Rating: PG13
Genre:
Comedy Drama
Release Date: 12/01/1998
SubTitles: Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD5.1/DDS
Run Time: 99 Minutes
Flags: Questionable for Children, Adult Language, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: Paramount
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, All Movie Guide
;)
