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the enormous success of the TV show Friends, wouldn't you think the
cast members would be happy to rest on their laurels and count the money
from their enormous paychecks?Nope, far from it. They're all hoping to take their careers one step further - onto the big screen. To date, the most successful "Friend" in this arena is Lisa Kudrow, who appeared with Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal in the hit Analyze This, to be followed up later this year with a sequel called Analyze That. Jennifer Aniston, on the other hand, appeared in The Object of My Affection and last year's Rock Star, while Courtney Cox-Arquette seems to be having difficulty getting past the Scream movies. Matt LeBlanc has fared only slightly better with Lost in Space and a small role in Charlie's Angels and David Schwimmer seems to be focusing on TV movies, but Matthew Perry came close with The Whole Nine Yards. Perry is counting on his latest movie, Serving Sara, to deliver the success he needs to break into the big time, earning him full "leading man" status. |
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"I have to service Elizabeth
Hurley," Perry wisecracked to Entertaiment Tonight,
"and they're paying me do it, so it's quite an easy gig." Written by TV comedy scribes Jay Scherick and David Ronn of Spin City fame, with rewrites by Chuck Martin and Carol Leifer of Seinfeld, Serving Sara seems to have been crafted to complement Perry's style. He plays Joe Tyler, a cynical ex-lawyer turned process server, who finds he's constantly bested by his annoying co-worker Tony (Vincent Pastore). Joe decides to beat Tony to a plum assignment: serving the wealthy but elusive businesswoman Sara Moore (Elizabeth Hurley) with divorce papers. Joe's mission is successful, netting him $5,000 and earning praise from his boss. However, to Joe's amazement, Sara comes after him before he can file the papers. Her husband, a philandering cheat, who left Sara for another woman, is also her business partner and according to the law, whoever gets served with the papers first stands to lose a considerable amount of money so she offers Joe $1 million to serve him first. It's an offer Joe can't refuse, and the two embark on a journey to Texas to find her husband Gordon (Bruce Campbell). The only problem is, he's as elusive as Sara was, and in the meantime, Joe's boss has figured out what happened and puts Tony on Joe and Sara's trail. Amidst the ensuing hijinks, Joe and Sara begin to find themselves attracted to each other, and the film plays out like a romantic/madcap comedy/road trip all in one. - Alexandra Heilbron |