A beautiful young English woman learns that she has been fired from her PR job. On the way home, the doors of a tube car close on her, opening the "what if" floodgates. She begins to live out two lives: if she had made the train, and if she hadn't. An intriguing concept about fate and how simple moments have the ability to change our lives.

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Dolby Digital 5.0

Distributor Notes: British actor Peter Howitt wrote and directed this British romantic comedy-drama with a "road not taken" premise recalling the 1921 play If by Lord Dunsany (1878-1957), Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life (1946), and O.Henry's short story Roads of Destiny (1909). Howitt's storyline branches in two directions: Helen (Gwyneth Paltrow) loses her job at a classy London PR firm, has a run-in with a purse-snatcher, and finds her boyfriend Gerry (John Lynch) in bed with his former girlfriend Lydia (Jeanne Tripplehorn). But what if it were one of those days when everything goes right? As the sliding doors close while she stands on a subway platform in the London underground, Helen ponders the events in her alternate reality. The plot of Lord Dunsany's If also hinges on a future determined by catching or missing a train. Sliding Doors was shown at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival.

Gwyneth Paltrow: Oscar Winning Actress, SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE
John Hannah: Australian Actor
John Lynch: Actor/"Monkey Boy"
Jeanne Tripplehorn: American Actress

Peter Howitt: Writer/Director/Actor in SLIDING DOORS

Sydney Pollack: American Director, producer, actor
William Horberg: Producer
Philippa Braithwaite: Producer

Peter Howitt: Writer/Director/Actor in SLIDING DOORS

David Hirschfelder: Music Director

John Smith: Editor, SLIDING DOORS (1998)

"...The movie makes for demanding, cerebral viewing..."
"...Both storylines are compelling and engaging....With a pleasing balance of comedy and drama, SLIDING DOORS is an exceedingly original comedy-drama that appeals to both the romantic heart and the philosophical mind..."
"...The date-night movie of choice for incurable romantics.....Funny and touching..."
"...A lovely feeling for the power of chance..." -- Rating: B
"...[A] delightful romance with a twist..."
"...Cleverly conceived and superbly executed....Paltrow is amiably convincing in her dual roles..."
"[A] high-wire act on parallel wires that follows its heroine, Helen along two different life paths....The film is too shrewd to make an open-and-shut case..."