Rating: PG13
Genre: Comedy
Theatrical Release: 08/23/2002(USA)
Release Date: 01/28/2003
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD5.1/DS
Run Time: 99 Minutes
Flags: Not For Children, Adult Language, Adult Humor, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: Paramount

A process server makes an unusual alliance with a beautiful but devious woman in this comedy. Joe Tyler (Matthew Perry) is a former attorney whose career went bust when he picked up some clients who turned out to be associated with the Mafia. These days, Joe makes his living as a process server, who presents people with legal papers -- papers they would usually prefer not to get. One of Joe's fellow servers, Tony (Vincent Pastore), is trying to weasel him out of his job, and has starting tipping off Joe's targets before he can deliver their papers in order to get Joe in dutch with their boss, Ray (Cedric the Entertainer). Joe, however, is able to persuade Ray to give him another chance with a high-profile client, Gordon (Bruce Campbell), a wealthy Texas cattle baron who has decided to divorce his wife and business partner, Sara (Elizabeth Hurley), in order to marry another woman, Kate (Amy Adams). When Joe presents Sara with the divorce papers, she is shocked by the news, which would cost her her half of the Gordon fortune. After Joe gets carjacked and finds herself on the same bus with Sara, she makes him a deal: If he's willing to take back the papers, say he never presented them, and serve a divorce petition to Gordon first, she'll pay Joe an even million dollars. Serving Sara became the focus of some unexpected controversy during its production -- first when Matthew Perry took a brief leave from the production to enter a rehabilitation clinic to fight an addiction to painkillers, and later when Elizabeth Hurley's former boyfriend, Steve Bing, accused Perry of being the father of Hurley's child (a charge both Hurley and Perry denied, and was proven false by blood tests).

~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
Matthew Perry - Joe Tyler
Elizabeth Hurley - Sara Moore
Bruce Campbell - Gordon Moore
Amy Adams - Kate
Vincent Pastore - Tony
Cedric the Entertainer - Ray Harris
Terry Crews - Vernon
Jerry Stiller - Milton the Cop
Joe Viterelli - Fat Charlie

Production:
Reginald Hudlin - Director
Dan Halsted - Producer
Marcus Miller - Composer
Jim Miller - Editor
Carol Leifer Jay Scherick David Ronn - Screen Writer
Carla Curry - Set Designer
Rob Bottin - Animatronic Effects
Drew Boughton - Art Director
J. Grey Smith - Art Director
David C. Scheer - Associate Producer
Heidi Levitt - Casting
Monika Mikkelsen - Casting
Robert Brinkmann - Cinematographer
Francine Jamison-Tanchuck - Costume Designer
Dan Kolsrud - Executive Producer
Byron Phillips - Musical Direction/Supervision
Matt Walden - Musical Direction/Supervision
Rusty Smith - Production Designer
Stacy Brownrigg - Sound/Sound Designer
Richard E. Perry - Special Effects
Greg Hedgepath - Supervising Sound Editor
Donald Sparks - First Assistant Director

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