Serendipity Page #5

Synopsis: Jonathan Trager and Sara Thomas met while shopping for gloves in New York. Though buying for their respective lovers, the magic was right and a night of Christmas shopping turned into romance. Jon wanted to explore things further but Sara wasn't sure their love was meant to be. They decided to test fate by splitting up and seeing if destiny brought them back together... Many years later, having lost each other that night, both are engaged to be married. Still, neither can shake the need to give fate one last chance to reunite them. Jon enlists the help of his best man to track down the girl he can't forget starting at the store where they met. Sara asks her new age musician fiance for a break before the wedding and, with her best friend in tow, flies from California to New York hoping destiny will bring her soulmate back. Near-misses and classic Shakespearean confusion bring the two close to meeting a number of times but fate will have the final word on whether it was meant to be.
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Director(s): Peter Chelsom
Production: Miramax Films
  3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.9
Metacritic:
52
Rotten Tomatoes:
59%
PG-13
Year:
2001
90 min
$49,968,653
Website
4,673 Views


- We're going to New York?|- Yeah. Yea!

# I want you|to get together #

# I want you|to get together #

#I want you|to get together#

# Put your hands together|one time #

# I want you|to get together #

# I want you|to get together ##

Hey! Excuse me.

- Why so tense?|- Because you're|freaking me out, all right?

- Is there another space|you can be in?|- Oh. Excusez-moi.

- Uh-huh.|- And what is it you do?

Why, my sales clerk friend,|I happen to write for|a little publication.

Maybe you've heard of it.|It's called the New York Times.

- Oh.|- Yeah.|-[Phone Ringing]

[Ringing]

Hello. Who?

Dean? And who may|I say is calling?

Huh? Hang on.|Your editor.

Hi. No.

Didn't get a chance|to write that one. Uh--

Didn't write|that one either.

Uh, with all due respect, sir,|they'll all still be dead tomorrow.

Okay. Thank you.|Bye-bye.

- You write for the obituaries.|- Absolutely. Yeah.

- You must be very proud.|- Uh-huh. I'm the one|with the last word.

- Not tonight. I don't think so.|- Yes, I am. Absolutely.

- Fat chance. Last line.|- Still talking. Yeah, right here.

[Yelling]

I don't know. I don't know.|My eyes are killing me.

- Tell me these numbers match.|- I'll tell you.

- Let me see.|- Don't do that.

- Ah-ah!|- Is it 0293?

- You got it?|- I think you found her.

Too bad the last name's|completely smudged out, though.

Well, it's his fault.|It was his thumb.

When he grabbed it, his thumb|went right across the name.

Completely. I'm kidding.|It was smudged in my hand.

- Would you stop it?|- It's just a little joke.|That's carbon paper for you.

I guess that's why|America rejected it.

- What's that address?|Is that her address?|- That's seven years ago, man.

So go to the building|leasing office...

and you'll find out|who lived there seven years ago.

It ain't rocket science.

Thank you.

- Hi.|- Hey.

- Where to?|- Yeah, where are we going?

- Uh, okay, take us...|anywhere in New York.|- Excuse me?

Anywhere. Wherever|you feel like going.

- That's not a destination, lady.|- Wait. You didn't make reservations?

- Um, okay, Eve, please|don't get mad at me.|- What?

Oh, no.|I cannot believe this.

I need|a borough here, ladies.

I was gonna tell you|when we got on the plane.

You know what?|That's really sneaky of you, Sara.

- I'm not a bloody psychic.|- Eve, wait!

Wait!

- Eve. Eve!|- You tricked me.

I knew you wouldn't come|if I told you the truth.|I needed my best friend with me.

What are you doing, Sara?

Honestly, Sara, I don't|understand you anymore, okay?

Please, tell me something.

Tell me anything that makes|just a little bit of sense.

I've just spent|the entire flight...

staring into the sky,|thinking.

Not about my fiance,|but about this mystery guy...

I met a million|and a half hours ago.

A guy I don't even remember,|except for this...

vague picture I have|inside my head.

It was just a few seconds.|A fragment, really.

And it was like...

in that moment,

the whole universe existed|just to bring us together.

That's why I'm here.

That's why I'm gonna let fate|take me wherever it wants to go.

Because when all this is over,|at least I'm never gonna have|to think of him ever again.

