Sliding Doors . Tucson Weekly . 05-11-98

Sliding Doors

DIRECTED BY: Peter Howitt

REVIEWED: 05-11-98

Suppose that at a crucial moment, your life branched in two directions: In one, you become Gwyneth Paltrow with a bad haircut, and have to support your cheating, lay-about husband by working two jobs in the food service industry. In another, you become Paltrow with a great haircut, and fall in love with that cute guy who played "Matthew" in Four Weddings and a Funeral. Now imagine that every line of dialogue you and everyone else utters sounds exactly like the way people really talk, which is to say largely without wit or charm. Now imagine that for 99 minutes an audience must watch this incessantly talky scenario. Wouldn't you at least do a nude scene to keep things interesting? Sadly, in spite of the fact that there are technically two Paltrows in this film, and therefore four Paltrow nipples, none ever appears, as though the film were shot in some nipple-free alternate universe. An eerie, disturbing experience, to say the least.

--James DiGiovanna

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