Movie Sliding Doors Ending

20 years after its release the gwyneth paltrow movie lives on as a piece of pop psychology.

Movie sliding doors ending.

A london woman s love life and career both hinge unknown to her on whether or not she catches a train. In the other she misses it because she s delayed and the doors slide shut in her face. Distraught helen runs off and falls down lydia s staircase. Did she die in the path that took her with james.

In one scenario she catches the train. Helen is stunned to see gerry and lydia drops the news of her own pregnancy to both. Writer director peter howitt explains how sliding doors the film and the phenomenon got made. Helen drops an earring in the elevator and it is picked up by james.

In the final scene now taking place solely in the missed the train universe james is leaving the hospital after visiting his mother and helen is leaving after ending her relationship with gerry. With gwyneth paltrow john hannah john lynch jeanne tripplehorn. Sliding doors is a rather smart and charming romantic comedy that s a lot of fun. In both storylines helen is taken to the hospital and loses her baby.

We see it both ways in parallel. I ll admit the alternate ending was uplifting but i have mixed melancholy feels after seeing it. Playing with alternate realities a woman s life takes two divergent paths when in one reality she misses the. I have a question about the end of sliding doors starring gwenyth paltrow.

Blonde gwyneth loses baby and dies. Brunette gwyneth loses baby hooks up with blonde gwyneth s boyfriend in elevator because as the monty python boys say nobody expects the spanish inquisition mike. The movie stars gwyneth paltrow as helen a london publicity executive who is fired for no good reason and stalks out of her office in midmorning to take the underground train back home. While at lydia s gerry answers the doorbell and sees helen standing at the door.