Let's just pray|he's a bald fascist...

who picks his nose|and wipes it under the car seat.

- Hi.|- Hi.

Could you hold on?

Where are you going?

You better be buying me one|frigging big birthday cake,|that's all I gotta say.

Could I get your|destination, please?

- The Waldorf, I guess.|- Finally she gets it.

Okay, we are going...|that way.

And I'm gonna follow.

You can do it yourself. Just open up|the computer and look into it.

- I'm not even sure that I can|give you this information.|- If you can't, why can't you?

Because I'm just a temp, okay?|I don't know the rules.

Couple of months out of college,|you're acting like you're|part of the establishment.

No, no, no, no, no--|What about privacy law, huh?

Forget about privacy laws.|You know what privacy laws do?

- No.|- They protect millionaires.|Do you know who those are?

- Who?|- Tell him who they are.

- Tell him.|- Kids your age.

Pimple-faced college dropouts who|have made unhealthy sums of money...

forming Internet companies|that create no concrete products,

provide no viable services and still|manage to generate profits...

for all of its lazy, day-trading,|son-of-a-b*tch shareholders.

Meanwhile, as a tortured member|of the disenfranchised proletariat,

you find some altruistic need|to protect these digital|plantation owners?

Wow. Come on.

Come on.

- You guys want the tenant|on record in 1994?|- December, to be exact.

- There's your tenant.|- Sebastian Mig-non?

No. Mignon.|It's French.

No, we're looking|for someone named Sara.|You got the right one?

- Maybe he was her boyfriend.|- Thanks.

- You did the right thing.|Really, you did.|- Goodwork, pal.

You got it.|M-I-G-N-O-N.

You got it?|There you go.

- Thank you so much, Sally.|You gotta love her.|- Where is he?

- Brooklyn.|- Okay, let's, uh--|let's grab a subway.

Wait a minute. Wait. Aren't you|forgetting about something?

- What?|- Wedding rehearsal.|Bachelor party.

- Plenty of time.|Plenty of time. Come on.|- You sure?

- Yes. Gotta go to Brooklyn.|Come on.|- [ Barks ]

[ Gasps ]|Prada!

Oh, my God!

Ooh! Prada!

Ooh, I love this stuff.

- That's $20.|- Twenty bucks?

Eve, that's|a horrific knockoff.

At least my fake says "Prada."|Yours says "Prado."

Yeah? Well,|I say for a dollar,

I can buy a little|Magic Marker and fix that.

I'll take it.|Twenty bucks?

Right back here.|Here you go.

Two buckets of balls for the price|of one at the Chelsea Piers today.

- So where are we going to now?|- I don't know.

- Lady, lady, you're a golfer?|- I feel like I feel something.

- Two for the price of one.|- Right where I'm standing.|Hey! Who are you?

Can you believe that?|Two bucket of-- Whoa!

- Will you help me up, ma'am?|Yeah, yeah, help me up.|- Oh, my God.

- Are you okay?|- Is the ball okay?

- Yeah, the back of the head.|Is that all right?|- Oh, my. Goodness gracious.

- I'm all right.|Can you get the flyers?|- Here you go.

- Taxi!|- Sara!

They should|make pills for this.

He's gotta be here.

He's got to be here.|I can feel it.

- Excuse me. Miss?|- Yeah?

- You're blocking my shot.|- Oh.

Oh. Sorry.

This is Nick Roberts,|ESPN News, New York City.

- Oh!|-[Eve] Do you know|who plays golf?.

Guys who are too fat|to play tennis.

Like that guy.

[Man #1]|Well, this is a special occasion.

After all, how many times in your|life is your son gonna get married?

[Man #2]|Well said.

- You wanna know|why I love this game?|- No. Why?

I'll tell ya.

You can take years off from playing|and still come back strong.

Well, me, I haven't played|in over five years.

You're kidding.

- Ow!|- Ooh!

- Are you all right?|- I'm okay.|- Sorry up there.

- Eve, look out!|- Go.

- Oh!|- Oh, my God, I'm so sorry.|I'm, so sorr-- Are you okay?

[ Sara ] Please say something.|Say something.

[ Eve ]|I think I swallowed a filling.

Thank you for letting us in.|Now, Mr. Mignon,

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