Sliding Doors is a 1998 film written and directed by former actor Peter Howitt. It starred Gwyneth Paltrow and John Hannah, and featured John Lynch, Jeanne Tripplehorn and Virginia McKenna. The original music score was composed by David Hirschfelder. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (407x625, 62 KB)Sliding Doors film poster File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Peter Howitt (born May 5, 1957 in Manchester) is an English actor and film director. ... Sydney Pollack (born July 1, 1934 in Lafayette, Indiana) is an American actor, producer, and director. ... Gwyneth Kate Paltrow (born September 27, 1972[1]) is an Academy Award-winning American actress and singer. ... John David Hannah (born April 23, 1962) is a Scottish film and television actor. ... David Hirschfelder is an Australian composer and performer. ... Remi Adefarasin (born, London) is a noted British cinematographer. ... Miramax Films is a film production and distribution brand that was a Big Ten film motion picture distribution and production company headquartered in New York City before being bought out by The Walt Disney Company. ... Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and distribution company, based in Hollywood, California. ... is the 114th day of the year (115th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... The year 1998 in film involved some significant events. ... This article is about motion pictures. ... Peter Howitt (born May 5, 1957 in Manchester) is an English actor and film director. ... Gwyneth Kate Paltrow (born September 27, 1972[1]) is an Academy Award-winning American actress and singer. ... John David Hannah (born April 23, 1962) is a Scottish film and television actor. ... John Lynch (born December 26, 1961, in Corrinshego, near Newry, County Armagh in Northern Ireland) is an Irish actor. ... Tripplehorn 1990s Jeanne Tripplehorn (born June 10, 1963) is an American film actress. ... Virginia McKenna & Elsa (stand-in) Virginia McKenna O.B.E. (born June 7, 1931 in London, UK) is a British stage and screen actress. ... David Hirschfelder is an Australian composer and performer. ...

• Tagline: There are two sides to every story. Helen is about to live both of them... at the same time. Romance was never this much fun.

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Plot

The film follows the life of Helen Quilley (Paltrow), who is fired from her public relations job. The film's plot splits into two parallel universes which run in tandem. In one universe, Helen manages to catch a London Underground train home on time, and in the other she misses it. In the first, she gets home in time to catch her boyfriend (Lynch) caught red-handed with his ex-girlfriend (Tripplehorn); she promptly dumps him, and meets (and falls in love with) a new man (Hannah). In the second, she carries on oblivious in a miserable relationship after arriving home after her boyfriend's lover has left. // Publicity according to etymonline. ... Parallel universe or alternate reality in science fiction and fantasy is a self-contained separate reality coexisting with our own. ... The London Underground is an underground railway system - also known as a rapid transit system - that serves a large part of Greater London, United Kingdom and some neighbouring areas. ...

Toward the end of both scenarios, she discovers she is pregnant with her respective partner's baby. In both timelines, she ends up in near-fatal accidents, gets taken to the hospital and loses her baby. In the first scenario (in which she catches the train), she dies in the arms of her newfound love. In the second scenario, Helen (knowing that her boyfriend has gotten his lover pregnant) tells him to leave her alone for good. Then, while leaving the hospital, she runs into her love interest from the first scenario, leaving the audience to speculate about the outcome of their meeting.

Selected cast

• Gwyneth Paltrow as Helen Quilley
• John Hannah as James Hamilton
• John Lynch as Gerry
• Jeanne Tripplehorn as Lydia
• Zara Turner as Anna
• Douglas McFerran as Russell
• Paul Brightwell as Clive
• Nina Young as Claudia
• Virginia McKenna as James's Mother
• Kevin McNally as Paul

Gwyneth Kate Paltrow (born September 27, 1972[1]) is an Academy Award-winning American actress and singer. ... John David Hannah (born April 23, 1962) is a Scottish film and television actor. ... John Lynch (born December 26, 1961, in Corrinshego, near Newry, County Armagh in Northern Ireland) is an Irish actor. ... Tripplehorn 1990s Jeanne Tripplehorn (born June 10, 1963) is an American film actress. ... Zara Turner (born ca. ... Nina Young as The Grey Lady Nina Young is a British actress born in 1966. ... Virginia McKenna & Elsa (stand-in) Virginia McKenna O.B.E. (born June 7, 1931 in London, UK) is a British stage and screen actress. ... Kevin McNally (born 27 April 1956 in Bristol) is an English actor who has worked extensively in both film and television. ...

Soundtrack

1. Aimee Mann - Amateur
2. Elton John - Honky Cat
3. Dido - Thank You
4. Aqua - Turn Back Time
5. Jamiroquai - Use the Force
6. Abra Moore - Don't Feel Like Cryin'
7. Peach Union - On My Own
8. Olive - Miracle
9. Dodgy - Good Enough
10. Blair - Have Fun Go Mad
11. Andre Barreau - Got A Thing About You
12. Andre Barreau - Call Me A Fool

