Trivia / Serving Sara

• Box Office Bomb: Budget, $29 million. Gross, $20,146,150.
• Star-Derailing Role: The film careers of Elizabeth Hurley and Matthew Perry were both affected by this 2002 flop.
  • After co-starring with Mike Myers in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Hurley started snagging parts in several comedies such as My Favorite Martian, EdTV, and the remake of Bedazzled. However, none of them came close to matching the success of Austin Powers. In fact, all of those films, aside from Bedazzled, flopped at the box office. After Bedazzled, she starred in a few films with Denis Leary that were intended for a theatrical release but instead got sent Direct to Video. Serving Sara, though, served as the final straw, as Hurley wouldn't headline another mainstream film since and focused more on her modeling work and less on her acting career. She did resume acting years later, but mostly on television.
  • Perry's career pretty much flatlined after Serving Sara and The Whole Ten Yards were both critically trashed and did poorly at the box office. At the same time, Friends had ended. He since only starred in one theatrically released film, as the main character grown up in 2009's 17 Again (2009). He did have a handful of TV roles, including one based on The Odd Couple.