Serendipity

Serendipity is a romantic comedy that is more (sugary) sweet than it is funny.

The film's flimsy plot is rather contrived: one December day in the middle of New York, Jonathan Trager meets the English girl Sara Thomas. They spend a wonderful day together, but as they are both in steady relationships, Sara refuses to arrange another meeting. She is willing, however, to let fate decide. She writes her name and phone number in a book, which she will sell to a second-hand bookshop, while Jonathan lets a $5 bill circulate with his name and number on it. Should the book or the banknote come into the right hands, well, then fate will have shown them the way.

Several years later, Jonathan is about to marry his girlfriend Halley in New York, while Sara's boyfriend Lars has just proposed to her in Los Angeles. Neither of them has forgotten that brief, enchanting encounter, however, and both make one last desperate attempt to find the one and only.