Sliding Door Movie Review
With gwyneth paltrow john hannah john lynch jeanne tripplehorn.
Sliding door movie review. Playing with alternate realities a woman s life takes two. 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.
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. 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. In one scenario she catches the train. 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. Parents need to know that sliding doors is a 1998 fantasy about finding love featuring two parallel stories. We see it both ways in parallel. 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.
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. Sliding doors is a cinematic study of how a single event in our lives can drastically change our future. Directed by peter howitt. 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.
Audience reviews for sliding doors feb 02 2016 sliding doors is a rather smart and charming romantic comedy that s a lot of fun. This movie is most special for the way the two storylines overlap making this a very original movie. It has it all humour anger sadness love compassion and a lot of lying. With a pleasing balance of romance comedy and drama sliding doors is an exceedingly original story that appeals to both the heart and mind.