The Whole Nine Yards (2000)

Director:

Jonathan Lynn

Writer (WGA):

Mitchell Kapner (written by)

Release Date:

18 February 2000 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Crime

Tagline:

In the heart of suburbia, a hit man with heart has just moved in.

Plot:

Nick is a struggling dentist in Canada. A new neighbor moves in, and he discovers that it is Jimmy "The Tulip" Teduski. His wife convinces him to go to Chicago and inform the mob boss who wants Jimmy dead.

Plot Keywords:

Dentist | Tulip | Neighbor | Canada | Hitman

Awards:

4 nominations

Cast

Bruce Willis	...	Jimmy 'The Tulip' Tudeski
Matthew Perry	...	Nicholas 'Oz' Oseransky
Rosanna Arquette	...	Sophie Oseransky
Michael Clarke Duncan	...	Franklin 'Frankie Figs' Figueroa
Natasha Henstridge	...	Cynthia Tudeski
Amanda Peet	...	Jill St. Claire
Kevin Pollak	...	Janni Pytor Gogolak
Harland Williams	...	Special Agent Steve Hanson
Carmen Ferland	...	Sophie's Mom (as Carmen Ferlan)
Serge Christianssens	...	Mr. Boulez
Renee Madeline Le Guerrier	...	Waitress (as Renée Madelaine Le Guerrier)
Jean-Guy Bouchard	...	Mover
Howard Bilerman	...	Dave Martin
Johnny Goar	...	Hungarian Hood
Deano Clavet	...	Polish Pug
Stephanie Biddle	...	Jazz Singer
Charles Biddle Sr.	...	Bass Player (as Charles Biddle)
Geoff Lapp	...	Pianist
Gary Gold	...	Drummer
Robert Burns	...	Mr. Tourette
France Arbour	...	Mrs. Boulez
Sean Devine	...	Sergeant Buchanan
Richard Jutras	...	Officer Morrissey
Mark Camacho	...	Interrogator #1
Joanna Noyes	...	Interrogator #2
John Sanford Moore	...	Bank Manager (as John Moore)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Kent McQuaid	...	Clerk (uncredited)
Mike Tsar	...	Oyster Chef (uncredited)
Rumer Willis	...	Girl Running Between Jimmy and Oz (uncredited)

Directed by
Jonathan Lynn

Writing credits (WGA)
Mitchell Kapner		(written by)

Produced by
Don Carmody	....	co-producer
Mike Drake	....	line producer
Stephen J. Eads	....	associate producer (as Stephen Eads)
James A. Holt	....	co-producer
Allan Kaufman	....	producer
Elie Samaha	....	executive producer
Tracee Stanley	....	co-producer
Andrew Stevens	....	executive producer
David Willis	....	producer

Original Music by
Randy Edelman
Gary Gold

Cinematography by
David Franco

Film Editing by
Tom Lewis

Casting by
Nancy Nayor

Production Design by
David L. Snyder

Art Direction by
André Chamberland

Set Decoration by
Mary Lynn Deachman

Costume Design by
Edi Giguere

Makeup Department
Clair Blondel	....	key makeup artist (as Clair Van Der Elst)
Larysa Chernienko	....	assistant makeup artist
Nathalie Garon	....	hairdresser
Johanne Hansen	....	hairdresser
Catherine Lavoie	....	makeup artist
Gerald Quist	....	makeup artist: Bruce Willis
Peggy Semtob	....	hair stylist
Lorraine Craig	....	assistant makeup artist (uncredited)

Production Management
Eric Bergman	....	post-production supervisor
Stéphane Falardeau	....	unit manager
Micheline Garant	....	unit production manager
Michel Leroux	....	assistant unit manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Michelle Benoit	....	third assistant director
Stéphane Byl	....	first assistant director: second unit
Carl Roméo Desjardins	....	second assistant director
Chris Early	....	third assistant director: Niagara Falls
Myron Hoffert	....	first assistant director
Mandy Ketcheson	....	second assistant director: Niagara Falls
David L. Snyder	....	second unit director

