Other Titles • Serving Sara • Flipping the Mark (2002) • Servicing Sara (2001)
Synopses for Serving Sara (2002)
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Process server Joe Tyler (Matthew Perry) makes his living by forcing legal documents upon unsuspecting victims. Sara Moore (Elizabeth Hurley) is one of his targets. As Gordon (Bruce Campbell), Sara’s cattle baron partner, drops her off at the airport for a trip to New York, she thinks everything is just fine. But Gordon isn’t just leaving Sara at the curb -- he’s leaving her in the lurch. In fact, by the time Sara has landed, Joe has already been dispatched by his boss, Ray (Cedric The Entertainer), to serve Sara with papers that will dissolve their partnership and leave her practically penniless.
Dazed, confused and suddenly looking at a life without mansions and fancy cars, Sara can’t believe her eyes when she reads the document. But her focus soon becomes very clear: If she can get Joe to switch alliances, tear up the papers he’s about to serve her and serve Gordon first, she’ll regain control of their collective wealth and get what she deserves. With just a few hours to turn her life around and send Gordon’s life into a tailspin. Sara makes Joe an offer he can’t refuse: Serve Gordon before he serves her and she'll serve up a cool million dollars!
Once adversaries, Joe and Sara now have to learn to work together as they try to track down Gordon before Tony (Vincent Pastore), another process server, gets to Sara. Racing across the country, dodging hired henchman and hurdling every obstacle Gordon can put in their way, this incompatible couple better learn to be compatible-- fast!
(18 votes)
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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).
(17 votes)
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Matthew Perry is a gifted comic actor whose style works nicely on TV but somehow hasn't translated into movie success. To change the formula a bit, Serving Sara puts Perry in a slightly scruffier mode, and pairs him with an actress whose sexiness and comic aplomb should be a good counterpart to his wonderfully shticky style: Elizabeth Hurley. And it still doesn't work. This one is set in the exciting world of process-serving, where Perry teams up with jilted wife Hurley to sting her rich husband (reliable goof Bruce Campbell). This screwball plot might have worked if the two stars evinced any chemistry together, and if director Reginald Hudlin knew how to set up a scene. Bright spot: Cedric the Entertainer, as Perry's boss, gets laughs just from doing the tiniest bits of business while seated behind his desk. No small thing in a movie that otherwise labors. --Robert Horton
(15 votes)
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"...Undeniably Funny..." - Jeffrey Lyons, WNBC-TV
Matthew Perry and Elizabeth Hurley make an irresistible screen team in this "sexy, zany and over the top road movie that breaks all the rules!" - Earl Dittman, Wireless Magazine
Perry stars as Joe Tyler, a process server who will do anything it takes to deliver legal documents to unsuspecting victims. But nothing in Joe's bag of tricks prepares him for Sara (Hurley), the stunning, soon to be ex-wife of a playboy cattle baron named Gordon Moore (Bruce Campbell). When Joe serves Sara with Gordon's divorce papers, Sara presents an offer Joe can't refuse: serve Gordon with Sara's papers first... and earn a cool million dollars!
Pursued by Joe's greedy boss (Cedric the Entertainer) and bumbling office rival (Vincent Pastore), Joe and Sara begin a wildly funny journey to find Gordon... and discover that nothing heats up romance like riches and revenge.
(15 votes)
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