Movies
Below are some information about my favorite movies.
Serendipity (2001)
Director Peter Chelsom tackles love and relationships again, this time around creating a tremendously more entertaining product than his last effort. Chelsom's "Town and Country" holds the undesirable distinction of being Hollywood's biggest box office failure. 
"Serendipity" should give moviegoers and critics alike something positive to say about Chelsom as a director.
From that first chance meeting, their attraction to one another surprises them by growing stronger, despite the fact they are happily committed to others. Sara is a big believer in letting fate decide the way. Jonathan on the other hand, is much more pragmatic. He wants to date Sara, and is frustrated by her determination to let what should be, happen naturally. After withholding her name, phone number and everything else personal from Jonathan, she finally acquiesces by writing her name and number in a second-hand book. He in turn writes his name and number on a $5 bill. They go their own ways - Jonathan without the book, and Sara without reading the $5 bill.
Leap ahead 5 years, and now they're separated by thousands of miles as they've ended up on opposite coasts. It's now just days from Jonathan and Sara's weddings - Sara is marrying the annoying Lars, and Jonathan is marrying Hally, a seemingly decent woman who he's obviously not head over heels about. Jonathan still aches for what could have been, and convinces his best friend, dragging and screaming, to join him in his search for Sara. He has to find out if she's the one he was meant to be with, before saying "I Do" to Hally. Meanwhile, Sara's feeling the exact same way and dragging her best friend, Eve with her to look for the man she's increasingly sure is her soul mate.
"Serendipity" is a good escapist film. It's harmless, it's fun - a perfect date movie - and it may be just what movie audiences are looking for at this time. The story's been done before and it's bound to be done again, nonetheless, this incarnation is enjoyable and worth watching. This fluffy romantic comedy has heart, along with a talented cast of leading and supporting players. Stars John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale have a comfortable onscreen chemistry and co-stars Molly Shannon and Jeremy Piven are the perfect "best friends," believable and endearing. John Corbett, as Sara's fiancée, Lars, actually had me laughing out loud at his dead-on portrayal of a Kenny G clone. The script is, admittedly, a bit predictable, but the excellent cast makes "Serendipity" one of the most enjoyable romantic comedies of the year.
Characters in the Movie:
Jonathan Trager - John Cusack
Sara Thomas - Kate Beckinsale
Dean - Jeremy Piven
Hally - Bridget Moynahan
Lars - John Corbett
Eve - Molly Shannon
Bloomingdale's Salesman - Eugene Levy
(from http://movies.about.com/library/weekly/aa100101a.htm)
Titanic (1997)
James Cameron's "Titanic" is an epic, action-packed romance set against the ill-fated maiden voyage of the R.M.S. Titanic, the pride and joy of the White Star Line and, at the time, the largest moving object ever built. She was the most luxurious liner of her era -- the "ship of dreams" -- which ultimately carried over 1,500 people to their death in the ice cold waters of the North Atlantic in the early hours of April 15, 1912.
The journey of "Titanic" begins in the present, at the site of the ship's watery grave, two-and-a-half miles under the ocean surface. An ambitious fortune hunter (Bill Paxton) is determined to plumb the treasures of this once-stately ship, only to bring to the surface a story left untold. The tragic ruins melt away to reveal the glittering palace that was Titanic as it prepares to launch on its maiden voyage from England. Amidst the thousands of well-wishers bidding a fond bon voyage, destiny has called two young souls, daring them to nurture a passion that would change their lives forever.
Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet) is a 17-year-old, upper-class American suffocating under the rigid confines and expectations of Edwardian society who falls for a free-spirited young steerage passenger named Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio). Once he opens her eyes to the world that lies outside her gilded cage, Rose and Jack's forbidden love begins a powerful mystery that ultimately echoes across the years into the present. Nothing on earth is going to come between them -- not even something as unimaginable as the sinking of Titanic.
Also inhabiting this floating microcosm are Cal Hockley, played by Billy Zane, heir to a huge fortune and Rose's fiancé, and Ruth DeWitt Bukater, Rose's socially driven mother, played by Frances Fisher. Oscar® winner Kathy Bates is featured as the ship's most colorful real-life passenger, Molly Brown. Other historic figures include Captain E.J. Smith (Bernard Hill), White Star Line's managing director J. Bruce Ismay (Jonathan Hyde), and master shipbuilder and primary architect of Titanic, Thomas Andrews (Victor Garber). Also participating in this devastating hand of fate dealt to the passengers of Titanic are an Italian emigrant named Fabrizio De Rossi (Danny Nucci), Jack's poor but determined best friend; and Spicer Lovejoy (David Warner), Cal Hockley's ruthlessly loyal valet.
Paramount Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox present a Lightstorm Entertainment Production, a James Cameron film, "Titanic," starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher, Bernard Hill, Jonathan Hyde, Danny Nucci, David Warner and Bill Paxton. Written and directed by James Cameron, the film is produced by Cameron and Jon Landau. Rae Sanchini is executive producer.
(from http://www.titanicmovie.com/present/index.html)