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Serving Sara

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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

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2/4

Felix Vasquez Jr.

This movie has many of the usual elements a romantic comedy has.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Apr., 29 2009 03:15 AM

Cinema Crazed

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Urban Cinefile Critics

Excruciating.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Oct., 18 2008 04:38 AM

Urban Cinefile

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1/4

Susan Stark

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Mar., 10 2007 05:39 AM

Detroit News

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Hank Sartin

Romantic comedy ought to have some romance and laughs, but this extraordinarily flat effort has neither.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 03 2007 06:50 PM

Chicago Reader

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Christy Lemire

Crass and joyless.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 03 2007 06:49 PM

Associated Press

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2/4

Scott Nash

Filled with artificial sweetener, and ultimately not satisfying enough.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Sep., 30 2005 03:21 AM

Three Movie Buffs

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1/4

Michael Dequina

Any effort anyone puts forth is obviously for naught when the movie's supposedly showstopping set piece has Perry stick his arm up a bull's anus to tickle his prostate.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 07 2005 11:38 PM

TheMovieReport.com

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Susan Michals

Hurley in particular is astoundingly awful.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Feb., 01 2004 08:17 AM

FilmStew.com

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Nick Rogers

If he so chooses, David Schwimmer could make a movie co-starring Gallagher and Yakov Smirnoff. It would have to be better.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jun., 27 2003 12:22 AM

State Journal-Register (Springfield, IL)

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2/4

Tyler Hanley

One clever concept, several witty comedians, and many commonplace scenarios means Serving Sara will be served more at Blockbuster than at the multiplexes.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | May., 20 2003 05:20 PM

Palo Alto Weekly

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2/5

John R. McEwen

...Designed to appeal to moviegoers whose goal is to sit in an air-conditioned theater for 1½ hours with their brains on 'pause.'

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Feb., 08 2003 08:37 AM

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4/10

Andrew Manning

Here's a stretch: Elizabeth Hurley is a sexy English girl and Matthew Perry is Chandler in this senseless, surprisingly unfunny comedy.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 13 2003 03:29 AM

Radio Free Entertainment

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3/5

Clint Morris

There's still something vaguely enjoyable about the film, as there has been with most of Matthew Perry's movies.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Oct., 02 2002 02:19 PM

Moviehole

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1/4

David Nusair

[Cedric the Entertainer] gives what just might be the worst performance of the year (and no, I'm not forgetting A Walk to Remember's Mandy Moore).

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Sep., 24 2002 08:41 PM

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1.5/5

Garth Franklin

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Sep., 22 2002 08:30 AM

Dark Horizons

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Eric D. Snider

Lame, limp, unappealing, incompetent, clueless -- these are the kindest words I can come up with to describe this film.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Sep., 18 2002 08:31 AM

EricDSnider.com

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Shirley Sealy

Neither Perry nor Hurley displays a gift for romantic nonsense, and it's difficult to detect any real or faked sexual chemistry between the two stars.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Sep., 14 2002 08:29 AM

Film Journal International

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1.5/4

Mike McGranaghan

It's not pretty watching this likable cast floundering in search of something funny to do.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Sep., 03 2002 07:37 PM

Aisle Seat

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1.5/5

Anita Schmaltz

'...One drawn-out, painful chase, with a few slugs, love smacks and prostate jokes.'

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Sep., 03 2002 12:05 PM

Metro Times (Detroit, MI)

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2/5

Karina Montgomery

Serving Sara is so close to "fun little diversion" that it makes the parts that don?t work hurt more than they really should.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Sep., 02 2002 09:45 PM

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