No half things
| Movie | |
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| German title | No half things |
| Original title | The Whole Nine Yards |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2000 |
| length | Cinema: 99 minutes DVD: 95 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 16 JMK 14 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jonathan Lynn |
| script | Mitchell Kapner |
| production | Elie Samaha |
| music | Randy Edelman |
| camera | David Franco |
| cut | Tom Lewis |
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No half measures (Original title: The Whole Nine Yards ) is an American crime comedy from 2000 directed by Jonathan Lynn with Bruce Willis , Matthew Perry and Rosanna Arquette in the lead roles.
action
Dentist Nicholas "Oz" Oseransky, who lives in a suburb of Montreal, is hated by his wife Sophie and his mother-in-law, and his father-in-law has left him with a mountain of debt. His only friend is his receptionist Jill, who advises him to leave his wife.
One day he gets a new neighbor and finds out that he is the mafia hit man Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski. Tudeski seeks protection in the anonymity of the suburbs after testifying against the powerful Gogolak family, part of the Chicago mafia. The two become friends, but Oz's wife urges him to go to Chicago and reveal Tudeski's whereabouts to Janni Gogolak. With the reward they could pay their debts.
In Chicago, however, Oz decides not to betray his neighbors. However, he is expected in his hotel room by the hit man Franklin "Frankie Figs" Figueroa, who brings him to Janni Gogolak. There he meets Tudeski's wife, Cynthia. Meanwhile, Oz's wife reveals her husband's plan to Tudeski to get him to kill him and get his life insurance.
Tudeski and Jill, who turns out to be a prospective hit man and admires Tudeski, can finally kill Gogolak and his henchmen. Oz uses his knowledge as a dentist and fakes Tudeski's death by exchanging teeth on a corpse. He chooses Oz and kills Frankie Figs. Oz and Cynthia get married.
Cast and dubbing
The German-language dubbing of the film was done by Film- & Fernseh-Synchron GmbH . The author of the dialogue book and dialogue director was Lutz Riedel .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| James Stefan Tudeski called Jimmy the Tulip, hit man | Bruce Willis | Manfred Lehmann |
| Nicholas Oseransky called Oz, dentist | Matthew Perry | Uwe Büschken |
| Sophie Oseransky, wife of Oz | Rosanna Arquette | Marina Krogull |
| Franklin Figueroa called Frankie Figs, Gogolak's assistant | Michael Clarke Duncan | Tilo Schmitz |
| Cynthia Tudeski, wife of Jimmy | Natasha Henstridge | Claudia Lehmann |
| Jill St. Claire, Oz employee and Jimmy fan | Amanda Peet | Andrea Solter |
| Janni Pytor Gogolak, Chicago mafia boss | Kevin Pollak | Hans-Jürgen Wolf |
| Steve Hanson, undercover cop | Harland Williams | Tobias Master |
| Mother of Sophie Oseransky | Carmen Ferland | Marianne Lutz |
| Dave Martin, Chicago friend of Oz | Howard Bilerman | Viktor Neumann |
| Sergeant Buchanan | Sean Devine | Hans Hohlbein |
| Officer Morrissey | Richard Jutras | Eberhard Prüter |
| Bank advisor | John Sanford Moore | Tom Vogt |
background
- The cost of producing the film was $ 41.3 million and grossed $ 106 million at box office worldwide.
- In the scene when Jimmy is recognized by Nicholas and this newspaper article shoots through the head, pictures of Bruce Willis from Die Hard 2 and The Jackal can be seen.
- During the first scene after Nicholas arrived in Chicago, the instrumental piece Tenth Avenue Tango can be heard, which Bruce Willis had released on his 1989 album If It Don't Kill You, It Just Makes You Stronger .
- In 2004 a continuation of the film followed under the title No half things 2 - now even more! .
Reviews
"Routinely staged, but carelessly devised attempt that combines uninspired and soulless elements from comedy, romance and gangster film."
“Despite his graceful bow to the Humphrey Bogart classic Key Largo ( Key Largo is on TV in the background during a shootout ) - No Half Measures has not captured the criminal" logic of kindness "convincingly. [..] In any case, no half measures should have been better made two films - one about a bloodbath among gangsters and one about the antics of a dentist. "
“It all sounds pretty confused. It is. But comedy expert Jonathan Lynn keeps track of the general chaos. And so the course of action takes new, absurd twists and turns, until you either completely succumb to the charm of the over-the-top killer slapstick or - as a warning to all slapstick haters - leave the cinema prematurely unnerved. The trigger-happy, which is provocatively incidentally celebrating no half measures, is countered by director Lynn with bizarre, sometimes kitschy-romantic entanglements. "
Awards
The film was nominated for two Blockbuster Entertainment Awards in 2001.
The German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating “valuable”.
Web links
- No half measures in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- No half measures at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- No half measures at Metacritic (English)
- No half measures in the online film database
- No half measures in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for no half measures . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2007 (PDF; test number: 84 566-a DVD).
- ↑ Age rating for no half measures . Youth Media Commission .
- ^ German dubbing files - Film - No halves. In: synchronkartei.de . Retrieved July 30, 2019 .
- ↑ box office results. In: Box Office Mojo . Retrieved January 25, 2020 .
- ↑ No half measures in the lexicon of international film
- ↑ Killer at the dentist ( Memento from December 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ).
- ↑ Arms and Root Canal Treatment. In: Spiegel Online . April 17, 2000, accessed January 25, 2020 .
- ↑ No half measures on fbw-filmbassy.com