Aimee Mann (born September 8, 1960) is an American rock guitarist, bassist, singer, and noted songwriter. ... Sir Elton Hercules[1] John CBE[2] (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March 1947) is a five-time Grammy and one-time Academy Award-winning English pop/rock singer, composer and pianist. ... Honky Cat was a song from the 1972 Elton John album Honky Chateau. ... Dido (born Florian Cloud de Bounevialle Armstrong,[1] December 25, 1971) is a British BRIT Award-winning and Grammy Award-nominated singer and songwriter who performs under a nickname her mother gave her in childhood. ... Thank You is a single by Dido released in 2001. ... Aqua is a Danish dance-pop group, perhaps best known for their 1997 breakthrough single Barbie Girl. The group formed in 1989, and achieved huge success across the globe in the late 1990s and early 2000s. ... Turn Back Time is the seventh single release by the Scandinavian dance-pop group Aqua, and the third UK release. ... Jamiroquai (A portmanteau of Jam and iroquai, loosely based on the native American Indian tribe the Iroquois) is a Grammy Award-winning English funk / soul / disco band. ... Abra Moore (born June 8, 1969 in San Diego, California) is a folk-styled alternative rock singer-songwriter. ... Peach Union was a pop/dance/electronic trio who formed in London, England and had several UK and US pop and dance chart hits in the late 1990s. ... Ruth-Ann Boyle Vocalist of Olive Olive were a trip hop group from the United Kingdom. ... Dodgy were an English pop trio, originally composed of Birminghams Nigel Clark (vocals and bass) and Mathew Priest (drums), along with Londoner Andy Miller (guitar). ... Andre Barreau is a member of the world acclaimed tribute band The Bootleg Beatles in which he plays George Harrison. ... Andre Barreau is a member of the world acclaimed tribute band The Bootleg Beatles in which he plays George Harrison. ...

Trivia

• The film draws strongly from ideas in Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski's film Blind Chance, in which the fate of a character also depends on him catching or missing a train, and in which the (three) alternative lives are shown. Another 1998 film, Run Lola Run, also draws on Blind Chance in its portrayal of three possible scenarios, driven by chance.
• The theme of alternative lives resulting from a chance event is reminiscent of J. B. Priestley's plays in the 1930's, particularly Dangerous Corner.
• The scenes on the London Underground were filmed at Waterloo station on the Waterloo & City Line and at Fulham Broadway tube station on the District Line.
• The scenes by the river were filmed next to Hammersmith Bridge and in the Blue Anchor pub in Hammersmith.
• British singer Dido's song "Thank You" made its first appearance on the Sliding Doors soundtrack, although it only became a hit three years later; it was a commercial for this movie featuring "Thank You" as background music that inspired rapper Eminem to use Dido's voice for his song, "Stan".
• An episode of Frasier was based on the premise for this movie, entitled "Sliding Frasiers" (Season 8).
• The Tamil movie 12B is based heavily on this movie.

Krzysztof KieÅ›lowski   (June 27, 1941 Warsaw, Poland – March 13, 1996 Warsaw, Poland) was an influential Oscar-nominated Polish film director and screenwriter, known internationally for his film cycles Three Colors and The Decalogue. ... Blind Chance (Polish: Przypadek) is 1981 film directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski. ... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... Run Lola Run (original German title Lola rennt, which translates to Lola Runs) is a 1998 film by German screenwriter and director Tom Tykwer, starring Franka Potente as Lola. ... John Boynton Priestley, OM (born 13 September 1894, Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, died 14 August 1984, Warwickshire) was an English writer and broadcaster . ... The London Underground is an underground railway system - also known as a rapid transit system - that serves a large part of Greater London, United Kingdom and some neighbouring areas. ... It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles. ... The Waterloo & City Line is a short underground metro line in London, formally opened on 11 July 1898. ... Fulham Broadway is a station on the Wimbledon branch of the District Line, in Travelcard Zone 3. ... The District Line is a line of the London Underground, coloured green on the Tube map. ... Hammersmith Bridge, seen from the Westminster to Kew tourist boat Rowing crews racing under Hammersmith Bridge Hammersmith Bridge is a crossing of the River Thames in west London, just south of the Hammersmith town centre area of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham on the north side of the... Dido (born Florian Cloud de Bounevialle Armstrong,[1] December 25, 1971) is a British BRIT Award-winning and Grammy Award-nominated singer and songwriter who performs under a nickname her mother gave her in childhood. ... Thank You is a single by Dido released in 2001. ... Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), better known as Eminem or Slim Shady, is a Grammy and Academy Award-winning American rapper, record producer and actor from the Detroit, Michigan area. ... Dido singles chronology Stan was the third single (after The Real Slim Shady and The Way I Am) released from The Marshall Mathers LP, the second LP from rapper Eminem. ... Frasier is an American sitcom starring Kelsey Grammer as psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane. ... sivaji ganesan from the film veerapaandiya kattabomman. ... 12B is a 2001 Tamil movie starring Shaam, Simran, Jyothika, Sunil Shetty, Moon Moon Sen and Vivek and music composed by Harris Jeyaraj. ...

See also

• Time loop
• Groundhog Day
• Run Lola Run
• Chaos theory
• Probability
• Monty Python

A time loop is a common plot device in science fiction (especially in universes where time travel is commonplace) in which time runs normally for a set period (usually a day or a few hours) but then skips back like a broken record. ... Groundhog Day is a 1993 comedy film directed by Harold Ramis, starring Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell. ... Run Lola Run (original German title Lola rennt, which translates to Lola Runs) is a 1998 film by German screenwriter and director Tom Tykwer, starring Franka Potente as Lola. ... For other uses, see Chaos Theory (disambiguation). ... Probability is the likelihood that something is the case or will happen. ... Monty Python, or The Pythons, is the collective name of the creators of Monty Pythons Flying Circus, a British television comedy sketch show that first aired on the BBC on 5 October 1969. ...

External links

• Sliding Doors at the Internet Movie Database
• Sliding Doors at All Movie Guide
• Sliding doors all around us

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