Serendipity (2001) on Netflix
Christmas shopping at Bloomingdale's, Sara Thomas and Jonathan Trager both grab for the same gloves. She trusts fate, not phone numbers, to decide whether the two of them ever meet again.
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- Rotten Tomatoes58%
Trailer
Plot summary
Jonathan Trager and Sara Thomas meet at Bloomingdale's in New York while Christmas shopping, each reaching for the same pair of gloves. Neither is single, yet they spend the afternoon together and share dessert at Serendipity 3, where Sara says fate's small signals shape her decisions. The wind carries off her phone number, so she sets a test: Jonathan writes his on a five-dollar bill, and she writes hers inside a novel meant for a used bookstore. At the Waldorf Astoria they take separate elevators, agreeing that the same floor would mean they are meant for each other.
Cast
- Michael Guarino Jr.as Customer At Bloomingdale's (as Michael Guarino)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Serendipity (2001)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Following the September 11 attacks, images of the World Trade Center towers were digitally removed from all skyline shots of New York City in the film.
- Jennifer Aniston was offered the role of Sara Thomas but turned it down to avoid being typecast in romantic comedies, and Carla Gugino and Claire Forlani both auditioned for the same part.
- With an estimated budget of $28 million, this was the first of Chelsom's films to turn a profit; after some of the biggest commercial failures of all time, such as Town & Country, it marked the first of several box-office successes for him, peaking in 2009 with Hannah Montana: The Movie.
- In 2026 Amazon MGM Studios announced that Michael Showalter would direct a "modern retelling" of the film, which Showalter claimed in a press release would not be a remake or reboot but a "rebuttal".
