All people involved in this movie should be served with papers demanding that they never collaborate on anything ever again.
Serving Sara (2002)
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Reviews Counted:105
Fresh:5
Rotten:100
Average Rating:3/10
Consensus: Neither funny nor very romantic, Serving Sara is a forgettable time waster.
Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins
Genre: Comedies
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
Reviews for Serving Sara
It's not pretty watching this likable cast floundering in search of something funny to do.
There's something for most everyone to hate in Serving Sara, a screwball comedy in which jokes cross the plate like sinkers.
I don't know what they're Serving Sara, but I'm sending it back to the kitchen.
Its sole purpose appears to be to give Perry something to occupy his time during the yearly hiatus from Friends. Perhaps he should have taken a vacation instead.
How inept is Serving Sara? It makes even Elizabeth Hurley seem graceless and ugly.
Quick-paced though it may be, Sara just doesn’t serve it up fast enough.
Romantic comedy ought to have some romance and laughs, but this extraordinarily flat effort has neither.
Stars Matthew Perry and Elizabeth Hurley illicit more than a chuckle, and more jokes land than crash, but ultimately Serving Sara doesn't distinguish itself from the herd.
Perry’s biting and bitter sarcasm helps fill the gaping holes left in the script by the studio weasels that digested it.
Serving Sara is so close to "fun little diversion" that it makes the parts that don?t work hurt more than they really should.
Serving Sara is the kind of movie that should premiere on an airplane--it's lame but watchable, and you could read a magazine during it and still follow the plot.
As a romantic couple, Perry and Hurley have all the chemistry of roadkill and a bran muffin.
The jokes are telegraphed so far in advance they must have been lost in the mail.
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