Art Department
Caroline Alder	....	draughtsman
Carole Arpin	....	assistant props
Serge Bernard	....	construction
Alain Bouchard	....	scenic painter
Gérard Boucher	....	construction
Alain Brochu	....	construction
Michel Brochu	....	construction
Brenton Brown	....	on-set dresser
Joseane Brunelle	....	scenic painter
François Cardon	....	construction
Richard Cardon	....	construction
Jocelyn Clouàtre	....	swing gang
Philippe De Berger	....	scenic painter
Marc C. De Léry	....	property master
Silvain Dion	....	swing gang
Bruce Farrell	....	swing gang
Carrie Foster	....	art department coordinator
Luc Gagnier	....	swing gang
Spiri Katerelos	....	art department assistant
Gilles L'Heureux	....	swing gang
Christian Lafortune	....	swing gang
Eric Lafrance	....	lead carpenter
Étienne Lapointe-Proulx	....	property master
Étienne Lapointe-Proulx	....	set property master
Jean Larose	....	scenic painter
Paul Le Maire	....	swing gang
Hélene Lemieux	....	scenic painter
Amélie Leonard	....	assistant set dresser
Philippe Lord	....	assistant set dresser
Julie Montplaisir	....	art department assistant
Jean-Pierre Paquet	....	assistant art director
Tim Stadler	....	painter
Tristan Tondino	....	head scenic painter
Cindy Torreiro	....	assistant set dresser
Francis Tremblay	....	set dresser
Louis Trudeau	....	scenic painter

Sound Department
James Ashwill	....	foley mixer
Rick Canelli	....	adr recordist
Eric Chentrier	....	cable person
Don Cohen	....	production sound mixer
John T. Cucci	....	foley artist
Julie Feiner	....	adr editor
Robert Fitzgerald	....	supervising dialogue editor (as Bob Fitzgerald)
David Grimaldi	....	sound effects editor
Randall Guth	....	sound effects editor
Charles Hamilton	....	digital playback operator
Michael Hilkene	....	supervising sound editor
Thierry Hoffmann	....	boom operator (as Thierry Hoffman)
Mark Johnston	....	digital playback operator (as Mark S. Johnston)
Linda Lew	....	foley recordist
Gail K. Markley	....	assistant to sound supervisor
Christian P. Minkler	....	sound re-recording mixer
Dan O'Connell	....	foley artist
Thomas J. O'Connell	....	adr mixer
Douglas Parker	....	sound effects editor
Bryan Pennington	....	stereo sound consultant: Dolby Stereo
Eric Pinckert	....	apprentice sound editor
Ken S. Polk	....	sound re-recording mixer
Pernell L. Salinas	....	first assistant sound editor
Christopher T. Welch	....	foley editor (as C.T. Welch)

Special Effects by
Ryal Cosgrove	....	special effects coordinator

Stunts
Mitchell Dean	....	stunt performer
Minor Mustain	....	stunt coordinator
Alvin Powell	....	stunts

Camera and Electrical Department
Kelly Baylis	....	grip
Robert B. Baylis	....	key grip (as Bob Baylis)
Michel Bernier	....	first assistant camera
Guy Bissonette	....	key grip: second unit
Yvan Brunet	....	focus puller: second camera
Carlo Campana	....	key grip: Niagara Falls
Christian Caperaa	....	camera loader
Steve Couto	....	grip: Niagara Falls
Carolyn Cox	....	focus puller: Niagara Falls
Pierre Dury	....	still photographer
Mathieu Décary	....	focus puller: second camera
Pierre Fournier	....	second assistant camera
Robert Guertin	....	director of photography: second unit
Robert Guertin	....	second camera operator
John Harris	....	electrician
Olivier Henley	....	camera trainee
Serge Hughes	....	clapper loader: second unit
Pierric Jouvante	....	electrician
Maarten Kroonenburg	....	focus puller: second unit
Sylvain Labrecque	....	best boy grip
Eric Lefèbvre	....	electrician
Alain Masse	....	dolly grip
Edward Mikolic	....	gaffer: Niagara Falls
Claude Pothier	....	best boy: second unit
Mathieu Price	....	grip
Louis Rivard	....	grip
Peter Stranks	....	still photographer
John Trapman	....	camera operator: Wescam camera
Normand Viau	....	gaffer (as Norman Viau)
Paul Viau	....	best boy electric
Pierre Vinet	....	still photographer

Casting Department
Sheryl Bettencourt	....	casting assistant
Sandy Holt	....	adr voice casting
Jennifer Ricchiazzi	....	casting assistant
Linda Rona	....	extras casting
Nadia Rona	....	casting: Canada

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Richard Brunet	....	dresser
Avery Gibbard	....	assistant costume designer
Marie-Hélène Ménard	....	dresser
Madeleine Perras	....	key dresser
Art Reasonover	....	wardrobe master
Frederique Sarrazin	....	dresser

Editorial Department
Karina Baccanale	....	assistant editor (as Carina Baccanale)
Christopher S. Baird	....	assistant editor (as Chris Baird)
Kenny Becker	....	color timer
Jacqueline Carmody	....	assistant editor
Jeff Etcher	....	assistant editor
Vince Filippone	....	assistant editor: avid
Mo Henry	....	negative cutter
Lorraine Samuel	....	assistant editor
Paul M. Wagner	....	first assistant editor

