Unbothersome fluff to do with romance and destiny and the One Right Person. Jonathan and Sara, meeting cute at a glove rack during Christmas rush (he shopping for his current girlfriend, she for her boyfriend), spend several magical hours together, and then separate without knowing the other's name: he writes his on the back of a five-dollar bill, she writes hers on the flyleaf of a García Márquez novel -- both to be re-entered into general circulation -- and they leave their fate to fate. Seven years later, the week before they're to wed their respective new partners, they desperately try to give fate a hand. The total concoction is supremely precious, which is not to say "of great value." (Slightly less value, even, than director Peter Chelsom's earlier comedy from the same year, Town and Country.) John Corbett steals his scenes, if not the show, playing a dippy, Yanni-haired, New Age musician who is nonetheless a feasible fiancé for the heroine, Kate Beckinsale. The preferable, after all, is only John Cusack. With Jeremy Piven, Molly Shannon, Eugene Levy. (2001) — Duncan Shepherd
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