Gwyneth paltrow plays london publicist helen effortlessly sliding between parallel storylines that show what happens if she does or does not catch a morning train back to her apartment.
Play constellations and movie sliding doors.
Before the doors close james tells helen to cheer up and repeats his line you know what the monty python boys say helen who in the.
Directed by peter howitt.
Movies from sliding doors to groundhog day and tv series from star trek.
With gwyneth paltrow john hannah john lynch jeanne tripplehorn.
The 1998 movie sliding doors turns on timing imagining how a woman s life would play out if she does or doesn t catch a train.
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Nick payne s play constellations which premiered in.
Sliding doors 1998 plot.
Constellations isn t the first drama to play around with the notion of narrative spinning.
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.
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Constellations nick payne s gorgeous two character drama starring a perfectly matched jake gyllenhaal and ruth wilson may be the most sophisticated date play broadway has seen as staged by.
It s basically a version of the nineties movie sliding doors but with more storylines.
Given the mode of storytelling it also lacks the kind of inevitability.
From groundhog day to sliding doors and run lola run.
We see it both ways in parallel.
Variations on a theme of variations on a theme.
The next generation to frasier have dived into multiple reality narratives.
That s the quick take on constellations a romantic two hander starring dreamy jake gyllenhaal and the radiant british thesp ruth wilson fresh off her.
She is returning home when an amazing thing happens time reverses itself for a few seconds and a second version of herself is created.
A london woman s love life and career both hinge unknown to her on whether or not she catches a train.
Short and sweet and strangely haunting.