The document summarizes two romantic comedy films from the late 1990s and 2000s. Sliding Doors is a 1998 film directed by Peter Howitt about a woman named Helen Quilley who misses her train home, splitting her life into parallel universes of what happens if she catches it or misses it. The Proposal is a 2009 film directed by Anne Fletcher about a publishing executive named Margaret Tate who forces her assistant Andrew to marry her to avoid being deported, with Andrew agreeing conditionally. Both films deal with the concept of parallel lives and romantic relationships.

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Sliding Doors is a 1998
film written and directed
by Peter Howitt. It starred
Gwyneth Paltrow and
John Hannah, and featured
John Lynch, Jeanne
Tripplehorn and Virginia
McKenna. The music was
composed by David
Hirschfelder. The film
opens with Helen Quilley
(Gwyneth Paltrow),
getting fired from her
public relations job. The
plot splits into two parallel
universes. In one, Helen
catches a London
Underground train home on time, and in the other she misses
it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sliding_Doors
The Proposal is a 2009
American romantic
comedy film, directed by
Anne Fletcher and starring
Sandra Bullock and Ryan
Reynolds. The screenplay
was written by Pete
Chiarelli. The film was
released on July 22, 2009,
in the United Kingdom
and June 19 in North
America by Touchstone
Pictures. The film opens
with Margaret Tate the

2. executive editor-in-chief of a book publishing company,
Colden Books. Her workers strongly dislike her for her
bossy, cold demeanor. After learning she is being deported
to Canada, she forces Andrew to marry her, as his future is
tied to hers. Andrew conditionally agrees to marry Margaret.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Proposal_(film)