Happy Accidents story
Happy Accidents is a 2000 American romantic comedy film starring Marisa Tomei and Vincent D'Onofrio. Synopsis: A New York City woman with a string of failed relationships falls in love with a man who claims to be from the year 2470.
21 total · 7 major · 14 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| boyfriend and girlfriend | major | The story follows the relationship between the hopeless romantic Ruby and her new time traveler boyfriend, Sam, with all its ups and downs. |
| human romantic relationship choice | major | Ruby struggled with whether or not to break up with her boyfriend Sam. She really loved him on the one hand, but he claimed to be from the future and kept pictures of other women that he couldn't explain on the other. |
| romantic infidelity | major | Ruby strongly suspected that Sam was cheating on her with a woman named Delancey, and Sam could not prove otherwise. |
| romantic love | major | Ruby and Sam were head over heels in love with each other. |
| time travel | major | Sam was from the year 2470. He'd traveled back in time to save Ruby from being fatally hit by a car. |
| time traveler living secretly among us | major | Sam reluctantly revealed to Ruby that he was a time traveler from the year 2470. In a surprise twist, it turned out that Ruby's therapist was a time traveler who'd taken up residence in the past to avoid being prosecuted for tax evasion in her own time. |
| trust | major | Ruby struggled over whether or not she should trust Sam when he told her that he was being faithful to her in spite of persuasive circumstantial evidence to the contrary, and also that he was a time traveler from the year 2470. The story culminated with Ruby assuring Sam that she trusted him in spite of him not being able to definitively prove his claims. |
| alcohol abuse | minor | Ruby and her mother discussed her father's alcoholism. |
| coping with the death of a family member | minor | Sam had taken the tragic death of sister pretty hard, and in his words "kind of lost it. |
| environmental issue | minor | A friend of Ruby's spoke of how the rain forests were disappearing. |