Sliding Doors

This article is about the film. For non-vehicular sliding doors, see Sliding door. For sliding doors on vehicles, see Sliding door (car).

Sliding Doors
A vertical mirror image of a woman, above she has short blonde hair, below she has longer brown hair.
Theatrical release poster
Directed byPeter Howitt
Written byPeter Howitt
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyRemi Adefarasin
Edited byJohn Smith
Music byDavid Hirschfelder
Production
companies
Distributed by
Release dates
  • January 26, 1998 (1998-01-26) (Sundance Film Festival)
  • April 24, 1998 (1998-04-24) (United States)
  • May 1, 1998 (1998-05-01) (United Kingdom)
Running time
99 minutes
Countries
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$6 million[1]
Box office$67 million[2]

Sliding Doors is a 1998 romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Peter Howitt and starring Gwyneth Paltrow while also featuring John Hannah, John Lynch, and Jeanne Tripplehorn. The film alternates between two storylines, showing two paths the central character's life could take depending on whether she catches a train. It has drawn numerous comparisons to Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski's 1987 film Blind Chance, the outcome of which also hinges on whether the protagonist catches a train.[3][4][5]

  1. ^ "Sliding Doors (1998)". Box Office Mojo. Amazon.com. Retrieved 16 June 2010.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference gross was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ D'Angelo, Mike (6 September 2015). "It's like Sliding Doors, only political and made by the director of Three Colors". The A.V. Club.
  4. ^ Lim, Dennis (21 September 2015). "Blind Chance: The Conditional Mood". The Criterion Collection.
  5. ^ Ng, Yvonne (Fall 2005). "Fate and Choice in Kieślowski's Blind Chance". University of Waterloo. doi:10.15353/kinema.vi.1088. S2CID 203253869.