I remember enjoying this bizarre plot when I first saw the movie, but even then I found a main issue that seems even more glaring after all these years.
Paltrow is Helen, a great looking girl with a job in PR who gets fired and must rearrange her life. Helen lives with Gerry, a charisma-free slob who's allegedly writing a novel, while "shagging" an American ex-lover behind Helen's back.
On her way home Helen contemporaneously misses and catches the underground, therefore following two separate paths: in the first she gets home late, doesn't discover Gerry cheating, works two jobs in catering and is more or less miserable until she discovers she's pregnant.
In the second, she finds Gerry cheating, moves in with a girlfriend, dates James, gets one of the most awful haircuts ever, opens her PR firm and discovers she's pregnant.
The two paths merge again at the hospital, where only one Helen gets a chance to go on with her life.
The main issue is that both Gerry and James are not attractive and Helen is way out of their league. It's impossible to understand why Helen is keeping Gerry as a live-in, do-nothing, unreliable lover and even more impossible to figure out why another woman is chasing after him.
James is an insecure chatterbox, the type who needs to make a joke out of every sentence. His continuous blabbering is annoying and not very endearing.
Still an enjoyable little movie with a clever open ending.
Paltrow is Helen, a great looking girl with a job in PR who gets fired and must rearrange her life. Helen lives with Gerry, a charisma-free slob who's allegedly writing a novel, while "shagging" an American ex-lover behind Helen's back.
On her way home Helen contemporaneously misses and catches the underground, therefore following two separate paths: in the first she gets home late, doesn't discover Gerry cheating, works two jobs in catering and is more or less miserable until she discovers she's pregnant.
In the second, she finds Gerry cheating, moves in with a girlfriend, dates James, gets one of the most awful haircuts ever, opens her PR firm and discovers she's pregnant.
The two paths merge again at the hospital, where only one Helen gets a chance to go on with her life.
The main issue is that both Gerry and James are not attractive and Helen is way out of their league. It's impossible to understand why Helen is keeping Gerry as a live-in, do-nothing, unreliable lover and even more impossible to figure out why another woman is chasing after him.
James is an insecure chatterbox, the type who needs to make a joke out of every sentence. His continuous blabbering is annoying and not very endearing.
Still an enjoyable little movie with a clever open ending.