Johnathon was laying down in the middle of the skating rink. It was dark and snowy, so how could Sarah recognize him, and throw her glove on his lap? Especially since she had a vague memory of what he looked like 7 years ago?
I know this movie is totally unreal, but they could've done a better job with the ending.
Also, I wish they had told each other they had picked number 23 in the elevator.
Also, I wish they had told each other they had picked number 23 in the elevator.
C'mon......like that's the least plausible thing in the movie?
shareI expect that if they ever release this on DVD or Blu-ray there will be some deleted scenes which explain everything, just like Zack and Miri Make a Porno, watch the deleted scenes in that movie and it makes everything clear. Anyway, who cares, Serendipity is just such a lovely,sweet, understated love story, and I love it!.
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I agree. With all of the trouble everyone had looking for their names and addresses, etc. It would have been interesting to see an "almost miss - but not really" crossing natural paths.
The current ending was just contrived and took us away from the point of the movie. Even though you know at the beginning of the movie what is going to happen, it's all about the journey. Finally ending up at Rock Plaza is just illogical. I think they were thinking about "fate" and "destiny" and it would have happened in any case. okay, whatever.
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"Especially since she had a vague memory of what he looked like 7 years ago? "
3 years no 7
It's really 7 years. That's mentioned several times during the movie.
share"A gap of twelve-to-fifteen years was originally intended for the time between the Jonathan and Sara's first meeting and eventual reunion, and the characters were initially written to be in their early twenties. Audiences felt that both Kate Beckinsale and John Cusack were not 'fresh faced' enough to pull off early twenties in the scenes and that the time line had been too poorly established to tell that the characters met in the late 1980s. Eventually, the film was edited and establishes a five year gap between the initial meeting of the characters, and their reunion. "
shareI think by the end of the movie, with serendipity in full swing, it would have been painfully obvious that this guy laying in the spot they skated...the spot where she fell, with her coat (debatable if it was visible) at this particular time when she went back for the jacket past when everyone else left for the night...to her it would have been quite obvious.
Movie magic at it's best!
Just to clarify, it was Spring (Cusack makes an earlier reference to it, asking Piven, "What happened to Spring?); he was laying on a roller rink. The skaters earlier were roller-blading, not ice skating, so he wasn't lying on the ice, though it was snowing.
"She's, like, a biscuit older than me..."