Love Likes Coincidences is a 2011 Turkish drama film

Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

, directed by Ömer Faruk Sorak, starring Mehmet Günsür

Mehmet Günsur

Mehmet Günsür is a Turkish actor.-Biography:Günsür worked first as a barman and then as a model before becoming an actor. He graduated from Italian High School. Since his debut, he has acted in Turkish, Italian, and some American films...

 and Belçim Bilgin Erdoğan as star crossed lovers whose lives are intertwined by a series of coincidences. The film, which opened on at number 1 in the Turkish box office, is one of the highest grossing Turkish films of 2011

Turkish films of 2011

A list of films produced by the Turkish film industry in Turkey in 2011.-Highest-grossing films:-Events:JanuaryA list of films produced by the Turkish film industry in Turkey in 2011.-Highest-grossing films:-Events:January...

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Plot

One September morning in 1977 in Ankara, a young man rushes his pregnant wife to the hospital for the impending birth. He crashes into another car, whose driver is another father-to-be. As a result of the accident, the woman in the car they hit gives birth prematurely, resulting in both babies being born on the same day at the same hospital. That accident becomes the first of many coincidences that will connect the fates of Özgür and Deniz, whose lives will continue to intersect throughout the rest of their childhood and teenage years in Ankara. Each time their paths intersect, the cause of the intersection greatly transforms both Özgür and Deniz’s lives. However, their lives never fully intertwine because whatever it is that brings them together manages to build a wall between until their next encounter, some 25 years on, in Istanbul.

Release

The film opened on nationwide general release in 350 screens across Turkey on at number 1 in the national box office with a first weekend gross of US$1,779,485.