Synopsis: A frustrated and lonely woman is hit by a car and then transported to an alternate reality where she meets her other self, who took different decisions earlier in life. She and this other self then exchange their respective lives. She is thus placed in a situation where she is married to a guy she had rejected in her original life thread, a decision she regretted; she also has three children to look after, in her new reality.
Appraisal: Not completely unentertaining existential comedy which is however fairly predictable; it is a variation on the dramatically-oriented Giulia e Giulia (1987); it is also (apparently) a female version of Mr. Destiny (1990), which I haven't seen - by the way, The Family Man (2000) is another film which owes its main plot ideas to that 1990 film. Earlier works which deal in similar "what if" issues are Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) and It's a Wonderful Life (1946). The "parallel lives" aspect was present also in La double vie de Véronique (1991), which is barely worth mentioning since it is so bad, and in a film I haven't seen, Passion of Mind (2000). And I have a vague notion of having also seen a TV show episode which had a resembling storyline; the show was perhaps "The Twilight Zone".
Rating: 38
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