The
Whole Ten Yards (2004)
aka: The Whole Nine Yards
2
crime comedy
directed
by : Howard Deutch
featuring
: Bruce Willis - Matthew Perry - Amanda Peet - Kevin Pollak - Natasha Nenstridge
running
time : 1 hour 39 minutes
Bruce Willis and Matthew
Perry reprise their roles as a killer for hire and a dentist with a bad
case of nerves in this sequel to the comedy hit The Whole Nine Yards. Former
hitman Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski (Willis) has retired from his life of
crime and is living a quiet life of cooking and housekeeping in Mexico,
despite the fact his wife, Jill (Amanda Peet), a would-be hired killer,
still wants to keep her hand in the business. Tudeski has been able to
convince the authorities he's dead thanks to dental records falsified by
his former neighbor Nicholas "Oz" Oseransky (Perry), who lives in Los Angeles.
But Oseransky discovers that not everyone is fooled by Tudeski's handiwork
when his wife, Cynthia (Natasha Henstridge), is kidnapped by Lazlo Gogolak
(Kevin Pollak) and his goons. Gogolak is a high-ranking member of the Hungarian
mafia, and Tudeski previously murdered his son, so he's abducted Cynthia
in order to get Oseransky to reveal the hired killer's current whereabouts.
But Tudeski has come to like the quiet life, and isn't so sure he wants
to face Gogolak and his crew for the sake of a jittery dentist who once
did him a favor. Most of the principle cast of The Whole Nine Yards returned
for this sequel, though director Howard Deutch stepped in to replace Jonathan
Lynn, who was working on The Fighting Temptations when The Whole Ten Yards
went into production.