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It's not so much the tale itself as the slippery interplay between characters that makes Sliding Doors enjoyable.
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
Sliding Doors
What if one split second sent your life in two completely different directions?
1998 · 1h 39m · PG-13
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Directed by
Peter Howitt
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Sliding Doors
Overview
Helen, a London ad executive, is fired from her job and rushes out to catch a train, but, as she runs down, her life suddenly splits off. In one version she catches the train; in the second, she misses it. Her whole life changes in that one second, and the rest of the film depicts what happens in each scenario.
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Ultimately, Sliding Doors becomes a victim of its own cleverness, shutting down all that early promise.
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
Rotten
Once the movie throws in a jolting, late-in- the-game plot twist that could have been borrowed from City of Angels, it never regains its balance.
Stephen Holden, New York Times
Rotten
Gwyneth Paltrow is engaging as the two Helens, and I have no complaints about her performance. Pity about the screenplay.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten
Take a supernatural premise, sap cinematic magic of any kind and the result is Sliding Doors.
Mike Clark, USA Today
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