Watch The Whole Nine Yards For Free

Strong and Moving!

Perfect cast and a good story

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

"Oz Oseransky" (Matthew Perry) is a dentist who lives in Montreal with his narcissistic wife "Sophie" (Rosanna Arquette) and his equally selfish "Mother-in-Law" (Carmen Ferland). Needless to say, his life is not very pleasant. As a matter of fact, about the only person who seems to understand what he's going through is his new assistant "Jill" (Amanda Peet) who came to work for him just three weeks ago. Then one day he notices that he has acquired a new neighbor and being a friendly person he walks over to welcome him. However, he soon realizes that his new neighbor is a notorious hit-man named "Jimmy Tudeski" (Bruce Willis) who has just been released from prison and has a contract out on his head for turning state's evidence against a powerful mafia don by the name of "Janni Gogolak" (Kevin Pollak). Naturally, being the mild-mannered person he is, Oz simply wants to mind his own business. Unfortunately, he makes the mistake of telling his wife who pressures him into going to Chicago in order to inform Janni Gogolak where Jimmy can be found in order to collect a finder's fee. Yet, even though he goes to Chicago, he remains firm in his decision not to meet or discuss anything with Janni Gogolak. This changes, however, when he is met by a cold-blooded hit-man named "Frankie Figs" (Michael Clarke Duncan) who unceremoniously convinces him to tell Janni Gogolak everything he knows. And this decision results in dangerous complications for everyone involved. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this turned out to be a decent comedy with Bruce Willis turning in a surprisingly funny performance. Likewise, having a beautiful actress like Natasha Henstridge (as Jimmy Tudeski's wife "Cynthia") didn't hurt either. In any case, I enjoyed this film for the most part and have rated it accordingly. Slightly above average.

Nick (Matthew Perry) is a struggling dentist in Canada. A new neighbor moves in, and he discovers that it is Jimmy "The Tulip" Teduski (Bruce Willis). His wife convinces him to go to Chicago and inform the mob boss who wants Jimmy dead.Bruce Willis as a hit-man? Yeah, it seems plausible given his tough guy roles. Matthew Perry as a luckless loser? Yep, makes even more sense (he definitely appeared in a series of odd romances). Together, they make a pretty good combination.While much of this is fairly predictable, it should be. This is not a deep, philosophical film about killing, but a light-hearted jaunt about contract murder and falsifying dental records. Should that be fun? Maybe not, but it is.

This movie is quite poor, in passages slow and quite unexciting and in general a quite poor actor performance, although a fair share of the cast are regarded movie stars. The plot and climax are both pretty, silly to say the least... HOWEVER all this being said it is most important for me too add that i somehow enjoy the movie. Some of the deliveries in the script are pretty funny and the whole situation built up around 'the tulip' (one of the main characters - portrayed by Willis) is very nicely depicted throughout the movie. The awkward and fearsome atmosphere is fairly well captured in the movie.The movie in general doesn't contribute with that much, and it IS pretty poor in general. But i can't help to be entertained by it.

After having seen Marisa Tomei win best supporting actress from "My cousin Vinny" (which I loved), I am surprised that Amanda Peet didn't get as many accolades for her performance as Jill in "Nine Yards".Her facial expressions, her enthusiasm, and her zeal for what she is doing portrayed in the film really caught my attention. Yes, she is a beautiful girl, but the channel I watched the movie on didn't show the completely nude scenes, anyway, so all I can judge is the character she played and not my own fantasies.The giddiness when meeting Tudeski for the first time, the arched eyebrows when asking Cynthia "you do?" when Cynthia says she loves Oz, the flip of her wrist when she summons the bank man back into his cubicle, the leg lock around Tudeski at the dock...how could anyone not like this girl? She seems so real and so happy with herself. I fell for the character she created, but I couldn't win in a fight with Tudeski for her affections.Great job, Ms. Peet. You nailed the magic on that one.