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As one guest notes, you saw Gwyneth Paltrow’s “Sliding Doors” (1998), it’s somewhat the same paradox.
If that sounds unbearably erudite, writer-director James Ward Byrkit offsets the headiness with drollness, such as a reference to the 1998 Gwyneth Paltrow rom-com Sliding Doors.
His characters even reference a previous film that drew on such watered-down multiverse theories, the rom com Sliding Doors.
However, there's one lone house in the neighbourhood that still has its lights on, and the friends discover that its inhabitants look strangely familiar... Writer/director James Ward Byrkit has basically taken a Twilight Zone episode and stretched it to feature length - the mind-bending plot invokes both Sliding Doors and the Schrödinger's cat paradox as the guests grapple with potential parallel realities.
At one point, when everyone’s trying to figure out what the hell is going on, Laurie brings up Sliding Doors, the Gwyneth Paltrow movie about two alternate realities that diverge based on whether the heroine boards or just misses a train.
Writer/director James Ward Byrkit, in his feature debut, achieves effective chills with only eight actors and a living room, intermixing quantum physics (shout-outs range from Schrödinger’s cat to “Sliding Doors”) with the very mundane human tendency toward bad judgment calls in a crisis.
The filmmaker has blended a “Futurama” episode with “Serendipity” (and perhaps specks of “In Time” and “Sliding Doors”) to craft that near-extinct being, the quality date movie.
…movies like Sliding Doors (1998) and Kate & Leopold (2001) ?
It’s a pretty standard comedic premise, in a similar vein to other recent spy spoofs such as Johnny English and Get Smart — the one major difference being that Cooper is actually fairly good at her new job.
That makes spy a “Johnny English” that works, a Bond movie where the empowered women have it all over the Bonds — and the Bond babes.
The laddish antics of Austin Powers, Johnny English and the original Casino Royale seem downright juvenile by comparison.
His bit parts in Four Weddings and a Funeral, Maybe Baby and Rat Race were the best parts of those movies.
He was fine in his cameo as a stuttering vicar in the 1994 film "Four Weddings and a Funeral."
Rowan Atkinson is hard to take here, maybe you know him as Mr. Bean or in “Four Weddings and a Funeral”, suffice to say there’s nothing about him that’s even remotely appealing, but what’s shocking, is the fact that John Malkovich is in here.
The film includes stellar supporting performances from Simon Callow ( A Room With a View , Shakespeare in Love , Kristin Scott Thomas ( The English Patient ) and Rowan Atkinson ( Bean , Johnny English ).
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
Directed by Daniel Scheinert
influenced by Sliding Doors (1998)
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And like the indecisive heroines of “Sliding Doors” and “Run Lola Run,” though to a vastly more insane degree, she must entertain multiple possible versions of her own story — all in a movie that plays at times like a very long, very surreal “Choose Your Own Adventure” novel from which the pages have been torn out and then glued back together at random.
There’s no doubt that the pure ambition on display is stunning, and the Daniels couldn’t have found a better cast to anchor a film that’s sometimes a sci-fi martial arts epic, sometimes a "Sliding Doors"-style drama, sometimes an over-the-top Paul Verhoeven-style satire and sometimes just a ridiculous fratty comedy.
When Pattinson appears on screen, doing an awful French accent that he may have learnt from watching John Malkovich's turn as Pascal Sauvage in Johnny English , things take a turn for the worse.
There's a little Sliding Doors in this film, although, unlike the earlier movie, The Butterfly Effect is not a romantic comedy, nor does it show us the parallel evolution of different universes.
Okay, from It's a Wonderful Life to Sliding Doors, movies have engaged in this hypothetical game before.
AntiTrust works because of a combination of strong acting, a smart script written by Howard Franklin (writer of Someone to Watch Over Me and The Name of the Rose ), and deft directing by Peter Howitt ( Sliding Doors ).
Peter Howitt directs from a screenplay by Howard Franklin (The Name of the Rose).
The recent James Bond film “Skyfall” was visually spectacular and dramatically effective (as that formula goes), but its depiction of the Internet was standard-issue paranoia, thematically indistinguishable from that found in the circa-2000 wave of silly hacker movies like “Swordfish,” “Antitrust” and “Enemy of the State”: It’s a magical device or plot shortcut, used by bad guys to penetrate the free world’s intelligence agencies and blow stuff up.
Tim’s own regrets about his life make the character a sort of Sliding Doors dark mirror image of Jay…
As a result, I?m placing it among my quantum genre film favorites -- along with The Fountain , Mulholland Drive and Sliding Doors .
The basic plot cleverly reworks familiar material from a variety of tried and tested sources: the most obvious is Groundhog Day , but there's also Rashomon and Sliding Doors , films concerned with people consciously or unconsciously given the opportunity to observe, learn from and reshape the past.
Split screens are used to show multiple social media streams in tandem, and often to dizzying, “Sliding Doors”-like effect.
It’s literally a Sliding Doors style scenario, where in order to reaffirm exactly how important boomer culture is, (and boomers) they create an entire movie premised on what would happen if boomers… had never existed.
Through a series of cheerful, implausible near-misses, an obnoxious cameo by Eugene Levy, and starry-eyed banter with quirky best friends (Jeremy Piven, the funniest sidekick in Hollywood, and Molly Shannon), director Peter Chelsom tears a page out of countryman Peter Howitt's Sliding Doors playbook in presenting a romantic fable that is far more interested in chemistry than narrative.
But there are some decent examples out there - Johnny English is a goofy spy spoof also made in the UK but for greatness, you'll struggle to beat the inspired Airplane!
(In this respect, some viewers will recognize it as kin to the early Gwyneth Paltrow fantasy Sliding Doors.)
Also in his search party are the beautiful but clumsy Egyptologist Evelyn Carnarvon (Rachel Weisz) and her playboy brother, Jonathan (John Hannah, from "Sliding Doors").
Following a prologue in 1290 B.C. Egypt that shows Imhotep (Arnold Vosloo) being cursed and buried alive, The Mummy takes us to Cairo in 1923, where British librarian Evelyn Carnarvon (Rachel Weisz, far less wooden here than in Swept from the Sea) and her brother, Jonathan (John Hannah, from Sliding Doors), are joining American adventurer Rick O'Connell (Brendan Fraser) on a trip to the lost city of Hamunaptra, where they hope to discover a tomb full of treasure.
Paltrow is rapidly becoming one of my favorite young actors, with her combination of strength and vulnerability, and the John Cusack-esque Hannah is every bit as winsome here -- albeit in a totally different way -- as he is in The Mummy (in which he plays the twit brother).
In this universe, she meets a charming man on the subway, James Hammerton (played by John Hannah of "The Mummy").
There's also her klutzy sidekick brother Jonathan, played by John Hannah (he co-starred in "Sliding Doors" with Gwyneth Paltrow).
John Hannah (Sliding Doors, Four Weddings and a Funeral)…