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Serendipity is a 2001
2001 in film

The year 2001 in film involved some significant events. ...
 romantic comedy
Romantic comedy film

Romantic comedy films, are movies with light-hearted, humorous plotlines, centered on romantic ideals such as a Romance able to surmount most obstacles....
, starring John Cusack
John Cusack

John Paul Cusack is an United States film actor and screenwriter. He won the 1990 Most Promising Actor CFCA Award for Say Anything..., the 1998 Favorite Supporting Actor Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Con Air, and the 2000 Commitment to Chicago Award....
 and Kate Beckinsale
Kate Beckinsale

Kathryn "Kate" Bailey Beckinsale is an England actress, known for her roles in the films Pearl Harbor , Underworld , Van Helsing , The Aviator , Underworld: Evolution and Click ....
. It is written by Marc Klein and directed by Peter Chelsom
Peter Chelsom

Peter Chelsom is an British people actor and film director. He has directed among others such films as Shall We Dance? and the upcoming Hannah Montana: The Movie...
. The original music score is composed by Alan Silvestri
Alan Silvestri

Alan Silvestri is an acclaimed United States Academy Award nominated film score composer and conductor. He studied guitar at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, but dropped out after two years to tour with Wayne Cochran and the C.C....
.

bustling shopping day in winter, Jonathan Trager (John Cusack
John Cusack

John Paul Cusack is an United States film actor and screenwriter. He won the 1990 Most Promising Actor CFCA Award for Say Anything..., the 1998 Favorite Supporting Actor Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Con Air, and the 2000 Commitment to Chicago Award....
) meets Sara Thomas (Kate Beckinsale
Kate Beckinsale

Kathryn "Kate" Bailey Beckinsale is an England actress, known for her roles in the films Pearl Harbor , Underworld , Van Helsing , The Aviator , Underworld: Evolution and Click ....
) when both try to buy the same pair of gloves at Bloomingdale's
Bloomingdale's

Bloomingdale's is a chain of upscale United States department stores owned by Macy's, Inc., which is also the parent company of Macy's. Bloomingdale's has 36 stores nationwide, with annual sales of $1.9 billion....
 department store. Two strangers amid the masses in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
, their paths collide in the mad holiday rush as they feel a mutual attraction.






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Serendipity is a 2001
2001 in film

The year 2001 in film involved some significant events. ...
 romantic comedy
Romantic comedy film

Romantic comedy films, are movies with light-hearted, humorous plotlines, centered on romantic ideals such as a Romance able to surmount most obstacles....
, starring John Cusack
John Cusack

John Paul Cusack is an United States film actor and screenwriter. He won the 1990 Most Promising Actor CFCA Award for Say Anything..., the 1998 Favorite Supporting Actor Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Con Air, and the 2000 Commitment to Chicago Award....
 and Kate Beckinsale
Kate Beckinsale

Kathryn "Kate" Bailey Beckinsale is an England actress, known for her roles in the films Pearl Harbor , Underworld , Van Helsing , The Aviator , Underworld: Evolution and Click ....
. It is written by Marc Klein and directed by Peter Chelsom
Peter Chelsom

Peter Chelsom is an British people actor and film director. He has directed among others such films as Shall We Dance? and the upcoming Hannah Montana: The Movie...
. The original music score is composed by Alan Silvestri
Alan Silvestri

Alan Silvestri is an acclaimed United States Academy Award nominated film score composer and conductor. He studied guitar at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, but dropped out after two years to tour with Wayne Cochran and the C.C....
.

Plot

On a bustling shopping day in winter, Jonathan Trager (John Cusack
John Cusack

John Paul Cusack is an United States film actor and screenwriter. He won the 1990 Most Promising Actor CFCA Award for Say Anything..., the 1998 Favorite Supporting Actor Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Con Air, and the 2000 Commitment to Chicago Award....
) meets Sara Thomas (Kate Beckinsale
Kate Beckinsale

Kathryn "Kate" Bailey Beckinsale is an England actress, known for her roles in the films Pearl Harbor , Underworld , Van Helsing , The Aviator , Underworld: Evolution and Click ....
) when both try to buy the same pair of gloves at Bloomingdale's
Bloomingdale's

Bloomingdale's is a chain of upscale United States department stores owned by Macy's, Inc., which is also the parent company of Macy's. Bloomingdale's has 36 stores nationwide, with annual sales of $1.9 billion....
 department store. Two strangers amid the masses in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
, their paths collide in the mad holiday rush as they feel a mutual attraction. Despite the fact that each is involved in another relationship, Jonathan and Sara spend the evening traveling Manhattan
Manhattan

Manhattan is one of the five borough of New York City, located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River.With a United States Census of 1,620,867 living in a land area of 22.96 square miles , Manhattan, coextensive with New York County, is the most population density county in the United States, w...
. But when the night reaches its inevitable end, the two are forced into determining some kind of next step. When the smitten Jonathan suggests an exchange of phone numbers, Sara balks and proposes an idea that will allow fate
Destiny

Destiny refers to a predetermined course of events. It may be conceived as a Predeterminism future, whether in general or of an individual. It is a concept based on the belief that there is a fixed natural order to the universe....
 to take control of their future. Sara asks Jonathan to write his name and phone number on a $5 dollar bill, while she writes her name and number on the inside cover of a used copy of Love in the Time of Cholera
Love in the Time of Cholera

Love in the Time of Cholera is a novel by Nobel Prize winning Colombian author Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez that was first published in Spanish language in 1985, with an English language translation released in 1988 by Alfred A....
. If they are meant to be together, she tells him, they will find their way back into one another's life.

