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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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Reviews for Serving Sara
Romantic comedy ought to have some romance and laughs, but this extraordinarily flat effort has neither.
The movie itself is a cattle ranch full of joke droppings and mooing shtick not worth stepping in.
A broadly played, lowbrow comedy in which the cast delivers mildly amusing performances and no farm animals were injured by any of the gags.
With Vicodin-sharp timing, Perry wavers from glib to glazed, seeming to openly rue his miscasting as palookaville process server Joe Tyler.
[Hell is] looking down at your watch and realizing Serving Sara isn't even halfway through.
Late summer is often the dumping ground for comedies that go flat or romances that fizzle. Sara is both.
The script is clever enough to give Perry a somewhat dignified role as a sarcastic, educated charmer down on his luck.
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.
Sometimes it feels as if it might have been made in the '70s or '80s, and starred Chevy Chase and Goldie Hawn.
How inept is Serving Sara? It makes even Elizabeth Hurley seem graceless and ugly.
I don't know what they're Serving Sara, but I'm sending it back to the kitchen.
Aiming only to be amiably stupid, the movie still manages to fall short of the target.
Even dumber than Perry's Three to Tango, this latest sitcommy exercise is sporadically funny in spite of itself.
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.
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.
With the dog days of August upon us, think of this dog of a movie as the cinematic equivalent of high humidity.
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