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Doing their Christmas shopping, Jonathan (John Cusack) and Sara (Kate Beckinsale) meet in Bloomingdales. They simultaneously grab for the last pair of black gloves on display. This leads to a magical New York City evening--ice cream, ice skating, faux-intimate cross talk. When they part, he writes his phone number on a $5 bill; she places hers in a used book that she promises to sell. If fate means for them to be together, these clues will circulate back to one or the other of them, she says...
...have to equal boring movies. In the hands of a skilled writer, such limitations often yield greater creativity, as writers come up with new twists on old conventions. In Cusack’s case, witness Gross Pointe Blank, which took the romantic comedy genre (in which Cusack most comfortably walks) and tweaked it, hilariously, by making Cusack’s leading man an assassin. Unfortunately, for every inspired screenplay, there are hundreds of others that are content to play by the rules, re-staging old scenes and re-hashing old material. We’re consequently served up fare that...
...dappled (and World Trade Center-less) Manhattan, Serendipity wastes no time in introducing its central characters. Cusack plays Jonathan Trager, a nice floppy-haired guy; Kate Beckinsale (of Pearl Harbor ‘fame’) plays Sara, a nice wild-haired girl. In the first scene they “meet cute,” both reaching for the same pair of gloves in a Christmas-crazy Bloomingdales. Each wants the gloves as a present for a respective significant other (oh, shucks). The pair, nonetheless, hit it off, and together they enjoy a wonderful, life-changing day. We know...
...pursuit, the outcome of which should be pretty obvious if you’ve ever seen a movie with a guy and a girl, each are aided by a Funny Best Friend. Beckinsale drags along Eve (Molly Shannon, late of “Saturday Night Live”) and Cusack enlists Dean (Jeremy Piven, who struck a nice chemistry with Cusack in Grosse Pointe Blank). Both provide solid support, though I wish that they existed as more than just sounding boards/agents to further the plot, given that they are the only other characters with substantial screen time in this sparsely...
...café, he walks in!) that had my audience guffawing gently near the beginning, groaning by the end. I’m not certain whether the groans were a reaction to the shamelessness of the plot contrivances, or whether the audience simply wanted to see Beckinsale and Cusack together already. They are, admittedly, really cute together. Beckinsale lends earnestness to a somewhat flimsy character, and Cusack, we’ve talked about him. But if you came to see sparks fly between the leads, be advised, a bathroom break is not a good idea...