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Play constellations and movie sliding doors.
A london woman s love life and career both hinge unknown to her on whether or not she catches a train.
It s basically a version of the nineties movie sliding doors but with more storylines.
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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.
Sliding doors 1998 plot.
She is returning home when an amazing thing happens time reverses itself for a few seconds and a second version of herself is created.
Variations on a theme of variations on a theme.
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.
For originality the play struggles.
We see it both ways in parallel.
Directed by peter howitt.
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.
Short and sweet and strangely haunting.
The next generation to frasier have dived into multiple reality narratives.
Given the mode of storytelling it also lacks the kind of inevitability.
A london woman s love life and career both hinge unknown to her on whether or not she catches a train.
Constellations isn t the first drama to play around with the notion of narrative spinning.
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.
With gwyneth paltrow john hannah john lynch jeanne tripplehorn.
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.
Movies from sliding doors to groundhog day and tv series from star trek.
Nick payne s play constellations which premiered in.