Music Department
Elton Ahi	....	score mixer
Elton Ahi	....	score recordist
Spring Aspers	....	music supervisor
Bronwen Boyan	....	music coordinator
Gary Gold	....	music consultant
Gary Gold	....	music coordinator
E. Gedney Webb	....	music editor

Transportation Department
Eric Brais	....	picture vehicle assistant
Aleck Duncan	....	driver: cast
Réal Hamel	....	picture car coordinator
Neil Montgomerie	....	transportation coordinator
James Sanchez	....	head driver
Joe Sanchez	....	transportation coordinator (as Joseph Sanchez)
Jerome Wheeler	....	driver production assistant

Other crew
Gregory Abel	....	production assistant
Christine Anthony	....	location scout
Olivier Barzic	....	production assistant
Marie Beaulieu	....	script supervisor
Christian Bergeron	....	production assistant
Robert Biddle	....	security officer
Josef Brandmaier	....	slate financed by
Martin Brisebois	....	stand-in: Matthew Perry
Pierre Brunet	....	location manager
Karine Chagnon	....	stand-in
Leslie Chase	....	assistant: Mr. Lynn
Pierre Cheminat	....	office runner
Jana Conley	....	assistant to producers
Lisa Convery	....	production assistant
Jean-Marc De Virieux	....	production assistant
Paul Dupont	....	safety coordinator
Frank J. Ellison	....	production accountant (as Frank Ellison)
Pamela Godfrey	....	publicist
Marci Graber	....	post-production accountant
Sofie Handfield	....	production coordinator
Amanda Hayward	....	assistant: Mr. Carmody
Raymond Hyatt	....	stand-in
Nancy Klein	....	assistant accountant
Marc Kunis	....	production controller
Isabelle Laisné	....	stand-in
Dominique Leroutier	....	location assistant
Marie-France Long	....	production secretary
Jean Marchand	....	set medic
Martin Michaud	....	production assistant
Tyler Mitchell	....	assistant: Mr. Lynn
Martin Monette	....	production assistant
Gilles Montreuil	....	assistant accountant
Sylvie Normandin	....	assistant: Mr. Lynn
Massimo Nouhra	....	production financing
Michèle-Barbara Pelletier	....	production assistant
Louis-Martin Pepperall	....	assistant: Mr. Perry
Marie Quesnel	....	production coordinator
Cindy Roth	....	assistant: Ms. Rona
Sherri Rufh	....	production secretary
Benjamin Sales	....	production assistant
Lise Servant	....	payroll accountant
Eric T. Snyder	....	location manager (as Erik Snyder)
Ian Watermeier	....	finance coordinator
Jean-François Éthier	....	production assistant

Production Companies

• Franchise Pictures
• Lansdown Films
• Morgan Creek Productions
• Nine Yards Productions
• Rational Packaging Company

Distributors

• Warner Bros (2000) (USA) (theatrical)
• United King Films (Israel)
• Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) (2003) (USA) (TV) (broadcast premiere)
• 20th Century Fox Netherlands (2000) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Sherlock Media S.L. (2000) (Spain) (theatrical)
• United International Pictures (UIP) (2000) (Finland) (theatrical)
• United International Pictures (UIP) (2000) (Sweden) (theatrical)
• Warner Bros. Entertainment (2000) (Canada) (theatrical)
• 20th Century Fox (Far East)
• 20th Century Fox of Germany (Germany)
• Argentina Video Home (Argentina) (video)
• Avsar Film (2000) (Turkey) (all media)
• Cinematografica Distributori Indipendenti (CDI)
• Distribution Company (Argentina)
• Eagle Films (2000) (non-USA) (all media) (Middle East)
• Manga Films (2000) (Spain) (all media)
• New Films International
• Odeon (Greece)
• Replay Home Entertainment (2000) (Sweden) (DVD)
• SBS6 (2003) (Netherlands) (TV) (first national airing)
• Scanbox Entertainment (2004) (Finland) (DVD)
• Scanbox Entertainment (2004) (Finland) (VHS)
• Scanbox Entertainment (2001) (Sweden) (DVD)
• SubTV (2007) (Finland) (TV)
• Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (2001) (Netherlands) (DVD) (VHS)
• UGC-Fox Distribution (UFD) (France)
• Warner Bros.