The majority of the film takes place five years later, and consists largely of repeated "almost coincidences" where the two romantic leads almost, but not quite, meet. (One character is seen walking in to one door of a building at the exact same instant as the other character walks out of a different door in the same building, etc).

Cast

  • John Cusack
    John Cusack

    John Paul Cusack is an United States film actor and screenwriter. He won the 1990 Most Promising Actor CFCA Award for Say Anything..., the 1998 Favorite Supporting Actor Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Con Air, and the 2000 Commitment to Chicago Award....
     as Jonathan Trager
  • Kate Beckinsale
    Kate Beckinsale

    Kathryn "Kate" Bailey Beckinsale is an England actress, known for her roles in the films Pearl Harbor , Underworld , Van Helsing , The Aviator , Underworld: Evolution and Click ....
     as Sara Thomas
  • Molly Shannon
    Molly Shannon

    Molly Helen Shannon is an American actress, comedienne and writer. She is best known for her work as a cast member of Saturday Night Live from 1995-2001, and is currently starring on the NBC sitcom Kath & Kim ....
     as Eve
  • Bridget Moynahan
    Bridget Moynahan

    Kathryn Bridget Moynahan is an United States model and actor. She is known for her supporting roles in films such as Coyote Ugly , I, Robot and Lord of War ....
     as Halley Buchanan
  • Jeremy Piven
    Jeremy Piven

    Jeremy Samuel Piven is a three-time Emmy Award- and Golden Globe Award-winning American actor. He is best known for his role as Ari Gold on the critically acclaimed HBO television series Entourage ....
     as Dean Kansky
  • John Corbett
    John Corbett

    'John Joseph Corbett, Jr.' is an United States actor and country music singer. Though he first gained notice as the piano-flinging character of Chris "Chris in the Morning" Stevens in the television series Northern Exposure from 1990 to 1995, he is also known from his role as Carrie Bradshaw's lovable boyfriend, Aidan, on the HBO comedy ...
     as Lars Hammond
  • Eugene Levy
    Eugene Levy

    Eugene Levy is a Canada Emmy- and Grammy Award-winning actor, television director, Television producer, musician and writer. He is known for his work in Canadian television series, United States film and television movies....
     as Bloomingdale's Salesman


Soundtrack

  • Never a Day - Wood
    Wood

    Wood is an organic material; in the strict sense wood is produced as secondary xylem in the stems of woody plants, notably trees but also shrubs, etc....
  • Moonlight Kiss - Bap Kennedy
    Bap Kennedy

    Martin "Bap" Kennedy is a singer-songwriter from Belfast, Northern Ireland and older brother of singer Brian Kennedy . He is noted for writing the song "Moonlight Kiss" which was on the soundtrack for the film Serendipity ....
  • January Rain - David Gray
    David Gray (musician)

    David Gray is an England singer-songwriter. Although he released his first studio album in 1993, he didn't receive worldwide attention until the release of White Ladder six years later....
  • Waiting in Vain
    Waiting in Vain

    "Waiting in Vain" is a song written and recorded by reggae musician Bob Marley for his 1977 album Exodus . Released as a single, it hit number twenty-seven in the UK Singles Chart....
     - Annie Lennox
    Annie Lennox

    Annie Lennox is a British musician, vocalist and Academy Award-winning songwriter. She is both a solo artist and the lead singer of the musical duo Eurythmics, hailed as "The Greatest White Soul Singer Alive" by members of the rock industry on the VH1 show 100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll in 1999....
  • The Distance - Evan & Jaron
  • Like Lovers Do - Heather Nova
    Heather Nova

    Heather Nova, is a singer-songwriter and poet. She has released seven full-length albums and has found lasting success in Germany where two of her albums South and Storm have made their way into the Top-5 of German official album chart ....
  • When You Know - Shawn Colvin
    Shawn Colvin

    Shawn Colvin is a Grammy Award-winning United States singing, songwriter and musician....
  • Northern Sky
    Northern Sky

    Northern Sky is a song from Nick Drake's 1970 album Bryter Layter. The song, written in DADGDG tuning, features piano, organ and celesta, performed by former Velvet Underground member, John Cale....
     - Nick Drake
    Nick Drake

    Nicholas Rodney Drake was an English singer-songwriter and musician best known for his acoustic, autumnal songs. His primary instrument was the guitar, though he was also proficient at piano, clarinet, and saxophone....
  • Cool Yule - Louis Armstrong
    Louis Armstrong

    Louis Daniel Armstrong , nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer.Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an innovative cornet and trumpet player, Armstrong was a foundational influence on jazz, shifting the music's focus from collective improvisation to solo performers....
  • This Year - Chantal Kreviazuk
    Chantal Kreviazuk

    Chantal Kreviazuk is a Canada singer-songwriter of the adult contemporary music genre. She is also a classically trained pianist, and can play the guitar....
  • (There's) Always Something There to Remind Me - Brian Whitman
    Brian Whitman

    Brian David Whitman is a radio talk show host and voice impressionist. Whitman was born in Staten Island, New York and graduated from Wagner College in May 1994 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science....
  • 83 - John Mayer
  • Fast Forward - Alan Silvestri
    Alan Silvestri

    Alan Silvestri is an acclaimed United States Academy Award nominated film score composer and conductor. He studied guitar at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, but dropped out after two years to tour with Wayne Cochran and the C.C....
  • Someone Like You - Van Morrison
    Van Morrison

    George Ivan Morrison Order of the British Empire is a Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, author, poet and multi-instrumentalist, who has been a professional musician since the late 1950s....


See also

  • Serendipity
    Serendipity

    Serendipity is the effect by which one accidentally discovers something fortunate, especially while looking for something else entirely. The word has been voted as one of the ten English words that were Words hardest to translate in June 2004 by a United Kingdom translation company....


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