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Released
2002 · FILM

Serving Sara

A savvy socialite desperate to protect her fortune teams up with a reluctant process server, racing across the country to outwit her cheating husband and the law before the divorce papers seal her fate.

“The One Thing That Could Bring Them Together Is Revenge.”

Directed by
Reginald Hudlin
Written by
Jay Scherick, David Ronn
Runtime
100 min
ComedyRomance
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

When Sara receives divorce papers while she is in New York, she is shocked. Determined not to lose the fortune she accumulated with her self-serving Texan husband, she makes a proposition to her process server, Joe, which leads them on an unpredictable journey across the country.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 22

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Jim MillerShot by Robert BrinkmannScored by Marcus MillerDesigned by Rusty Smith

Box Office

2002 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.6× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$16.9M

Budget$29.0M
Worldwide gross$16.9M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $5.8M — 34% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $7.6M — 45% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,154 theaters

Also known as

  • Mann umständehalber abzugeben!de
  • Mann umständehalber abzugeben! Oder: Scheiden ist Süßde
  • Scheiden ist süß - Serving Sarade
  • Au service de Sarafr
  • Tutta colpa di Sarait

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