1998 · comedy · drama · fantasy
Sliding Doors
Directed by Peter Howitt1h 39m1998
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.
Our read: Sliding Doors (1998) reads as a warm, steady, inventive comedy · drama · fantasy entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle comedy / drama, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- warm
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
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