Matthew Perry, Elizabeth Hurley, Bruce Campbell

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 scruf...( read more  read more... )fier 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

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5% liked it

105 critics

PG-13, 99 min.

Directed by: Reginald Hudlin

Release Date: August 23, 2002

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DVD Release Date: January 28, 2003

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Flixster Reviews (547)


  • January 11, 2008
    forget it
  • December 31, 2006
    Good Flick, better than average.
  • December 19, 2006
    alright
  • November 19, 2006
    I'm not sure why I'd watch it again. If it's on tv on a lazy afternoon, I say go for it. If not, pick something better to see.
  • June 9, 2008
    Not too great.
  • September 26, 2009
    One of the worst films I've ever seen, and I've seen Pluto Nash.
  • May 31, 2009
    LOVE movies with Matthew perry but this is totally funny a must see!
  • May 22, 2009
    just another Perry film
  • April 18, 2009
    it was ohkish - something different...but not as funny as i thought it'd be...
  • April 15, 2009
    actually pretty funny

Critic Reviews


August 23, 2002
Claudia Puig, USA Today

Late summer is often the dumping ground for comedies that go flat or romances that fizzle. Sara is both. full review

August 23, 2002
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times

Serving Sara is such a miserable excuse for a movie that the constant ringing of a cellphone at its preview screening served only to improve it. full review

August 23, 2002
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

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. full review

August 23, 2002
Ty Burr, Boston Globe

How inept is Serving Sara? It makes even Elizabeth Hurley seem graceless and ugly. full review

August 23, 2002
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail

Aiming only to be amiably stupid, the movie still manages to fall short of the target. full review

August 22, 2002
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com

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. full review

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  • Hiyachuck
    November 14, 2006
    i just like matthew perry in friends and this was good as well!

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