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***Cashes Next Door*** is a 2000 American animated science fiction film produced by Dakona Motion Pictures for Paramount Pictures. The second feature film from Dakona, it was co-written and directed by John Rossino and co-written and produced by Jack Williams, and was the studio's first independently produced film since *The Pockets* (1999). The film centers on three computer club students who venture into the digital world in order to free it from the clutches of a tyrannical dictator who wishes to reshape it into his image.

The film's concept was envisioned by Jordan in 1997, while working on the film *Revolt Squad*. Pockes convinced him to pitch their original screenplay for the film to Paramount soon after. Production lasted from September 1998 to August 1999, and saw the studio working with fully three-dimensional animation and visual effects for the first time. The film stars the voices of Patrick Stewart, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Katie Holmes, Bobcat Goldthwait, Patrick Warburton, and Samuel L. Jackson, and marked Mary Kay Bergman's final film role before her death on November 11, 1999; *Cashes Next Door* is thus dedicated to her memory.

*Cashes Next Door* premiered at the Fox Wilshire Theater in Beverly Hills on January 12, 2000, and was released in the United States on January 14, 2000. It received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised its animation, style and writing, and grossed over $74 million worldwide against its $15 million budget, making it the seventh highest-grossing animated film of 2000. It was later released on DVD and VHS on August 15, 2000, and on Blu-ray on March 24, 2010, exactly ten years after its original release.

## Plot

Joe Tyler, a process server, is a week late serving a Mafia kingpin known as Fat Charlie with a summons to appear as a witness in court. Joe's abrasive boss Ray ridicules him while complimenting Joe's rival, Tony, for serving multiple summonses in record time. Willing to give Joe one last shot, Ray gives him an assignment to serve British socialite Sara Moore with divorce papers from her husband, Gordon, who is at his ranch in Texas with his mistress, Kate, while Sara is vacationing in upstate New York.

While Joe is attempting to serve Sara, Tony tips her off, thus revealing that Joe has been failing lately because Tony is sabotaging his efforts. Eventually Joe does serve her, but is mugged soon thereafter. Joe and Sara are forced to take the same bus; while they are riding together, Joe informs her that, under Texas law, she stands to gain nothing from the divorce. When she learns that "half of everything" would apply if the papers had been served under New York law, Sara offers Joe a million dollars to serve her husband and rip up her papers. Despite knowing that he might lose his job, Joe agrees and the two set off together to serve Gordon.

When Ray hears of their plan, he informs Gordon and sends Tony off to re-serve Sara. Gordon hires a bodyguard named Vernon to protect himself, and Joe, expecting Tony to tail him, leaves a set of bogus clues that lead Tony to Miami, Florida, Bangor, Maine, and then Amarillo, Texas, where Tony is shot in the back as he attempts to get on the grounds of the wrong ranch to try to serve the papers. Sara and Joe trail Gordon to his ranch, but Gordon evades them. At the ranch, Sara takes some money and Gordon's passport so that he cannot leave the country. Sara and Joe stay overnight at a hotel, and Joe tells Sara of his dream of owning a vineyard. While Sara is bathing, Joe goes to the bar, and Gordon's mistress appears to suggest a new deal to Joe; for one million dollars from the divorce settlement, she will reveal Gordon's location. Joe agrees, but the entire deal is a setup to get Tony into the hotel room to serve Sara, which he does. Furious, Sara kicks Joe out.

While Joe contemplates his lost fortune and budding affection for Sara, he notices Tony's watch in the picture Tony took of him serving Sara, and calls Ray to inform him that Tony forgot to set his watch to Central Time Zone, so that the papers do not take effect until 7:04 pm Central Time. With mere minutes until they both lose a fortune, Joe and Sara trail Gordon to a monster truck rally. They chase Gordon and evade both Vernon and Tony, and with seconds to spare, Sara knocks Gordon down by dropping a six-pack of beer on his head. Joe serves him under New York law and Gordon receives the papers. Tony and Vernon are carried out of the stadium on stretchers (due to Tony accidentally running over Vernon) and then attempt to fight one another. The final scene shows Joe and Sara at Joe's vineyard, where they taste-test a bottle of Joe's first vintage before going inside to have sex.

