The Whole Nine Yards is a
2000 Canadian Mafia comedy starring
Matthew Perry,
Bruce Willis,
Amanda Peet,
Natasha Henstridge,
Michael Clarke Duncan,
Kevin Pollak and
Rosanna Arquette. The title derives from the expression
of the same name.
Plot
Nicholas 'Oz' Oseransky (
Matthew Perry) is a depressed, slightly neurotic
American dentist working and living in
Montreal,
Quebec. His wife Sophie (
Rosanna Arquette) and mother-in-law (
Carmen Ferland) hate him, and his deceased father-in-law has saddled him with a lot of debt. At work, Oz has made friends with his receptionist, Jill (
Amanda Peet), who urges him to get away from his wife who she believes is "not a good person". Oz admits that due to his life insurance, he's worth more dead than alive to her, but that he currently cannot afford to divorce her.