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Sliding DoorsLabel: Paramount StudioDescription: PRODUCT DESCRIPTION Picture on cover is similar to picture on Amazon Instant Video Brand New Factory Sealed AMAZON Nice concept shaky execution--that about sums up the mixed blessings of British actor Peter Howitt's intelligent but forgivably flawed debut as a writer-director. It's got more emotional depth than most frothy romantic comedies and its central idea--the parallel tracking of two possible destinies for a young London professional played by Gwyneth Paltrow--is full of involving possibilities. It's essentially a what-if scenario with Helen (Paltrow) at the center of two slightly but significantly different romantic trajectories one involving her two-timing boyfriend (John Lynch) and the other with an amiable chap (John Hannah) who represents a happier outcome. That's the film's basic problem however: The two scenarios are so romantically imbalanced (one guy's a total cad the other charmingly sincere) that Helen inadvertently com