serendipity Movie Review

Last year John Cusack -- modern Hollywood's most endeari= ng Everyman -- starred in "Pearl Harbor," plays the kind of dreamy, insta= ntly delightfully darling that put her on the map in British pictures like "Cold Comfort Farm" and "Shooting Fish."

"Serendipity's" only real downfall is that it's so focused on closing the circle of cute coincidence that it barrels right past an obvious, logical and perfectly romantic ending to conclude five minutes later in a way that's serviceable and winsome, but exasperatingly over-scripted to conform to the formula.