Serendipity (2001)

PG-13   |    |  Comedy, Romance


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A couple search for each other years after the night they first met, fell in love, and separated, convinced that one day they'd end up together.


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  • John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale in Serendipity (2001)
  • Kate Beckinsale and Molly Shannon in Serendipity (2001)
  • John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale in Serendipity (2001)

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Director:

Peter Chelsom

Writer:

Marc Klein

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28 August 2002 | witheld
An abomination in the name of filmmaking
Coming soon after Sleepless in Seattle and You've Got Mail, Serendipity tries to capitalize on the idea of two people searching for each other, and only finding each other in the last moments of the film. Sadly, the film fails on the most basic level to entertain, leaving the viewer with nothing but a more-than-mild case of hatred for the protagonists and a sick feeling in their stomachs.

In You've Got Mail the idea that Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan were developing a relationship behind their respective significant others' backs worked because their significant others were shallow, nasty people that we could muster no love for, who continually let down and abused Tom and Meg. In Serendipity, John Cusack is about to marry a wonderful woman. But he is obsessed with a brief encounter he once had with Kate Beckinsale's character, to the point of being willing to abandon his wedding for a chance to meet her. From the first minutes of the movie, when he revealed that he had a girlfriend, and yet was willing to start a relationship with Beckinsale's character, Cusack's character lost the viewers sympathy. In the most stomach turning scene in the movie, when his fiancee gives him the key to find Beckinsale, and, incidentally, dump his fiancee and destroy her life, he looks at her, his face blank, thanks her, and leaves to find another woman.

The characters in Serendipity are never more than shallow and self-centered, willing to mislead their fiancee's, lie, even cheat, for just one chance to have, not just happiness, but ultimate happiness.

If these characters had shown any honesty, any decency towards the jilted parties, perhaps it would have been a different movie. Instead the characters seem to go out of their way to pile lie upon lie, deception upon deception. Cusack, who lent a soulless contract killer likability in Grosse Point Blank, is surprisingly flat here.

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Trivia

Following the destruction of the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001, images of the World Trade Center towers were digitally removed from all skyline shots of New York City.


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Dean: Jonathan Trager, prominent television producer for ESPN, died last night from complications of losing his soul mate and his fiancee. He was 35 years old. Soft-spoken and obsessive, Trager never looked the part of a hopeless romantic. But, in the ...


Goofs

Towards the end of the film a remark is made about "what happened to Spring?" referencing the rather mild weather. This scene appears to have been (re-)shot during the warmer months as many of the locals in the distance are wearing shorts and T-shirts yet everyone in the foreground has a few layers on (though not too many to appear ridiculous), however it's snowing later that day (or the next).


Alternate Versions

On the DVD, there are a few deleted scenes:

  • An alternate opening of how Jon and Sara meet.
  • A scene where Sara asks Jon questions called she calls 'cubing'.
  • Their first kiss.
  • Jon and Dean talking about fate in the car while Eugene Levy's character is driving.
  • Eve explaining how to use the Casanova candle.
  • Sara going to see a psychic after she sees the "Cool Hand Luke" poster.
  • Sara getting a phone call asking if her building sells cashmere gloves.
  • Sara explaining to Eve how she feels about her fiance and a painting she once saw.
  • Jon going home and looking out the window after he loses Sara.


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Joy To The World
Written by
Isaac Watts (uncredited) and Lowell Mason (uncredited)
Performed by Tuba Christmas
Courtesy of the Harvey Phillips Foundation

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Comedy | Romance

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