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10/18/08
Sliding Doors (1998)
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Reviews Counted:11
Fresh:3
Rotten:8
Average Rating:5.8/10
Consensus: Despite the gimmicky feel of the split narratives, the movie is watch-able due to the winning performances by the cast.
Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: 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... [More]
Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, John Hannah, John Lynch, Jeanne Tripplehorn
Director: Peter Howitt
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Reviews for Sliding Doors
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08/28/02
Top CriticIt's not so much the tale itself as the slippery interplay between characters that makes Sliding Doors enjoyable.
06/18/02
Top CriticUltimately, Sliding Doors becomes a victim of its own cleverness, shutting down all that early promise.
04/12/02
Top CriticUnduly smug about its flashy conceit and otherwise utterly empty, the film plays like lobotomized Kieslowski, less Blind Chance than dumb luck.
01/01/00
Top CriticThe script is shrewd and inventive, combining wit, romance, and intelligent melodrama into a crowd-pleasing whole.
01/01/00
Top CriticDeft enough to keep you wondering whether it's going to end on Track A or Track B.
01/01/00
Top CriticGive the movie credit for being a different sort of romantic comedy, but still one has to regret the failure of imagination.
01/01/00
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Gwyneth Paltrow is engaging as the two Helens, and I have no complaints about her performance. Pity about the screenplay.
01/01/00
Top CriticOnce the movie throws in a jolting, late-in- the-game plot twist that could have been borrowed from City of Angels, it never regains its balance.
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