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ingredients : london gal , fate , true love , running joke about monty python 's spanish inquisition synopsis : american actress gwyneth paltrow with dark hair , playing a londoner ? believe it .
sliding doors is a love ' what if ' story .
the gimmick is that it 's really two stories : the film follows the life of helen ( gwyneth paltrow ) down two directions .
in the beginning , likeable gal ' helen ' ( gwyneth paltrow ) gets unexpectedly fired from her advertising job .
so she goes into the subway train station meaning to return home early to her apartment and
her sleeping live - in lover gerry ( john lynch )
.
helen does n't know it , but she is at a fateful junction in life :
1 ) if she enters through the sliding door of a london subway train her life takes one path with one future 2 ) if she stays on the platform her life takes another path with a different future .
the film shows what happens in both paths , switching back and forth between intertwined , parallel stories .
in story one , helen meets a charming and talkative monty python fan named james ( john hannah ) on the train .
arriving home early , she discovers that her live - in , gerry ( john lynch ) , is having sex with his former lover lydia ( jeanne tripplehorn ) .
this leads to a life where helen moves out .
helen 's winsome new friend james helps her recover from a broken heart , and encourages her to start her own business .
in story two , helen experiences a different fate .
she misses the train , never meets james , and does n't get home early enough to discover gerry 's infidelity .
in this new life , helen takes up odd menial jobs , and faces the constant sneaking suspicion that all is not right with her relationship with gerry .
will the truth of the heart finally work its way through a number of problems and setbacks in both scenarios ?
opinion : rejoice all ye monty python fans , gwyneth paltrow fans , and watchers of quirky romance flicks .
at last here 's proof that there 's still creativity in 1990s filmmaking .
sliding doors is refreshingly different from anything this year .
not only is it a well - acted , heartwarming film , but it 's also easily gwyneth paltrow 's best recent performance .
when helen ( paltrow ) screams that her unfaithful boyfriend is a ' shagging wanker , ' ( a british phrase better left untranslated ) she sounds like she knows what she 's talking about ! nor does sliding doors go overboard with formulaic true love or other stereotypes .
nobody scrambles around in danger , screaming , " i will find you no matter what , my darling ! " when helen finds herself on a boat in the starlight with james , she does n't take the easy way out and leap into his arms , since she 's supposed to be recovering from heartache . and handsome live - in boyfriend gerry is n't the stereotypical screen hunk ( either a stud or a snob ) .
instead he 's a nervous and indecisive , almost helpless hunk .
another example : when one of the protagonists lies wounded in a hospital , sliding doors gives us neither the ' hospital miracle ' nor a maudlin tragedy but surprises us with a third variation .
in other words , all of the characters seem non - stereotyped , human , and local .
there are minor inconveniences .
since sliding doors switches back and forth between two possible fates , it 's occasionally difficult to distinguish between the two .
distinguishing between the two stories is n't a problem in the scenes containing paltrow , who sports two different hairstyles .
but in scenes containing only lydia and gerry , who look the same in both stories , it 's slightly confusing .
also , quite a few snappy comebacks referring to american pop culture ( seinfeld , woody allen , etc . ) are spoken by the british characters .
but these seem slightly forced , given that the remaining dialogue is predominantly british slang .
possibly an attempt by the screenwriter to balance the british so that american audiences can feel more comfortable ?
sliding doors is a charming , quirky , original , happy romance with a little ' philosophy of fate ' thrown in .
monty python and the meaning of fate , anybody ?
P

the only two really good things that i can say about tarzan and the lost city are as follows : jane march was very cute as jane , and the movie was thankfully under 90 minutes in length .
if you have n't already figured it out , i did n't like this movie very much .
the plot was boring and contrived to the extreme .
tarzan ( casper van dien ) has now left the jungle and living in civilized society .
he is just days away from his impending marriage to jane , played by the aptly named jane march .
back in his former home of africa , a group of looters has found the key to locating a lost city .
( mind you
i never really figured out why they actually wanted to find this city . )
anyway , tarzan 's old jungle friend appears to him in a vision .
tarzan realizes that he must return to africa to help stop the bad guys from finding the lost city .
he leaves jane ( his first mistake , in my opinion ) and travels to africa .
of course , jane is hot on her ape man 's heals .
the two of them are reunited in africa where they do battle with the bad guys .
sound like a dumb explanation of the plot ?
it 's actually an improvement over the real thing .
the acting is just plain awful .
i 'm not quite sure what casper van dien was doing in this film , but it was n't acting .
jane march was n't a heck of a lot better , but at least she is easy on the eyes .
compounding the bad acting was the fact that in many places the dialogue had obviously been re - recorded , and i 've seen better dubbing in some old bruce lee movies . added to the sound problems was the cinematography .
this film was filled with beautiful african scenery .
but the panoramic scenery shots looked overexposed to me .
quite frankly , i think you could probably do a better job capturing the beauty of africa with a camcorder than this bunch did with professional film equipment .
then we have the special effects .
" special effects in a tarzan movie ?
"
you are no doubt asking yourself ?
yes friends , the writers injected some very out of place supernatural elements into the story .
probably for the sake of using cgi , since it did nothing but hurt the story .
in most parts , they were n't bad , just nothing special .
but , they were more than a little on the hokey side .
except of course , when we got to the ridiculous climax of this movie .
the grand finale 's special effects went right into the toilet at that point .
it almost looked like they had run out of money .
these effects were of noticeably lower quality than those in the rest of the film and looked like something in an amateur video production .
i took one lesson away from watching tarzan and the lost city -- ape men and bones that morph into skeletal warriors do n't mix . stay far away from this version of tarzan .
N

in these days of overlong movies ( meet joe black , the thin red line , the mask of zorro ) it is a shame that films like waking ned devine ca n't be longer than a paltry 90 minutes .
this is just a cute movie , even through its mildly risque subject matter .
old friends jackie ( bannen ) and michael ( kelley ) try to find the lottery winner ( they deduce must live in their dinky town of about 60 ) so that they might kiss up to him and share the winnings .
through process of elimination , they find that it must be lovable old ned devine , who they find sitting in front of his tv , clutching the winning lottery ticket in his cold dead hand .
what results is thuroughly amusing , as jackie tries to convince his wife that not claiming it would be wrong , and that they could really benefit .
after all , old ned wo n't miss it . rather than divulge the later twists and turns , i 'll stop here merely pointing out that jackie and michael get into all sorts of trouble in their little sleepy irish villiage .
bannen and kelly are a perfect pair .
one slightly stout , the other as thin as a rail .
both getting on in years , they make such a cute pair of old codgers .
waking ned devine may even be seen as a " full monty " for the geriatric set , especially since kelly gets buff - o for one amusing scene .
waking ned devine is by no means perfect , but it is so sincere and touching that it looks so much better than most films .
the performances by everyone in the town are great , particularly the two leads .
there is one twist at the end which i find unnecessary , but it hardly ruins the picture .
writer / director kirk jones should be held up as an example to all those hollywood screenwriters .
scripts as creative and endearing
as this should be the norm , not the exception .
perhaps it makes us appreciate this wonderful film even more .
had i held off on my year 's best / worst list for another day , waking ned devine ( officially released in late november of 98 )
surely would have graced the short group of the year 's finest films .
it is light , but thought provoking and sweet .
i ca n't think of anyone who should n't see ( or would n't enjoy ) this film .
P