Sliding Doors Movie Gerry

Sliding doors is a 1998 romantic comedy drama film written and directed by peter howitt and starring gwyneth paltrow and john hannah while also featuring john lynch jeanne tripplehorn and virginia mckenna.

Sliding doors movie gerry.

She confronts them walks out goes to a bar and runs into james john hannah. Sliding doors nice concept shaky execution that about sums up the mixed blessings of british actor peter howitt s intelligent but forgivably flawed debut as a writer director. Gerry s pal russell spouts some exposition to which gerry repeatedly replies i know. This film provides examples of.

James recognizes her because earlier he chatted her up on the train. In one reality helen catches the tube train meets james and arrives home to find her loathsome lothario lover gerry cheating on her with his ex girlfriend lydia. Blonde helen and brunette helen. The timeline where helen.

All this fornicating and suspense about who is cheating on whom tends to make sliding doors more of a fantastic soap opera than the richer and more complex life study to which it aspires. This was before she became an object of scorn and outright hatred for many people a stance which tells more about their pettiness than anything about the actress. Coming home early after being fired helen s gwyneth paltrow bad day continues when she finds her boyfriend gerry john lynch in bed with lydia jeanne tripplehorn. Lydia s establishing character moment is full of this.

It s got more emotional depth than most frothy romantic comedies and its central idea the parallel tracking of two possible destinies for a young london professional. Furthermore helen s reaction to the cheating james and gerry makes this almost a feminist anti male men are pigs movie. Two timelines one where helen got to the tube and one where she didn t. In the other reality helen misses the tube train gets mugged goes to hospital and eventually arrives home to find gerry alone in the shower.

When helen gets home she sees her boyfriend gerry john lynch in bed with his ex girlfriend lydia jeanne tripplehorn and helen quickly ends her relationship with gerry and forms a new loving one with james.