Though the comedy often goes flat, Peet busts loose in a terrific comic performance, while the icily beautiful Henstridge adds class.
The Whole Nine Yards (2000)
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Reviews Counted:93
Fresh:42
Rotten:51
Average Rating:5.2/10
Consensus: Despite a charming cast, The Whole Nine Yards could only tickle half of the critics' funny bones. The other half thought it an underwelming, depressing sitcom.
Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis:
Nicholas "Oz" Oseransky (MATTHEW PERRY) is a nice dentist living in suburban Montreal. His new next door neighbor, Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski (BRUCE WILLIS), is a hit man hiding out from a dangerous...
Nicholas "Oz" Oseransky (MATTHEW PERRY) is a nice dentist living in suburban Montreal. His new next door neighbor, Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski (BRUCE WILLIS), is a hit man hiding out from a dangerous Chicago crime family. Despite their differences, Oz and Jimmy have one thing in common: someone's trying to kill them both. For Jimmy, avoiding a couple of hired killers is child's play. But for Oz, it's a whole new ball game.
To stay alive, they're going to have to stick together - Jimmy with his cunning and cold-blooded accuracy and Oz with his dental tools.
Matthew Perry describes "The Whole Nine Yards" as a comedy in which "every single character in the movie wants to kill somebody else in the movie. Except my character, Oz."
Perry, who is known worldwide as Chandler Bing in the popular TV show "Friends," stars as Dr. Nicholas Oseransky ("Oz"), an unassuming dentist and all-around nice guy whose life has become unlivable but who has no easy way out of it. "He's kind of giving up on life," Perry says. Bruce Willis, star of the highly acclaimed summer blockbuster "The Sixth Sense," plays Jimmy "the Tulip" Tudeski, who moves in next door to Oz in a peaceful Montreal suburb. A man who has been headline news for ratting out the leader of the notorious Gogolak Gang, Jimmy is hard to kill. "Jimmy doesn't kill people who are close to him for one reason - he doesn't let anyone get close to him," says Willis. "He would have morals if they didn't interfere with his job."
Oz takes an immediate liking to his neighbor and they become friends even though he has recognized Jimmy as a hit man in hiding.
Starring: Bruce Willis, Matthew Perry, Rosanna Arquette, Michael Clarke Duncan
Starring: Bruce Willis, Matthew Perry, Rosanna Arquette, Michael Clarke Duncan, Natasha Henstridge, Amanda Peet, Kevin Pollak, Harland Williams
Director: Jonathan Lynn
Director: Jonathan Lynn
Screenwriter: Mitchell Kapner
Producer: David Willis, Allan Kaufman
Composer: Randy Edelman
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Reviews for The Whole Nine Yards
Director Jonathan Lynn cleverly combines broad slapstick, witty jabs at movie conventions, very dark humor, and wild sight gags into a lively mix that keeps the laughs coming.
Another of those 'zany' romantic comedies starring a cheeseball star from a sitcom series.
For Matthew Perry, it offers evidence that there may be life beyond Friends after all.
The Whole Nine Yards tackles its plot with such unapologetically cheerful gusto that you can't help but like it.
Lynn does deliver an efficient and professional job that's likely to strike senses of humor right on cue.
The Whole Nine Yards is a ragtag affair enlivened considerably by Willis' easygoing manner.
The film's plot is preposterous, but quirky enough to give a first-rate cast the chance to shine.
The film ends up being an incredibly guilty pleasure not only because of that fact that it is a dark comedy, but also because of the fact that the film ends up being incredibly sexy.
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