Sliding Doors (1998)

A beautiful young English woman learns that she has been fired from her PR job. On the way home, the doors of a tube car close on her, opening the "what if" floodgates. She begins to live out two lives: if she had made the train, and if she hadn't. An intriguing concept about fate and how simple moments have the ability to change our lives.

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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 ...
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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.
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Helen, een pr-verantwoordelijke in Londen, wordt onverwacht ontslagen, ziet de deuren van de metro net voor haar neus dichtzoemen. We zien wat er gebeurt nu ze de metro heeft gemist en haar vriendje Gerry alle tijd van de wereld heeft om de sporen van zijn ontrouw uit te wissen. Maar ook wat er gebeurt als ze de metro wel had gehaald en bij thuiskomst Gerry aantreft in de armen van zijn ex-vriendinnetje Lydia, waarop Helen zich stevig gaat bezatten en kennis maakt met de innemende Schot James.

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