Sliding Doors Movie Ending

I ll admit the alternate ending was uplifting but i have mixed melancholy feels after seeing it.

Sliding doors movie ending. 20 years after its release the gwyneth paltrow movie lives on as a piece of pop psychology. This mirrors the start of the film where james picks up helen s earring. James is leaving the hospital after visiting his mother and helen is leaving after ending her relationship with gerry. We see it both ways in parallel.

Sliding doors 1 387 imdb 6 7 1h 39min 1998 x ray pg 13 this cleverly conceived romantic comedy follows a london woman oscar winner gwyneth paltrow shakespeare in love on two hypothetical paths. Helen drops an earring in the elevator and it is picked up by james. With gwyneth paltrow john hannah john lynch jeanne tripplehorn. Is either time line interesting in itself.

I have a question about the end of sliding doors starring gwenyth paltrow. I submit that there is a simple test to determine whether this plot can work. A london woman s love life and career both hinge unknown to her on whether or not she catches a train. Writer director peter howitt explains how sliding doors the film and the phenomenon got made.

Sliding doors uses parallel time lines to explore the different paths that a woman s life might take after she does and doesn t find her lover in bed with another woman. Did she die in the path that took her with james. One where she gets home early and catches her boyfriend john lynch the secret garden in bed with another woman the other where she doesn t. Sliding doors is a rather smart and charming romantic comedy that s a lot of fun.

If not then no amount of shifting back and forth between them can help. Playing with alternate realities a woman s life takes two divergent paths when in one reality she misses the. I saw her flatline in the hospital as he was talking to her and i was crushed. Sliding doors 1998 on imdb.

Plot summary synopsis and more.