A Novel Romance is a 2011 comedy - drama film about a chance meeting between two strangers that leads the unlikely pair to become roommates .
Despite strangers ' differences , the two eventually realize strangers they have spent strangers ' their lives waiting for one another .
A Novel Romance is a 2011 comedy - drama film about a chance meeting between two strangers that leads the unlikely pair to become roommates , and despite their differences , the two eventually realize that they have spent all their lives waiting for one another .