Serendipity

Synopsis:

Jonathan Trager and Sara Thomas met while shopping for gloves in New York. Though buying for their respective lovers, the magic was right and a night of Christmas shopping turned into romance. Jon wanted to explore things further but Sara wasn’t sure their love was meant to be. They decided to test fate by splitting up and seeing if destiny brought them back together… Many years later, having lost each other that night, both are engaged to be married. Still, neither can shake the need to give fate one last chance to reunite them. Jon enlists the help of his best man to track down the girl he can’t forget starting at the store where they met. Sara asks her new age musician fiance for a break before the wedding and, with her best friend in tow, flies from California to New York hoping destiny will bring her soulmate back. Near-misses and classic Shakespearean confusion bring the two close to meeting a number of times but fate will have the final word on whether it was meant to be.

Quick Thoughts:

This is NOT a queer film. I added it to the database as a holiday film based on initial reviews about a lesbian best friend. Now that I’ve finally watched “Serendipity”, that’s not correct. Eve’s sexuality is never identified one way or another. All it was is a assumption made by Jon’s fiancee when Sarah shows up with Eve – and a rather distasteful joke at that. As a film, it’s meh – the excessive chance encounters start off cute and serendipitous, but become tiresome about halfway through the movie. I’d skip this movie, especially as it’s not even a queer film. Once I update “The COMPLETE Checklist of ALL Queer Holiday Films, Shorts, & Series!” I’ll remove this film from the database.