Trivia for
Sliding Doors (1998) More at IMDbPro »

• Although the film is set in London, trailers and ads for it included one shot showing a Los Angeles Blue Line train, which looks nothing like the London Underground trains.
  
  
• When James and Helen first meet on the tube, James talks about The Beatles. A little later in the film, as Helen and Anna get into the taxi they instruct the driver to take them to 9 Menlove Ave, which was the childhood home of The Beatles's John Lennon in Liverpool.
  
  
• Rowers from London Rowing club, Cygnet, were chosen to be John Hannah's crew mates in the film. The casting director initially went to Imperial College, but when it was noted that they were "all over two meters with flat stomachs" it was decided that lesser rowers than the elite set of internationals would be cast. This is deliberate in order to make Hannah look like the tall athletic one in the boat.
  
  
• The writer/director is good friends with Brian May, of the band Queen, and gave him a copy of the finished script, asking him to write a song for the film. May penned the song "Another World", but was told a few months into production that they couldn't use it, because another record company was co-financing the production. May kept the song and it became the thematic thread for his solo album "Another World" (1998).
  
  
• The book Helen spills tea on and reads later is "To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee.
  
  
• Minnie Driver was originally offered the leading role ahead of Gwyneth Paltrow
  
  
• When Sydney Pollack called from Hollywood to offer financing, director Peter Howitt was on a drinking spree in a London pub, and had to be sobered up before he could speak to Pollack.
  
  

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