Serving Sara
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| Serving Sara | |
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| Directed by | Reginald Hudlin |
| Produced by | Dan Halsted |
| Written by | Jay Scherick, David Ronn |
| Starring | Matthew Perry, Elizabeth Hurley, Bruce Campbell |
| Editing by | Jim Miller |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(s) | August 20, 2002 |
| Running time | 99 min |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $29,000,000 |
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Serving Sara is a 2002 romantic comedy film which stars Matthew Perry, Elizabeth Hurley and Bruce Campbell. Joe Tyler (Perry) is a process server who is given the assignment to serve Sara Moore (Hurley) with divorce papers.
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[edit] Plot
The movie opens with Joe, a week late, serving a Mafia kingpin known as Fat Charlie with a summons to appear as a witness in court, and his abrasive boss Ray (Cedric the Entertainer) ridiculing him for such while complementing his rival server Tony (Vincent Pastore) for serving multiple targets in record time. Willing to give him one last shot, Ray gives Joe the assignment to serve Sara with divorce papers from her husband Gordon (Bruce Campbell), who is at his ranch in Texas with a mistress (played by Amy Adams) while Sara vacations in upstate New York.
While attempting to serve her, Sara is tipped off by Tony, thus revealing that the reason Joe has been failing is because Tony has been sabotaging his efforts. Eventually Joe does serve her, but is mugged by Fat Charlie's goons (who have been trailing him), leading to them taking his car. The two are forced to take the same bus, they enter a conversation where Joe tells her that, because her husband had the papers filled out due to Texas law, she stands to gain nothing from the divorce. After finding out that the typical "half of everything" law would apply if the papers had been served under New York law, Sara offers Joe a million dollars to serve her husband and rip up her papers. Although he'll lose his job, Joe agrees and the two set off to serve Gordon.
When Ray hears of this, he tells Gordon and sends Tony off to re-serve Sara. Gordon in turn hires a bodyguard (Terry Crews) to protect himself, and Joe, expecting Tony to tail him, leaves a set of bogus clues that lead him to Miami, Florida; Bangor, Maine; and then Amarillo, Texas; where he's shot in the back as he attempts to get on the grounds of the wrong ranch to try and serve the papers. Sara and Joe trail Gordon to his ranch, but Gordon evades them. Eventually they stay at a hotel where Gordon's mistress makes a new deal to Joe for one million dollars ($1,000,000) of the divorce settlement in return for Gordon's location. Joe agrees, but the entire deal is a set-up to get Tony into their apartment to serve Sara. Furious, Sara kicks Joe out.
While Joe contemplates his lost fortune and budding love for Sara, he sees Tony's watch in the picture he took of him serving Sara, and calls Ray to inform him that Tony forgot to set his watch to the correct time zone, and thus the papers do not take effect until 7:04. With mere hours until they both lose a fortune, Joe and Sara trail Gordon to a rodeo, where they evade Gordon's bodyguard and Tony in a motorbike competition. With seconds to spare before 7:04, Gordon is knocked out by a pack of beer dropped on his head by Sara, and Joe serves him under New York law which Gordon, finally accepting the loss, takes the serve as he's being photographed. The film ends with Joe and Sara at Joe's dream vineyard, where they taste-test (and spit out) Joe's first bottle before going inside to have sex.
[edit] Reception
As of August 2007, the film had score of 18 out of 100 on Metacritic based on 26 reviews, indicating "extreme dislike or disgust."[1] On Rotten Tomatoes, 5% of critics gave the film positive reviews based on 103 reviews (5 "fresh", 98 "rotten").[2]
The film opened at #6 at the U.S. box office and earned $5.7 million in its opening weekend. The film had a budget of $29 million and the film's total gross in the United States was $16.9 million.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Serving Sara (2002): Reviews. Metacritic. Retrieved 2007-08-29
- ^ Serving Sara - Rotten Tomatoes. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2007-08-29
- ^ Serving Sara (2002). Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2007-08-29
[edit] External links
- Serving Sara at the Internet Movie Database
- Serving Sara at Rotten Tomatoes
- Serving Sara at Metacritic
- Serving Sara at Box Office Mojo
- Serving Sara at Allmovie
- Matthew Perry interview for Serving Sara
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