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Serving Sara

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Serving Sara (2002)

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Reviews Counted:23

Fresh:2

Rotten:21

Average Rating:3.1/10

Consensus: Neither funny nor very romantic, Serving Sara is a forgettable time waster.

Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for crude humor, sexual content and language

Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins

Genre: Comedies

Theatrical Release:Aug 23, 2002 Wide

Box Office: $16,881,019

Synopsis: Fetching Sara Moore (Elizabeth Hurley) thinks that she is a happily married woman until process server Joe Tyler (Matthew Perry) shows up at her Manhattan apartment to serve her with divorce... Fetching Sara Moore (Elizabeth Hurley) thinks that she is a happily married woman until process server Joe Tyler (Matthew Perry) shows up at her Manhattan apartment to serve her with divorce papers. Sara gives Joe a run for his money, fleeing to the Estee Lauder Salon (a nice touch for those who know Hurley as the company's representative) and dodging him all around New York City. Realizing that she stands to lose everything in the divorce to her Texan cattle-rancher husband (Bruce Campbell) if she is served first, Sara hires Joe to turn the tables and serve her husband first. As the two leave New York for Texas in pursuit of Gordon, they engage in luggage carousel hijinx, have a run-in with a bull, and find themselves at a Monster Truck rally, among other places. Of course, true love is always just around the corner as Sara and Joe spend more time together in pursuit of saving her millions. Vincent Pastore plays Joe's foil, Tony, who has been sabotaging Joe's work for months in order to impress the boss (Cedric "The Entertainer" Kyles) and become the company's star process server. SERVING SARA is directed by Reginald Hudlin (HOUSE PARTY, THE LADIES MAN). [More]

Starring: Matthew Perry, Elizabeth Hurley, Vincent Pastore, Bruce Campbell

Starring: Matthew Perry, Elizabeth Hurley, Vincent Pastore, Bruce Campbell, Cedric the Entertainer, Jerry Stiller, Amy Adams

Director: Reginald Hudlin

Director: Reginald Hudlin
Screenwriter: David Ronn, Jay Scherick
Producer: Dan Halsted
Composer: Marcus Miller
Studio: Paramount Pictures

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Mar 10, 2009

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  • Dubbed - French
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Full Review Source: Detroit News | comment Comment
03/10/07
Susan Stark
Susan Stark
Detroit News
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Romantic comedy ought to have some romance and laughs, but this extraordinarily flat effort has neither.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
01/03/07
Hank Sartin
Hank Sartin
Chicago Reader
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Crass and joyless.

Full Review Source: Associated Press | comment Comment
01/03/07
Christy Lemire
Christy Lemire
Associated Press
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The movie itself is a cattle ranch full of joke droppings and mooing shtick not worth stepping in.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | comment Comment
08/29/02
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly
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A broadly played, lowbrow comedy in which the cast delivers mildly amusing performances and no farm animals were injured by any of the gags.

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08/28/02
Kirk Honeycutt
Kirk Honeycutt
Hollywood Reporter
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With Vicodin-sharp timing, Perry wavers from glib to glazed, seeming to openly rue his miscasting as palookaville process server Joe Tyler.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
08/27/02
Laura Sinagra
Laura Sinagra
Village Voice
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[Hell is] looking down at your watch and realizing Serving Sara isn't even halfway through.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
08/23/02
Desson Thomson
Desson Thomson
Washington Post
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Surprisingly amusing.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
08/23/02
Stephen Hunter
Stephen Hunter
Washington Post
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Serving Sara is little more than a mall movie designed to kill time.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
08/23/02
Robert Koehler
Robert Koehler
Variety
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Late summer is often the dumping ground for comedies that go flat or romances that fizzle. Sara is both.

Full Review Source: USA Today | comment Comment
08/23/02
Claudia Puig
Claudia Puig
USA Today
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The script is clever enough to give Perry a somewhat dignified role as a sarcastic, educated charmer down on his luck.

Full Review Source: Toronto Star | comment Comment
08/23/02
Susan Walker
Susan Walker
Toronto Star
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Perry isn't the only thing wrong with Serving Sara, but he's the thing that takes a pleasantly mediocre movie and turns it into an unpleasantly mediocre one.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
08/23/02
Mick LaSalle
Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle
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Sometimes it feels as if it might have been made in the '70s or '80s, and starred Chevy Chase and Goldie Hawn.

Full Review Source: Newsday | comment Comment
08/23/02
John Anderson
John Anderson
Newsday
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How inept is Serving Sara? It makes even Elizabeth Hurley seem graceless and ugly.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
08/23/02
Ty Burr
Ty Burr
Boston Globe
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I don't know what they're Serving Sara, but I'm sending it back to the kitchen.

Full Review Source: Arizona Republic | comment Comment
08/23/02
Bill Muller
Bill Muller
Arizona Republic
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Aiming only to be amiably stupid, the movie still manages to fall short of the target.

Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
08/23/02
Liam Lacey
Liam Lacey
Globe and Mail
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Even dumber than Perry's Three to Tango, this latest sitcommy exercise is sporadically funny in spite of itself.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
08/23/02
Lou Lumenick
Lou Lumenick
New York Post
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Filmmakers have to dig deep to sink this low. Fortunately for all involved, this movie is likely to disappear as quickly as an ice cube thrown into a pot of boiling water.

Full Review Source: ReelViews | comment Comment
08/23/02
James Berardinelli
James Berardinelli
ReelViews
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You know a movie is DOA when not even the sight of Liz Hurley in a 'Trailer Trash' glitter T-shirt, tartan miniskirt and lace-up python boots can revive it.

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08/22/02
Stephanie Zacharek
Stephanie Zacharek
Salon.com
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With the dog days of August upon us, think of this dog of a movie as the cinematic equivalent of high humidity.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
08/22/02
Stephen Holden
Stephen Holden
New York Times
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