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Where was Serendipity filmed?

2001 film, directed by Peter Chelsom.

  • San Francisco

The story is set in New York City, about 2,566 miles (4,129 km) from where it was filmed.

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Where it’s set vs. where it was filmed

Set in
New York City; San Francisco
Filmed in
San Francisco
Distance
About 2,566 miles (4,129 km) between New York City and the nearest filming location.
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About Serendipity

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Released
2001
Director
Peter Chelsom
Cast
John CusackKate BeckinsaleBridget MoynahanJohn CorbettJeremy PivenEugene LevyMolly ShannonGary Gerbrandt
Genre
Romantic ComedyChristmas

While Christmas shopping at Bloomingdale's in New York City, Jonathan Trager meets Sara Thomas, a British woman, when both try to buy the same pair of gloves.

As one last experiment, Sara tosses Jonathan one of the gloves.

Seven years later, Jonathan is an ESPN producer about to marry Halley, and Sara is a therapist living in San Francisco, newly engaged to a musician, Lars.

Famous lines from Serendipity

Could you name the film from one of these? Famous lines turn up in the daily game.

  • Synergy and serendipity often play a big part in medical and scientific advances.Serendipity
  • Serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle and discovering a farmer's daughter.Serendipity
  • Tobi Tobias in Serendipity; this is sometimes misattributed to Peter H. Reynolds, who illustrated this book.Serendipity
  • The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny.Serendipity
  • Serendipity is putting a quarter in the gumball machine and having three pieces come rattling out instead of one all red.Serendipity

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