History Film / Serendipity

* ShoddyKnockoffProduct: While searching for Johnathan in New York City, Eve was thrilled to buy a "Prado" purse from a street vendor. Sara is quick to remind her that at least her fake actually says "Prada" on it.

* TooSoon: The movie was filmed before 9/11, but released afterwards. The twin towers were digitally erased from the New York skyline.

Six years later, Jonathan is engaged to Halley Buchanan and would be getting married in a few days, while Sara's boyfriend Lars Hammond proposes to her. Despite this, both of them continue trying to find the dollar bill and the book (although Sara's belief in supernatural phenomena has greatly decreased) and find themselves in a race against time and destiny in an attempt to meet again before their respective wedding dates. HilarityEnsues.

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: A particularly nasty example where Jonathan's fiancee buys him a book because she's seen him looking at copies of that book dozens of times. Unbeknownst to her, he was only looking to see if it was the copy in which a former love-interest wrote her name and phone number. The copy she buys him turns out to be that copy, and he jilts her at the altar to pursue the other woman now that he knows her name. In other words, his fiancee ends up heartbroken and humiliated as a direct result of her buying him a book she had reason to believe was the perfect gift for him!
%% Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * NoNameGiven: Almost, anyway.
* OneWordTitle: "Serendipity" is both a restaurant that is the site of Jonathan and Sarah's first date and the premise of the film (luck; good fortune; fate.)

* ScrewDestiny: Jonathan really, really hates that it separated him from Sara

* ShoutOut: We see an ad for ''Theatre/SixDegreesOfSeparation'', a play based on an eponymous concept, which is related to MissedHimByThatMuch

* RewatchBonus: This article says it all: https://www.bustle.com/articles/187752-35-things-i-never-noticed-watching-serendipity

* ShoddyKnockoffProduct: We see "Prado" purses offered by street vendors.

* ContrivedCoincidence: All the events that prevent Jonathan from finding with Sarah in NYC (and vice-versa), with some of them being far more believable than others

* BecauseDestinySaysSo: Sara believes that they should let destiny determine whether or not her and Jonathan should be together. At first...

* BecauseDestinySaysSo: The entire premise of the film

Six years later, Jonathan is engaged to Halley Buchanan and would be getting married in a few days, while Sara's boyfriend Lars Hammond proposes to her. Despite this, both of them continue trying to find the dollar bill and the book (although Sara's belief in supernatural phenomena has greatly decreased) and find themselves in a race against time and destiny in an attempt to meet again. HilarityEnsues.

* BareYourMidriff: Sara does this twice in the film. After seeing her fiancé perform, [[SexySoakedShirt she runs through Chinatown during heavy rain rain and wears a shirt that exposes her belly and belly button.(More Noticeable in a deleted scene)]]. Later, Sara gets out of a cab that is stuck in a traffic jam and starts to run between the cars to get to a wedding. After a few flashes of bare skin due to her fluttering buttoned top, her top rides up and gives us a brief but lovely shot of her exposed belly and belly button.

* IWillFindYou

* MissedHimByThatMuch: Also the entire premise of the film

* NoNameGiven: Almost, anyway.
* OrbitalKiss: At the very end, in an empty skating rink, with softly falling snow all around them. Absolutely beautiful.

* SpotlightStealingSquad: EugeneLevy has only three scenes, but he owns them all.

* BareYourMidriff: Sara does this twice in the film. After seeing her fiancé perform, [[SexySoakedShirt she runs through Chinatown during heavy rain rain and wears a shirt that exposes her belly and belly button.(More Noticeable in a deleated scene)]]. Later, Sara gets out of a cab that is stuck in a traffic jam and starts to run between the cars to get to a wedding. After a few flashes of bare skin due to her fluttering buttoned top, her top rides up and gives us a brief but lovely shot of her exposed belly and belly button.

Creator/JohnCusack and Creator/KateBeckinsale star as Jonathan Trager and Sara Thomas, who meet in Bloomingdale's after grabbing the same pair of gloves as a Christmas gift for their respective partners. Jonathan is attracted to Sara and asks her to give him her number, but when he loses it, Sara believes that they [[YouCantFightFate should let]] [[BecauseDestinySaysSo destiny determine]] whether or not they should be together. They are separated, left with nothing but one glove each from the same black pair they had seen in Bloomingdale's, and with no clues to finding each other but a five-dollar bill (on which Jonathan had written his name and number) and a copy of ''Literature/LoveInTheTimeOfCholera'' (in which Sara did the same) that they send out to the world for them to find. [[NoNameGiven And no, they don't even know each other's full names when they get separated.]]

