2000 Bruce Willis Comedy The Whole Nine Yards Returns to Free Streaming

Collider reports that The Whole Nine Yards, the 2000 crime comedy starring Bruce Willis and Matthew Perry, is now available to stream for free on Tubi. The article notes the film did just fine financially during a competitive box office weekend, even as critics were less convinced.

The piece describes the movie as a time capsule of a specific era of Hollywood comedy and a hodgepodge of genres: a gangster comedy that rarely lands big laughs and a buddy movie whose chemistry reads as curious rather than combustible. Perry is said to lean into Chandler Bing–style beats as a twitchy, nervous dentist, while Willis is portrayed as operating on autopilot; the script is described as more intent on keeping the story straight than generating laughs, though the film retains an odd endearing quality. The article also calls the film a bittersweet footnote in Perry’s career following his passing in 2024.

When it hit theaters on February 18, 2000, The Whole Nine Yards beat competing releases from Friends co-stars Lisa Kudrow and Courteney Cox at the box office. The film’s runtime is listed as 98 minutes, directed by Jonathan Lynn, written by Mitchell Kapner and produced by Allan Kaufman, Andrew Stevens, David Willis and Elie Samaha. It is streaming now on Tubi.

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Culture, Bruce Willis, Matthew Perry, Tubi, Jonathan Lynn, Crime Comedy