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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. [More]

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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Though the comedy often goes flat, Peet busts loose in a terrific comic performance, while the icily beautiful Henstridge adds class.

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Cornell & Petricelli
Cornell & Petricelli
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The casting is so good it purrs.

Full Review Source: San Diego Union-Tribune | comment Comment
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David Elliott
David Elliott
San Diego Union-Tribune

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.

Full Review Source: Flint Journal | comment Comment
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David Forsmark
David Forsmark
Flint Journal

Another of those 'zany' romantic comedies starring a cheeseball star from a sitcom series.

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Desson Thomson
Desson Thomson
Washington Post
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It's Perry who keeps this movie on the up-and-up.

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Edvins Beitiks
Edvins Beitiks
San Francisco Examiner

For Matthew Perry, it offers evidence that there may be life beyond Friends after all.

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Edward Johnson-Ott
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Eric D. Snider
Eric D. Snider
EricDSnider.com

The Whole Nine Yards tackles its plot with such unapologetically cheerful gusto that you can't help but like it.

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Eugene Novikov
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Garth Franklin
Garth Franklin
Dark Horizons

Lynn does deliver an efficient and professional job that's likely to strike senses of humor right on cue.

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George Meyer
George Meyer
Orlando Weekly

The Whole Nine Yards is a ragtag affair enlivened considerably by Willis' easygoing manner.

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Glenn Lovell
Glenn Lovell
San Jose Mercury News
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There's a few cute jokes, but over all, it seems a bit fluffy.

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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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The film's stand-out performance ... is by Peet.

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Jack Garner
Jack Garner
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

The film's plot is preposterous, but quirky enough to give a first-rate cast the chance to shine.

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Jackie Loohauis
Jackie Loohauis
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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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