlfriend Lydia (Jeanne_Tripplehorn). But what if it were one of those days when everything goes right? As the sliding doors close while she stands on a subway platform in the London underground, Helen ponders the events in her alternate reality. The plot of Lord Dunsany's +If also hinges on a future determined by catching or missing a train. Sliding Doors was shown at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. Bhob Stewart, Rovi
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