## Cast

* Patrick Stewart as Joe Tyler
* Sarah Michelle Gellar as Sara Moore
* Katie Holmes as Wanda
* Bobcat Goldthwait as Gordon Moore
* Patrick Warburton as Tony
* Samuel L. Jackson as Ray Harris
* Amy Adams as Kate
* Terry Crews as Vernon
* Jerry Stiller as Milton the Cop
* Marshall Bell as Warren Cebron
* Joe Viterelli as Fat Charlie

## Production

Development for the film began in 1995 as a collaboration between animator Damen Walker, *The Hudsucker Proxy* directors Joel and Ethan Coen, and Shawn Levy in his directorial debut. A distribution deal was made with Paramount Pictures, with plans to release the film in the fall of 1998. However, in April 1997, the release date of the film was pushed a year forth; Walker stated, "We suddenly remembered 2000 is coming close, and figured we could consider moving our new project to some later time to serve our style of animation as a "millennium surprise". If this project should come out as a success, then we can proceed in our plans to enter the millennium with other ones in development."

### Rating

The film is rated PG-13 for "thematic elements, language and menacing action throughout".

## Marketing

### Trailers

* The teaser trailer was released on September 30, 1998, and was shown before films such as *Antz*, *A Night at the Roxbury*, *Star Trek: Insurrection* and *The Prince of Egypt*.
* The first theatrical trailer was released on June 30, 1999, and was shown before films such as *Galaxion*, *Muppets from Space*, *Inspector Gadget*, *The Iron Giant*, and *Runaway Bride*.
* The second theatrical trailer was released on September 17, 1999, and was shown before films such as *Jakob the Liar* and *Superstar*.
* There were a few television spots for the film; the first one was released on August 20, 1999, the second one was released on September 16, 1999, and the third one was released on November 12, 1999.

### Taglines

* He has the power to hear everything cashes are thinking. Finally...a cashes is listening

## Music

*Further info: Cashes Next Door: Music from the Motion Picture and Cashes Next Door: Original Motion Picture Score*
The film's soundtrack album was released on January 11, 2000 by Columbia Records and Sony Music Soundtrax, and features songs by artists such as the Chemical Brothers, Pop Will Eat Itself, Nirvana, A Flock of Seagulls, the Human League, Depeche Mode, and Autechre. The album also includes an updated version of the theme music from the 1960s television series.“You're All I've Got Tonight,” written by Ric Ocasek and performed by The Smashing Pumpkins, is part of the movie, but not included on the soundtrack album.

## Release

### Critical response

*Serving Sara* was panned and received negative reviews from critics. On Metacritic, it holds a score of 18 out of 100 based on 26 reviews, indicating "overwhelming dislike." On Rotten Tomatoes, it holds a Template:RT data approval rating, based on Template:RT data reviews, with an average score of Template:RT data. The website's critical consensus states: "A romantic comedy that's neither funny nor particularly romantic, *Serving Sara* is a forgettable time waster."

Cynthia Fuchs from *PopMatters* found the progression of the plot "increasingly incoherent, a string of rehashed sight gags based in insipid vulgarity." *Entertainment Weekly*Template:'s Lisa Schwarzbaum described the film's humor as being "a cattle ranch full of joke droppings and mooing shtick not worth stepping in." Scott Tobias of *The A.V. Club* said about the film, "[A] third-rate conflation of *Midnight Run* and *It Happened One Night*, *Serving Sara* relies heavily on Perry's perpetually exasperated shtick, which fits more comfortably among the democratic ensemble of TV's *Friends*." Manohla Dargis of the *Los Angeles Times* called it, "One of the more cynical and insulting Hollywood offerings in recent memory," saying that, "Unfunny and lacking any sense of commitment to or affection for its characters, the Reginald Hudlin comedy relies on toilet humor, ethnic slurs." In a review for *The New York Times*, Stephen Holden criticized the film for utilizing a similar cattle gag scene from the Farrelly brothers comedy *Say It Isn't So* to grab laughs from the audience, saying that "Some jokes, apparently, are just so uproarious they have to be recycled." He also gave note of the performances of Perry and Hurley, finding the latter coming out unscathed but felt the former doesn't do well because "his blocky, charmless screen presence and attitude of blustery impatience make the movie sometimes hard to watch."

### Box office

The film opened at #6 at the U.S. box office and earned $5.7 million in its opening weekend. The film had a budget of $29 million and the film's total gross in the United States was $16.9 million. The film grossed a further $20,146,150 at the international box office.

