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Summary: One of the best Romantic Films in a long time!
Review: I love this movie!Gwyneth Paltrow is so great as the cheated on girlfriend whose life takes two very different paths based upon whether or not she makes a train....John Hannah as her love interest is charming and totally endearing. The performances, writing and the originality of the film make it a standout! A must for fans of old fashioned stay in on a rainy day romance. Pull up the ottoman, get the bowl of popcorn in your lap and watch this charming story unfold. The best use of the parallel universe theory seen outside of Star Trek
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Summary: Fate has a way of finding you...
Review: I never do these, but reading some of the other reviews, I think it's apparent that many people missed the "moral of the story". I agree that it's based on "what-if" scenarios, but I think more than that, it shows that things happen for a reason, and even though you may think you're life can't get any worse, you were destined to live that life and take that path for a reason. I don't want to give away the ending, but anyone whose seen it understands what I'm saying. This movie is amazing and deeper than people give it credit for because it is a lighthearted comedy. It can make you think, and overthink every decision and step you take every day, because you just never know where you're being led... but in the end you'll end up on your destined course and if someone's meant to be in your life... it's inevitable, one way or another it will happen.
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Summary: Why GwynethPaltrow is the Kate or Audrey Hepburn of our time
Review: This movie is a gem. Gwyneth Paltrow glides through the film. She is such a pleasure to watch. The movie touches on destiny with a mixture of the Chaos Theory thrown in. Unlike many of the hyped actresses of our time Gwyneth Paltrow shows time and again in SLIDING DOORS just how multi-dimensional she can be. You fall in love with her character. Forget the much overrated Bridget Jones Diary, buy Sliding Doors. You will not regret it.
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Summary: A great movie!
Review: I have watched this one a hundred times, its a feel good movie! When we have company over I always show this DVD. Gweneth is great as always and this one is unexpectly great!
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Summary: 'Sliding Doors'
Review: What a great movie based on the entire "What If" concept.
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Summary: Oh, what a great movie.
Review: I absolutely love Gwyneth Paltrow and John Hannah in this charming romantic comedy. It's definitely offbeat, and explores the idea of paralell universes. Ever wondered what your life would be like if you made just one choice differently? Branching off from one single event (a parent pulling a little girl out of a woman's way on the subway), Helen's life is drastically changed. In one scenario, she stays with her two-timing boyfriend (who is an absolute jerk, but manages to come off as slightly charming), and in the other, she meets a new man named James (John Hannah, in my favorite male hero character ever!). The movie is funny and cute, and manages also to be terribly interesting - the viewer watches the two universes travel farther and farther apart, wondering how the director will bring the two universes back together. He successfuly does so, in a surprising and bittersweet finale that leaves the viewer uncertain whether to cry or cheer. This is one of those great, rare movies that manages to be deep as well as entertaining, and I give it my highest reccommendations. Well done!
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Summary: Surprisingly Well Done, Thoughtful, Believable,Unpredictable
Review: Sliding Doors is the 1998 Gwyneth Paltrow vehicle based on the alternate reality theme originally explored in the 1982 Polish film "Blind Chance" and 1998's Run Lola Run. After viewing some of Paltrow's lesser works I wasn't expecting much with this one, so it pretty much took me by storm. Paltrow solidifies herself here as an American honorary Brit and interestingly some not so covert swipes are taken at American culture (John Hannah's references to Seinfeld, Baywatch, David Cassidy, etc.) So Paltrow as Helen just misses the tube...and just makes it, and we see both realities play out with interspersed editing. Where she misses it we see her life seemingly sliding downhill rapidly, whereas where she makes it apparently on the upswing. She has a boyfriend in Gerry (John Lynch) who's cheating with an intentionally annoying American (yet another swipe at Americans), but catching the tube allows her to meet James (Hannah) who's Scottish humor is contagious, and find out Gerry. While missing it she has only suspicions of Gerry while she works 2 jobs to support his non-existent novel writing and snowballing of lies about his fidelity. And there is an interesting double-twist ending which I won't devulge, but suffice it to say both realities intersect in interesting ways and it's hinted at that they have some kind of pull on each other; i.e. her missing the tube one has her imagining and regretting not having a better reality (the catching the tube one). Well written and directed by actor Peter Howitt II.
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Summary: sweet film
Review: this is a sweet film about how little things can make a big difference in our lives. it's a premise everyone's probably thought of at some time or another, but this is the only film i know of that explicitly explores the implications. and it works. gp does a fine job in both roles, and the bloke who played the good guy was sweet and charming. a lot of humor, some tears. and the editing was very agile, as you would expect. worth a peek, especially if you like romantic comedies and/or gwyneth p.
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Summary: Rope to hang you...
Review: There is something interesting in this movie, I'll say that, but it's too much into Hollywood, everything is new age and hocus pocus. All a lie, and why it isn't good, as well why I never usually watch these movies anyways. The plot is in love with the cliche and the acting is really unacceptable, even Gwynth Platrow, who was good in the movies usually. Unacceptable!! She is getting married to the guy from the singer in Coldplay? She wants to be British so much, even in this movie. Nice accent. Hahaha, funny lady!
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Summary: A Film Women Will Enjoy, Especially Twins
Review: This is a chick-flick, non-sci-fi version (with modifications) of the Star Trek (Next Generation) episode where Riker got "doubled" via a cosmic shift and lived two separate lives as the same person. Girls will like Sliding Doors, but guys would be better off finding that Star Trek episode. There was also a three-part (the entire issue) "imaginary" episode in Superman Magazine in the late 1950s wherein little Kal-El's spacecraft passed through some sort of ray while he was on the way to Earth, and "doubled" the vehicle and its occupant... giving rise, ultimately, to two identical individuals named "Superman." One was raised by the Kents, and the other was raised by some crooks, and became a villain. They ending up fighting each other in the end, and the good one won. "Sliding Doors" isn't like that, exactly, in that the two different versions of Gywnneth don't keep running into each other, but that did happen with the two Rikers in Star Trek. "Sliding Doors" uses a band-aid on the forehead to allow viewers to tell the two Gwynneths apart. They used collar rank for Riker in Star Trek, and in "Superman" the evil version of Superman actually wore a little mask, like Zorro -- ha, ha, as if that would keep witnesses from identifying him!
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