''Serendipity'' is a 2001 RomanticComedy film starring Creator/JohnCusack and Creator/KateBeckinsale as Jonathan Trager and Sara Thomas, who meet in Bloomingdale's after grabbing the same pair of gloves as a Christmas gift for their respective partners. Jonathan is attracted to Sara and asks her to give him her number, but when he loses it, Sara believes that they [[YouCantFightFate should let]] [[BecauseDestinySaysSo destiny determine]] whether or not they should be together. They are separated, left with nothing but one glove each from the same black pair they had seen in Bloomingdale's, and with no clues to finding each other but a five-dollar bill (on which Jonathan had written his name and number) and a copy of ''Literature/LoveInTheTimeOfCholera'' (in which Sara did the same) that they send out to the world for them to find. [[NoNameGiven And no, they don't even know each other's full names when they get separated.]]

* BareYourMidriff: Sara does this twice in the film, albeit briefly. After seeing her fiancé perform, [[SexySoakedShirt she runs through Chinatown during heavy rain rain and wears a shirt that exposes her belly and belly button.(More Noticeable in a deleated scene)]]. Later, Sara gets out of a cab that is stuck in a traffic jam and starts to run between the cars to get to a wedding. After a few flashes of bare skin due to her fluttering buttoned top, her top rides up and gives us a brief but lovely shot of her exposed belly and belly button.

* BareYourMidriff: Sara does this twice in the film, albeit briefly. After seeing her fiancé perform, [[SexySoakedShirt she runs through Chinatown during heavy rain rain and wears a shirt that exposes her belly and belly button.(More Noticeable in a deleated scene)]]. Later, Sara gets out of a cab that is stuck in a traffic jam and starts to run between the cars to get to a wedding. After a few flashes of bare skin due to her fluttering buttoned top, her top rides up and gives us a brief but lovely shot of her exposed belly and belly button. http://www.hotflick.net/u/g/?q=161673.yLtGRQ10n2

* BareYourMidriff: Sara does this twice in the film, albeit briefly. 1: After seeing her fiancé perform, [[SexySoakedShirt she runs through Chinatown during heavy rain rain and wears a shirt that exposes her belly and belly button.(More Noticeable in a deleated scene)]]. 2: Later, Sara gets out of a cab that is stuck in a traffic jam and starts to run between the cars to get to a wedding. After a few flashes of bare skin due to her fluttering buttoned top, her top rides up and gives us a brief but lovely shot of her exposed belly and belly button.[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/serendipity_2.jpg]]
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* BareYourMidriff: Sara does this twice in the film, albeit briefly. After seeing her fiancé perform, [[SexySoakedShirt she runs through Chinatown during heavy rain rain and wears a shirt that exposes her belly and belly button.(More Noticeable in a deleated scene)]]. Later, Sara gets out of a cab that is stuck in a traffic jam and starts to run between the cars to get to a wedding. After a few flashes of bare skin due to her fluttering buttoned top, her top rides up and gives us a brief but lovely shot of her exposed belly and belly button.

* BareYourMidriff: Sara does this twice in the film, albeit briefly. After seeing her fiancé perform, [[SexySoakedShirt she runs through Chinatown during heavy rain rain and wears a shirt that exposes her belly and belly button.(More Noticeable in a deleated scene)]][[http://kate-b.net/photos/displayimage.php?pid=10769&fullsize=1]] Later, Sara gets out of a cab that is stuck in a traffic jam and starts to run between the cars to get to a wedding. After a few flashes of bare skin due to her fluttering buttoned top, her top rides up and gives us a brief but lovely shot of her exposed belly and belly button.

'''''Serendipity''''' is a 2001 RomanticComedy film starring Creator/JohnCusack and Creator/KateBeckinsale as Jonathan Trager and Sara Thomas, who meet in Bloomingdale's after grabbing the same pair of gloves as a Christmas gift for their respective partners. Jonathan is attracted to Sara and asks her to give him her number, but when he loses it, Sara believes that they [[YouCantFightFate should let]] [[BecauseDestinySaysSo destiny determine]] whether or not they should be together. They are separated, left with nothing but one glove each from the same black pair they had seen in Bloomingdale's, and with no clues to finding each other but a five-dollar bill (on which Jonathan had written his name and number) and a copy of ''Literature/LoveInTheTimeOfCholera'' (in which Sara did the same) that they send out to the world for them to find. [[NoNameGiven And no, they don't even know each other's full names when they get separated.]]

''Serendipity'' is a 2001 film starring Creator/JohnCusack and Creator/KateBeckinsale as Jonathan Trager and Sara Thomas, who meet in Bloomingdale's after grabbing the same pair of gloves as a Christmas gift for their respective partners. Jonathan is attracted to Sara and asks her to give him her number, but when he loses it, Sara believes that they [[YouCantFightFate should let]] [[BecauseDestinySaysSo destiny determine]] whether or not they should be together. They are separated, left with nothing but one glove each from the same black pair they had seen in Bloomingdale's, and with no clues to finding each other but a five-dollar bill (on which Jonathan had written his name and number) and a copy of ''Literature/LoveInTheTimeOfCholera'' (in which Sara did the same) that they send out to the world for them to find. [[NoNameGiven And no, they don't even know each other's full names when they get separated.]]