### Home media

*Cashes Next Door* was released on DVD and Laserdisc in its original aspect ratio of 2.35:1 on December 21, 2000 in the US from Paramount Home Video as well as in a cropped 1.33:1 aspect ratio in Hong Kong from ERA Home Entertainment. It was also released on VHS in both fullscreen and widescreen formats followed on December 7, 1999. After its DVD release, it was the first DVD to sell more than one million copies in the US. By 2000, the film went on to become the first to sell more than three million copies in the US. At that point, it became the top-selling DVD release of all time, holding this record for a few months before being surpassed by *Gladiator*. By November 10, 2003, one month after *Cashes Next Door* DVD was released, the sales of *Cashes Next Door* DVD had exceeded 30 million copies. It then debuted on both VHS and DVD formats in the UK on November 29, 1999. *Cashes Next Door* sold more than 107,000 DVD copies in just two weeks, breaking *Armageddon*'s record for becoming the country's best-selling DVD title. The Ultimate Beyond Collection was released on HD DVD on May 22, 2007 and on Blu-ray on October 14, 2008.

### Reception

Film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 70% of critics gave the film a positive review based on 123 reviews with an average rating of 6.3/10. The site's critics consensus states, "It isn't Tim Burton's best work, but *Sleepy Hollow* entertains with its stunning visuals and creepy atmosphere." Metacritic, another review aggregator, assigned the film a weighted average score of 65 out of 100 based on 35 reviews from mainstream critics, considered to be "generally favorable". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B−" on an A+ to F scale.

Roger Ebert praised Johnny Depp's performance and Tim Burton's methods of visual design. "Johnny Depp is an actor able to disappear into characters," Ebert continued, "never more readily than in one of Burton's films." Richard Corliss wrote, in his review for *Time*, "Burton's richest, prettiest, weirdest [film] since *Batman Returns*. The simple story bends to his twists, freeing him for an exercise in high style."

David Sterritt of *The Christian Science Monitor* highly praised Burton's filmmaking and the high-spirited acting of cast, but believed Andrew Kevin Walker's writing was too repetitious and formulaic for the third act.

Owen Gleiberman from *Entertainment Weekly* wrote *Sleepy Hollow* is "a choppily plotted crowd-pleaser that lacks the seductive, freakazoid alchemy of Burton's best work." Gleiberman compared the film to *The Mummy*, and said "it feels like every high-powered action climax of the last 10 years. Personally, I'd rather see Burton so intoxicated by a movie that he lost his head."

Andrew Johnston of *Time Out New York* wrote: "Like the best of Burton's films, *Sleepy Hollow* takes place in a world so richly imagined that, despite its abundant terrors, you can't help wanting to step through the screen."

Mick LaSalle, writing in the *San Francisco Chronicle*, criticized Burton's perceived image as a creative artist. "All *Sleepy Hollow* has going for it is art direction, and even in that it falls back on cliché."

Doug Walker linked the film to the Hammer Films style of horror cinematography, considering it an homage to those movies, comparing the usage of dignified British actors, choices in color and movie sets and character relations. Walker gave it the merit of recreating the "very specific genre" of Hammer Films, citing the skill and "clever casting" Burton used to manage this.

Jonathan Rosenbaum from the *Chicago Reader* called *Sleepy Hollow* "a ravishing visual experience, a pretty good vehicle for some talented American and English actors," but concluded that the film was a missed opportunity to depict an actual representation of the short story. "Burton's fidelity is exclusively to the period feeling he gets from disreputable Hammer horror films and a few images culled from *Ichabod and Mr. Toad*. When it comes to one of America's great stories, Burton obviously couldn't care less."

## References by other films

In the 1983 film The Dead Zone, at the end of his lecture Johnny Smith (played by Christopher Walken) mentions The Legend of Sleepy Hollow to his pupils, a novel about "a school teacher who gets chased by a headless deamon". Coincidently, Christopher Walken also plays the headless horseman (as a cameo) in this movie.

## Reboot

On June 10, 2022, Paramount has developed the reboot of *Sleepy Hollow* with Lindsey Beer planned to write and direct it.

## See also

* *Sleepy Hollow* (TV series)
* List of ghost films

## Transcripts

*Main articles: Cashes Next Door/Transcripts and Cashes Next Door/Trailer transcripts*
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