Special Effects

• Cineffects Productions
• Digiscope (digital effects)
• Pacific Title/Mirage (digital effects)
• Texa FX Group (special effects makeup)

Other Companies

• Amsale  wedding dress by
• Bayerische HypoVereinsbank AG München  film banking [de]
• Call Time  security: Niagra Falls unit
• Cold Blue Rentals  weapons supplied by
• Dimension Sound  sound editing
• Elite Casting  casting: Canada
• Film Finances  completion guarantor
• Flashpoint Studios  production assistance
• Le Groupe Eclipse  electric equipment provided by
• Locations Michel Trudel  camera and grip equipment provided by
• LoopEase  loop group
• One Step Up  foley recorded at
• Pacific Title/Mirage  titles and opticals
• Safeguard Investigation and Security Services  security: Bruce Willis
• Varèse Sarabande  soundtrack published by
• Warner Bros. Studios  re-recorded at

Also Known As:

Runtime:

98 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | French | Spanish

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Chile:14 | Colombia:12 | Finland:K-14 | France:U | Germany:16 (w) | Hong Kong:IIB | New Zealand:M | Norway:15 | Singapore:NC-16 | Spain:13 | Sweden:11 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | UK:15 | USA:R | Philippines:PG-13 | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | Canada:14A (Alberta/British Columbia) | Canada:AA (Ontario) | Canada:PA (Manitoba) | Iceland:12 | South Korea:18 | Netherlands:16 (video rating) | Netherlands:6 (re-rating)

Filming Locations:

297 Rue Marcel-Giguère, Blainville, Québec, Canada

Company:

Franchise Pictures

Trivia:

When Matthew Perry is cutting the grass at the beginning of the movie, he's wearing a shirt with the crest of the hockey team, the Ottawa Senators. Matthew Perry spent some time growing up in Ottawa.

Goofs:

Continuity: In the scenes on the boat, it is bright and sunny on Jimmy's close-ups and gray and overcast on Oz's close-ups.

Quotes:

Cynthia:But he knows I don't want to be married to him anymore, and like I said, he doesn't believe in divorce.
Oz:But murder he's okay with.?
Cynthia:It's what he does.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Dinner for Five: Episode #1.4" (2002)

Soundtrack:

Moanin'

"The Odd Couple" with a body count

THE WHOLE NINE YARDS (2000) ** Matthew Perry, Bruce Willis, Natasha Henstridge, Amanda Peet, Michael Clarke Duncan, Rosanna Arquette, Kevin Pollak, Harlan Williams.

Matthew Perry is one of my favorite comedic actors in that he's kind of a throwback to the light comedy fare of Jack Lemmon and Tom Hanks: handsome, charming and an utter neurotic mess with a sharp self-deprecating wit with his nonchalant sarcastic jibing that is all play and totally harmless, with a twist of slapstick. Here all of that is on display with a finely tuned tailor made character not unlike his tv alter ego, Chandler Bing (love that name!) from `Friends'.

Oz Oseransky is a mild-mannered affable dentist whose life is in flux when his trampy French accented wife Sophie (Arquette in full blown voluptuosness) decides she wants to end their marriage. But not by the usual traditional method of divorce or anulment; instead she takes out a contract on his life Enter newly arrived next-door-neighbor Jimmy `The Tulip' Tudeski (Willis in barely restrained comic form) a hitman keeping it low since there's a contract on him by a really ticked off Russian thug (Pollak oozing Eurotrash unctuousness). But when Oz's wife approaches him he is hard-pressed to do what comes natural since Oz turns out to be the good neighbor he never had and an unlikely ally as things progress in the plotline that eventually involves Jimmy's estranged, va-va-va voom wife Cynthia (Henstridge, best known as the sexy alien in the `Species' sci-fi flicks) who wants a divorce but knows that it's more likely a hit would be necessary.

Meanwhile Oz is struck by love at first sight when he meets Mrs. Jimmy and winds up bedding her (in spite of the fact he knows who Jimmy is after some hilarious reaction shots as the story moves on with each new trickle of information on his new `friend'), which only complicates things when Jimmy announces he is going to `whack' her and Janni, the mad Russian.

Perry is a marvelous reactionary actor and plays very well off a unique ensemble including the babelicious Peet as Jill, his receptionist- turned - assassin - wannabe , who has a knack for displaying her natural assets to dissuade any potential violent threat and Duncan (recently nominated for a Best Supporting Actor as the gentle giant in `The Green Mile') has a sweet low-key turn as the hulking pal of Willis who provides some funny sight gags (including his first meeting with Perry who literally bounces off this wall of a man).

Yet no matter how game the cast is - including off the wall comic Harland Williams as another seedy character who doesn't appear to be who he claims to be - and the fast pace of the storyline, there aren't that many memorable lines of dialogue or full grasp that a lethal killer like Jimmy actually has a heart of gold for the likes of a schnook like Oz.

It would be easy to blame the less than compelling story line on screenwriter Mitchell Kapner (who gives an original spin on a plot twist and complex scenario involving dental records and a corpse) or director Jonathan Lynn (`My Cousin Vinny'), but both make the best overall. It just isn't a fresh idea (think of `The In-Laws' which set the high water mark for odd couple/fish-out-of-water hybrid with a criminal element) that seems to hook the attention of a much needed audience. But it is divertingly fun just to see Perry slamming himself silly like a pinball.