The Whole Nine Yards

Hollywood high concept comedies are more likely to succeed if their high concepts aren’t taken seriously. One of the people to be guided by this principle was Jonathan Lynn, British television director who had became famous for his political satire *Yes. Minister* in 1980s only to successfully transfer to Hollywood and deliver series of relatively successful comedies in 1990s. One such success was 2000 film *The Who…

"Oz" Oseransky (Matthew Perry) is a dentist whos former partner (also his father-in-law), before dying, embezzled large sums of money. Now Oz, with his wife Sophie (Rosanna Arquette) and his mother-in-law (Carmen Ferlan) are living in misery with large amounts of debt. Owing to a loose-tongued plea-bargain, Jimmy 'The Tulip' Tudesky (Bruce Willis) is a 17-times-veteran contract killer fresh out of prison. But Jimmy…