Hammerman Ikon

Hammerman Ikon Film Guide

Sliding Doors
1998
***½
Director: Peter Howitt
Cast: Gwyneth Paltrow, John Hannah, Jeanne Tripplehorn, John Lynch

A clever and enjoyable romantic drama with two parallel storylines with the same characters. The story aims to show that the smallest of details can change the course of one's life. However, the final deterministic scene makes the whole exercise seem futile. Jeanne Tripplehorn's cartoonish bitch seems out of place in an otherwise down-to-earth story.