Disclaimer: Unfortunately, writing about why certain movies move me the way they do without actually giving away the ending is not an easy task. And since none of my favorite movies are currently in theaters, I plan to talk about endings when the situation warrants it. I’ll experiment with using a green font when speaking about the ending though—so if you’ve never seen one of these movies, but would like to after reading one of these posts, you’ll know to stop reading when you see green wording. 
#7: Serendipity starring starring John Cusack (as Jonathan Trager) and Kate Beckinsale (as Sara Thomas). Released in 2001.
"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…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."
Just so you know, most of this post comes form a post I wrote about this movie back in November of last year.
I go back and forth in my mind regarding the soul-mate theory, but I love the idea of two people in love not giving up on one another. In an age where people walk away from love too easily, the message in this movie is refreshing. I love the fact that Jon and Sara acted when they couldn't stop thinking about each other. They couldn't find each other after their initial meeting, so they both eventually moved on with their lives, but when they both came to the conclusion that they may have missed the opportunity of a lifetime, they took risks to try to find each other. Life is nothing without risk.
And of course, being the chick-flick lover that I am, I love the fact that they find each other in the end. I love the last scene where Jon is lying on the pond of ice in which he skated with Sara all those years ago on that magical night they met. As he lies flat on his back looking up into the falling snow, with one of the gloves in his pocket that he and Sara split up and gave to each other, he's pondering what might have been when he sees a matching glove fall from the sky. He pulls out the other glove from his coat and realizes that Sara is near.
My stomach flips every time I see this scene. Yeah, it's sappy. And yeah the process that brought them together is a bit of a stretch, but I love this movie anyway, and I watch it once a year during the Christmas season.
