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