The theme of the movie is one that we all ponder upon. What if we had done this that done way and done that this way, where would we be, what would we be?
This Anglo-American film looks at this topic light-heartedly in a typically British fashion, with Gwyneth Paltrow as the main character.
Helen (Paltrow) is fired from her PR job. As she returns home, we are shown two alternatives of how her life would be. In the first one, she misses the train and in the second one where she gets on the train.
In the timeline that she misses the train, Helen gets mugged, gets hurt and goes home. She listens to all the crap that her two-timing boyfriend author, Gerry, hurls at her. She slogs as a waitress while her boyfriend cheats on her. She discovers that she is pregnant but cannot tell him as he is too busy trying to cover his tracks. In an interview at Gerry's girlfriend apartment, she is told that the girlfriend is also pregnant. Helen has a fall and is admitted for a miscarriage.
Helen sees Gerry in bed with his other beau in the alternative lifeline where she catches the train. She leaves him, stays with her best friend and fancies a particular bloke James whom she bumped in her previous office elevator. Helen starts her own PR company and finds herself pregnant with Gerry's baby. She also discovers that James is married with a wife. She decides to end the relationship but relents when James clarifies that he is in the process of a divorce. Just as everything seems okay, she is hit by a speeding van and is fatally wounded.
In the final scene, Helen leaves the hospital and leaves Gerry. She drops her earring in an elevator and is picked up by James, who happened to be visiting his mother.
For a short while at the beginning of the film, it is confusing to see the two characters until one puts a plaster on her forehead and later has a haircut.
Too popcorn-like, lovey-dovey for my liking! It did not leave a permanent imprint on the cerebral cortex. It is actually a plagiarised version of a Polish movie 'Blind Chance'; you must look for that one. Just for trivia, Paltrow's first born child is named Apple. NO! Her second child is not Ball but Moses!
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