Serendipity

If implausibility and predictability were the marks of a very bad film, then Serendipity would stink. The plot hinges on outrageous coincidence/fate/divine providence (delete according to belief system), for when Jonathan (John Cusack) and Sara (Kate Beckinsale) first meet they exchange numbers in a most unconventional way. She writes hers in a book she intends to sell the following day and he jots his down on a $5 bill she promptly spends. The idea being that, if they ever get hold of said objects again, then they're meant to be together.

Read the full Serendipity review