Although the term originated from the 1998 film sliding doors written and directed by peter howitt and starring gwyneth paltrow examples of sliding doors moments being used in modern vernacular vary to.
How does the movie sliding doors end.
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.
Writer director peter howitt explains how sliding doors the film and the phenomenon got made.
Blonde gwyneth loses baby and dies.
Playing with alternate realities a woman s life takes two divergent paths when in one reality she misses the.
Did she die in the path that took her with james.
Helen is stunned to see gerry and lydia drops the news of her own pregnancy to both.
Movie fades after promising start helen gwyneth paltrow gets fired from her pr job for taking home all the booze.
20 years after its release the gwyneth paltrow movie lives on as a piece of pop psychology.
In the other reality helen misses the tube train gets mugged goes to hospital and eventually arrives home to find gerry alone in the shower.
The term a sliding doors moment became a term popularised in the late 20th century meaning seemingly inconsequential moments that nonetheless alter the trajectory of future events.
In one scenario she catches the train.
I saw her flatline in the hospital as he was talking to her and i was crushed.
In both storylines helen is taken to the hospital and loses her baby.
In one reality helen catches the tube train meets james and arrives home to find her loathsome lothario lover gerry cheating on her with his ex girlfriend lydia.
While at lydia s gerry answers the doorbell and sees helen standing at the door.
In the other she misses it because she s delayed and the doors slide shut in her face.
And i fear they are not.
I have a question about the end of sliding doors starring gwenyth paltrow.
Sliding doors is a rather smart and charming romantic comedy that s a lot of fun.
I ll admit the alternate ending was uplifting but i have mixed melancholy feels after seeing it.
Distraught helen runs off and falls down lydia s staircase.
In one universe helen makes her.
Then in another storyline she catches the subway train.