Sliding Doors
Sliding Doors is a 1998 BritishAmerican romantic comedydrama film written and directed by Peter Howitt and starring Gwyneth Paltrow and John Hannah, while also featuring John Lynch, Jeanne Tripplehorn and Virginia McKenna. The film alternates between two parallel universes, based on the two paths the central characters life could take depending on whether or not she catches a train and causing different outcomes in her life.
In the timeline in which she boards the train, she sits alongside James John Hannah the man in the lift on the Underground and they strike up a conversation. She gets home in time to catch her boyfriend, Gerry John Lynch, in bed with his American exgirlfriend, Lydia Jeanne Tripplehorn she dumps him and moves in with her friend Anna Zara Turner, and changes her appearance to make a fresh start Paltrows hair style is used to differentiate both storylines for the audience. James continues to serendipitously pop into Helens life, cheering her up and encouraging her to start her own public relations firm. She and James fall in love despite Helens reservations about beginning another relationship so soon after her ugly breakup with Gerry. Eventually, Helen discovers that she is pregnant, believing it is James child, and goes to see him at his office. She is stunned to learn from James secretary that he is married. Upset, she disappears. James finds her on a bridge and explains that he was married but is now separated and planning a divorce. He and his soontobeexwife maintain the appearance of a happy marriage for the sake of his sick mother. After she and James declare their love, Helen walks out into the road and is hit by a van.In the timeline in which Helen misses the train, subsequent services are delayed she exits the station and hails a taxi. As she does so, a man tries to snatch her handbag. Helen is injured in the scuffle and goes to hospital. She arrives home after Lydia has left, oblivious to Gerrys infidelity. She takes two parttime jobs to pay the bills. Gerry continues to juggle the two women in his life Lydia even interacts with Helen on several occasions. Helen has a number of conflicts with Gerry but discovers that she is pregnant. She never manages to tell him, but does tell him she has a job interview with an international PR firm. Gerry, thinking Helen is at her interview, goes to see Lydia, also pregnant with his child, at her apartment. While at Lydi
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