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Serendelicious!
I have seen the theatrical trailers for "Serendipity" for quite a long time and I have to release a statement on this film. It looks absolutely great!
The plot is that two people who meet each other by coincedence (or is it fate??) are turned into this great forever love. On this one cloudy, snowy evening, the two New Yorkers fight over a pair of black gloves at Bloomingdales and that's where it all begins.
These two spend the night together skating and talking, and then when she wants to give him her number, the wind carries out to the rest of the city. The movie then continues three years later where the guy is getting married, but so is the woman. Now, destiny must pull them back together before it is too late.
"Serendipity" stars John Cusack ("America's Sweethearts","High Fidelity") as the curious, intelligent man and Kate Beckinsale ("Brokedown Palace", "Pearl Harbor") as the delightfully humorous young woman who believes in destiny and fate.
This movie looks great will co-stars Molly Shannon (TV's "Saturday Night Live", "Superstar", "Osmosis Jones") and Eugene Levy ("American Pie", "Best In Show", "American Pie 2"). This fun-fest is worthy enough to see and is perfect for this time of the year.
Remember, when fate feels like magic, you call it destiny. When destiny has a sense of humor, you call it "Serendipity".

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Uplifting and Unlikely (but who cares?!)
This movie's message is very welcome right now -- that fate can wear a benevolent face and that destiny can be happy. This movie is Hollywood at its best. Excellent actors. Likable characters. No gratuitous idiocy in any form. Enough tension to keep you rapt in your seat. Satisfying outcome included. (I went with my husband and his best friend -- both cynical movie-goers who prefer action or vampires over love stories. Still, they both admitted that they really enjoyed this movie.)

John Cusack is New Yorker Jonathan Trager. He's days away from his own wedding, but can't forget the girl he met in an intense chance encounter 3 years before. Meanwhile, the girl, Kate Beckinsale as Sarah, is busy with her own life in San Francisco, living with loopy musician boyfriend Lars (John Corbett - Aidan in Sex and the City). The movie centers on Jonathan and Sarah's increasingly intense obsession with finding each other before settling for others who just don't give them that "soulmate" feeling.

Some of the ensuing events seem unlikely. Then again, who hasn't seen a few stunning "coincidences/serendipities" in life? The movie is so good that you're willing to suspend skepticism and glide along. The reward is leaving the theater with a smile. The movie also supplies a lot of good laughs. Eugene Levy is hilarious an an uptight, upscale salesman. Molly Shannon shines as Sarah's best friend. And Jeremy Piven is also charming and funny as Jonathan's unflinching support. As always, John Cusack is a heart-stopper -- one of today's few actors who evokes the grace and magnetism of classic Hollywood.

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Serendipity and Stupidity
This premise of this movie is just plain idiotic. Sara poses an almost impossible probabalistic challenge for her lover, Jon, by writing her address in a to-be-sold book. If he succeeds in obtaining this book, "fate" has allegedly worked its magic. The problem with this is that we are living in a probabilistic universe. Just how much "fate" do you need, anyway? Is not the chance of them meeting in the first place a miracle of "fate" in itself? Jon should have, in response, proposed tossing Sara off a skyscraper, leaving to "fate" whether she lives or not. The chances of her having a parachute handy is only marginally more likely than Jon finding her book, and far more likely than her finding sanity.