Stars:
Matthew Perry, Elizabeth Hurley, Bruce Campbell, Amy Adams, Vincent Pasture, and
Cedric The Entertainer
Writers:
Jay Scherick and David Ronn
Director:
Reginald Hudlin
Feature
length: 99 minutes
Extras:
Director’s Commentary, Featurette, Outtakes, Deleted Scenes, Extended
Alternate Scenes, and Trailer
Languages:
English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound and English and French Language Dolby
Surround Sound
Subtitles:
English Captions and Closed Captions
Packaging:
Amaray Keep Case
Chapter
Stops: 17
Sound:
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound and Dolby Surround Sound
Year
of Theatrical Release: 2002/DVD Release: 2003
Theatrical
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Home
Video Distributor: Paramount Home Entertainment
MPAA
Rating: PG-13
Reviewer:
Mark A. Rivera
Matthew
Perry stars as a process server who serves the English wife (Hurley) of a Texas
cattle baron (Campbell) with divorce papers only to get a counter offer to serve
George with divorce papers first and earn a cool million dollars. Soon it
becomes a race against the clock with Joe’s greedy boss (Cedric The
Entertainer) sending Joe’s office rival to serve Sara.
“Serving
Sara” is an amusing comedy with lots of fun side characters and twists. Bruce
Campbell is still the best sport when it comes to doing physical action and
making even a smarmy character likeable, Hurley is sexy, Cedric is funny, and
Perry essentially does the same smart-alecky dialogue he does on “Friends.”
Reginald
Hudlin provides an articulate and screen specific feature length audio
commentary track as well as optional commentary for three outtakes (4:00), two
deleted scenes (2:11), and three extended alternate scenes (4:18). There is also
a behind-the-scenes featurette (19:08) and the film’s theatrical trailer
(2:32) presented in a widescreen (1.85:1) aspect ratio with a full Dolby Digital
5.1 Surround Soundtrack. A montage of film clips from Paramount films available
on DVD that are recommended for Valentine’s Day viewing appears before the
disc’s menus, which are standard interactive still frames that are easy to
navigate.
“Serving
Sara” is being sold in both anamorphic widescreen and full screen transfers
with the same extra features that I have detailed above, but sold separately.
The widescreen edition presents “Serving Sara” with a beautiful and colorful
widescreen (1.85:1) aspect ratio enhanced for 16 by 9 televisions and a
well-mixed English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Soundtrack. An English and a
French Language Dolby Surround Soundtrack is also included along with English
Captions and Closed Captions for the hearing impaired as options. The
featurette, deleted scenes, and extended alternate scenes all feature English
Captions and French Language Subtitles as well.
“Serving
Sara” is available on DVD-Video now from Paramount Home Entertainment.
©
Copyright 2003 By Mark A. Rivera
All Rights Reserved.