Since I didn't watch this movie until now, thirteen years (has it really been thirteen years since 1998?!) after it came out, I can only assume I missed the zeitgeist boat on this one.
If you don't already know, the movie is about how different Gwyneth Paltrow's character Helen's life has the potential to be, hinging on whether or not she makes a train one day after getting fired from her job.
Thoroughly and charmingly silly in plot and acting, Sliding Doors feels highly inconsequential all the way through, even when poor Helen (SPOILER ALERT) is lying in a hospital bed dying after tragic accidents that leave her maimed in both alternate lives.
Overall it was an amusingly outdated bit of fluff. Bonus points for the friend who keeps bursting out laughing when something terrible happens to Helen's philandering lover (see the first 60 seconds of the clip). It was what I felt like doing throughout the entire thing.
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I don't know if it was just me but i was just super distracted by Gweneth Paltrow's accent in the movie. Also distracting was seeing the John Hannah doing this nice guy role after seeing him play this brutal/aggressive role of the Batiatus in Spartacus.
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Yeah, I forgot to mention that this movie was part of Paltrow's "charmingly British (but really not)" phase.
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