Sliding Doors Movie Ending

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 movie ending.

James is leaving the hospital after visiting his mother and helen is leaving after ending her relationship with gerry. I submit that there is a simple test to determine whether this plot can work. Directed by peter howitt. Sliding doors is a rather smart and charming romantic comedy that s a lot of fun.

A london woman s love life and career both hinge unknown to her on whether or not she catches a train. Plot summary synopsis and more. Sliding doors 1998 on imdb. 20 years after its release the gwyneth paltrow movie lives on as a piece of pop psychology.

I ll admit the alternate ending was uplifting but i have mixed melancholy feels after seeing it. 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 have a question about the end of sliding doors starring gwenyth paltrow.

Writer director peter howitt explains how sliding doors the film and the phenomenon got made. Helen drops an earring in the elevator and it is picked up by james. 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. I saw her flatline in the hospital as he was talking to her and i was crushed.

This mirrors the start of the film where james picks up helen s earring. Did she die in the path that took her with james. Is either time line interesting in itself. We see it both ways in parallel.

With gwyneth paltrow john hannah john lynch jeanne tripplehorn.