Serendipity (film)

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Serendipity
Directed by	Peter Chelsom
Produced by	Simon Fields Robert Levy
Written by	Marc Klein
Starring	John Cusack Kate Beckinsale John Corbett Jeremy Piven Eugene Levy Bridget Moynahan
Music by	Alan Silvestri
Distributed by	Miramax Films
Release date(s)	October 5, 2001
Running time	90 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English, French
Budget	~ US$28,000,000
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Serendipity is a 2001 romantic movie, starring Kate Beckinsale and John Cusack. It is written by Marc Klein and directed by Peter Chelsom. The original music score is composed by Alan Silvestri.

Tagline: "Can once in a lifetime happen twice?"

On a bustling shopping day in winter, Jonathan meets Sara when both try to buy the same pair of gloves at Bloomingdale's department store. Two strangers amid the masses in New York City, 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 travelling Manhattan. 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 to take control of their future. 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 seven 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).