Quintessential Soulmate Movie - Serendipity
Although now almost ten years old this movie - Serendipity - still strikes a chord in a soulmate's heart.
Basically, it's a simple "love will conquer" type love story that you might expect to have been produced in the 1930's with William Powell and Myrna Loy.
The couple meets, both have significant others, and lose each other through a series of (certainly unbelievable) turns of fate.
Movie segues to several years later, both are engaged and have not been in contact (I'll explain that later) since that one day chance meeting.
Needless to say both terminate their engagements and find each other for the happy ending.
A little explaining is called for - they meet in Bloomingdales, in New York, at Christmas time while both are reaching for the last pair of black gloves.
John Cusack, playing the man, does the gentlemanly thing and allows the lady, played by Kate Beckinsale, to buy the gloves.
As recompense she takes him for ice cream sundaes at a local restaurant - Serendipity and New York landmark still on East 60th Street.
He pushes for her number, but she refuses, and gets in a cab to drive out of his life forever - never even telling him her name.
However, now fate inserts its trickery into the mix.
As he walks home he realizes he left a scarf in the restaurant and returns to retrieve it.
As he lurches upstairs and approaches the table they shared, she is there, having forgotten her bag with the gloves.
This fait accompli breaks her will, and they spend the afternoon ice skating in Central Park.
Now as they prepare to part, he writes his name and phone on a five-dollar bill, gives it to her; she tries to give her information to him but a wind (more fate) blows the slip of paper from her hand.
She then takes the five with his information and runs across the street and buys breath mints.
She also takes a book and writes her information on the flyleaf.
Now fate must bring the five back to her and the book is sold to a used book store and must find it the way to him.
If either happens, they can contact each other as fate has willed it.
Her next test of fate is to run into the Waldorf Astoria Hotel on Park Avenue.
They both enter separate elevators and punch a floor number (43 floors) - if they arrive together fate will be satisfied.
As the doors close, she relents and yells her name - Sarah.
They both hit the same floor - 23 - but his cab stops at another floor and a kid and his dad enter.
The kid punches every floor on the panel.
She has arrived and waits, but just as he arrives after stopping at 20 extra floors, she enters another cab goes down, and leaves.
Neither now has any way to contact the other.
Fast forward several years, both are engaged to other people; but both also have this constant pesky memory in their minds about that day years ago.
As he is packing for his honeymoon the bag from Bloomingdales with her credit card receipt pops up, and he decides to find her.
Most of the middle of the movie unfolds their respective search for each other.
She flies to New York where he still lives, and he flies to California where he has found she lives - after so many years of searching for her name and address, his fiancé has given him the elusive book as a wedding present.
His fiancé only knew every time they went into a bookstore together he searched for that exact book, but never knowing why.
Beckinsale resigns herself to leave for California but sitting on the plane waiting for takeoff, and having inadvertently switched wallets with her friend, she pays for her headphones with the exact five dollar bill.
They find each other at the skating rink in Central Park and the movie closes with their celebration at Bloomingdales where they first met.
Sappy - yes, unbelievable - certainly; but the best movie I have ever seen to overwhelm a soulmate's heart.
As we search for our Soulmate, I believe our only regrets, or memories we keep, are for those things we didn't do.
I can still remember high school dances as the guys stood on the periphery of the gym telling each other their plans to ask this or that girl to dance.
The majority of times the excuse was you didn't like that song, or she was already dancing with so-and-so.
My only recall is of going home - never having danced once.
I still remember vividly the most beautiful girl I have ever encountered in my life at a friend's party.
She came with a guy, but I never even tried to find out anything about her.
I did find out later she had married, and divorced that guy; then moving to Hawaii.
I could go on for hundreds of words; of course it would get me nowhere.
Soulmates are an elusive animal, few people encounter one.
I have never met a person who has found more than one.
All I can advise is jump at every chance, you might remember an embarrassment or a few turn downs; but I can guarantee you'll never forget that special one that you never even gave a chance.
