Serendipity (film)

Serendipity ( Original title: Serendipity ) is an American romantic comedy from 2001, based on the novel by Marc Klein. In the U.S., the film celebrated on October 5, 2001 premiere, while he started off in Germany and Switzerland on 29 November 2001 in theaters.

Action

Sara Thomas and Jonathan exchangers meet Christmas shopping in New York, where both have the same pair of gloves want to buy in the department store Bloomingdale's. Jon gives Sara the gloves and is invited by her gratitude on an ice coffee. Although both live in committed relationships, they spend the afternoon together and fall in love here. When they separate again in the evening, Jon Sara wants to see and offers her to exchange phone numbers and addresses.

But Sara refuses, because she wants to decide the fate of a reunion: You can Jon writing his phone number on a five dollar bill and buys with this bill a role peppermint. Sara again writes her number in a first edition of the book Love in the Time of Cholera and sold the book the next day in a bookshop. Now, if both find these items, they know that they are meant for each other.

Ten years later, are both Jon Sara shortly before their weddings. Jon wants to marry the beautiful and rich Halley, and Sarah got engaged recently with the musician Lars. When Jon receives from his future wife, the edition of the book with Sara's phone number as a wedding gift, he blows off the wedding. Sara goes to just before her wedding to New York to seek Jon, finds the bill with Jon's number and is looking also in the city after him. They eventually found him on the skating track where they were skating at their first meeting in the winter.

In the last scene, Jon and Sara are seen, as they abut with a glass of sparkling wine in the store where they met years ago for the first time on their wedding day.

Reviews

The film has been criticized mainly because of its action, which is partly based on far-fetched coincidences:

"The plot Risks bursting under the strain of its coincidences. "

" The plot runs to burst through contingencies risk under the strain. "

Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian called the film a typical romantic comedy, but suffer in this case under the plot.

" The lightweight story is based on models of the classic romantic comedy that benefits from charming cast and some funny situations, but does not come without repetitions and lengths to make ends meet. "

Prism ruled with the review " Interesting ":

" And again, one of those love movies whose output you guessed after a few minutes. So again, this is just another romantic tale about the cozy togetherness. The story ripples places in front of him, but the strong performers provide appealing feelings and thus ultimately for good entertainment. "

Awards

Kate Beckinsale and Jeremy Piven were nominated for the Film Award Saturn Award. The film was nominated for Best Comedy for the Young Artist Award.

Background

With a budget of around 28 million U.S. dollars, the film grossed a worldwide about 77.5 million U.S. dollars.

Soundtrack

2001 in film Screenplay Film score John de Borman Christopher Greenbury John Cusack John Corbett (actor) Lucy Gordon (actress) List of film awards David Gray (musician)
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