Watch the movie - I think it will inspire you.
Basically, it's a simple "love will conquer" type love story that you might expect to have been produced in the 1930's with William Powell and Myrna Loy.
The couple meets, both have significant others, and lose each other through a series of (certainly unbelievable) turns of fate.
Movie segues to several years later, both are engaged and have not been in contact (I'll explain that later) since that one day chance meeting.
Needless to say both terminate their engagements and find each other for the happy ending.
A little explaining is called for - they meet in Bloomingdales, in New York, at Christmas time while both are reaching for the last pair of black gloves.
John Cusack, playing the man, does the gentlemanly thing and allows the lady, played by Kate Beckinsale, to buy the gloves.
As recompense she takes him for ice cream sundaes at a local restaurant - Serendipity and New York landmark still on East 60th Street.
He pushes for her number, but she refuses, and gets in a cab to drive out of his life forever - never even telling him her name.
However, now fate inserts its trickery into the mix.
As he walks home he realizes he left a scarf in the restaurant and returns to retrieve it.
As he lurches upstairs and approaches the table they shared, she is there, having forgotten her bag with the gloves.
This fait accompli breaks her will, and they spend the afternoon ice skating in Central Park.
Now as they prepare to part, he writes his name and phone on a five-dollar bill, gives it to her; she tries to give her information to him but a wind (more fate) blows the slip of paper from her hand.
She then takes the five with his information and runs across the street and buys breath mints.
She also takes a book and writes her information on the flyleaf.
Now fate must bring the five back to her and the book is sold to a used book store and must find it the way to him.
If either happens, they can contact each other as fate has willed it.
Her next test of fate is to run into the Waldorf Astoria Hotel on Park Avenue.
They both enter separate elevators and punch a floor number (43 floors) - if they arrive together fate will be satisfied.
As the doors close, she relents and yells her name - Sarah.
They both hit the same floor - 23 - but his cab stops at another floor and a kid and his dad enter.
The kid punches every floor on the panel.
She has arrived and waits, but just as he arrives after stopping at 20 extra floors, she enters another cab goes down, and leaves.
Neither now has any way to contact the other.
Fast forward several years, both are engaged to other people; but both also have this constant pesky memory in their minds about that day years ago.
As he is packing for his honeymoon the bag from Bloomingdales with her credit card receipt pops up, and he decides to find her.
Most of the middle of the movie unfolds their respective search for each other.
She flies to New York where he still lives, and he flies to California where he has found she lives - after so many years of searching for her name and address, his fiancé has given him the elusive book as a wedding present.
His fiancé only knew every time they went into a bookstore together he searched for that exact book, but never knowing why.
Beckinsale resigns herself to leave for California but sitting on the plane waiting for takeoff, and having inadvertently switched wallets with her friend, she pays for her headphones with the exact five dollar bill.
They find each other at the skating rink in Central Park and the movie closes with their celebration at Bloomingdales where they first met.
Sappy - yes, unbelievable - certainly; but the best movie I have ever seen to overwhelm a soulmate's heart.
As we search for our Soulmate, I believe our only regrets, or memories we keep, are for those things we didn't do.
I can still remember high school dances as the guys stood on the periphery of the gym telling each other their plans to ask this or that girl to dance.
The majority of times the excuse was you didn't like that song, or she was already dancing with so-and-so.
My only recall is of going home - never having danced once.
I still remember vividly the most beautiful girl I have ever encountered in my life at a friend's party.
She came with a guy, but I never even tried to find out anything about her.
I did find out later she had married, and divorced that guy; then moving to Hawaii.
I could go on for hundreds of words; of course it would get me nowhere.
Soulmates are an elusive animal, few people encounter one.
I have never met a person who has found more than one.
All I can advise is jump at every chance, you might remember an embarrassment or a few turn downs; but I can guarantee you'll never forget that special one that you never even gave a chance.
Watch the movie - I think it will inspire you.
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