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The Whole Nine Yards (2000) More at IMDb Pro »

• Bruce Willis tried to contact Matthew Perry to get him to take part in the film while, unbeknownst to him, Perry was on vacation. After a few weeks of trying to get hold of him, Willis left the famous line, "I will chop off your legs, set fire to your house, and watch you drag..." on Perry's answer machine. They thought it was so funny that they included it on the film.
  
  
• When Volkswagen was approached about a product placement in the movie for its new Beetle, they said they would only pay if a male character drove the car, because there are already plenty of women who want to drive the new VW Beetles. However, it was decided that it was such a perfect car for Sophie to drive that they would use it anyway, even though Volkswagen didn't pay them.
  
  
• The three kids who run between Jimmy and Oz when they are standing next to the flower cart are Bruce Willis's three daughters, Tallulah Belle Willis, Scout LaRue Willis, and Rumer Willis.
  
  

• The movie playing in the background when Janni and Frankie go to kill Jimmy is Key Largo (1948).
  
  
• The original script called for the movie to take place in Florida instead of Montreal.
  
  
• Is the first mainstream American movie to be filmed in Montreal and take place in Montreal.
  
  
• When Matthew Perry is cutting the grass at the beginning of the movie, he's wearing a shirt with the crest of the hockey team, the Ottawa Senators. Matthew Perry spent some time growing up in Ottawa.
  
  
• The owners of the two houses that were used for this movie were paid $50,000 on the condition that they left their homes for a month.
  
  
• As a result of a bet lost on the set, Bruce Willis agreed to do a guest appearance on "Friends" (1994) for free. He was already planning to do the guest spot, but the terms of the bet led to him giving his pay for the episode to charity.
  
  
• In the sequence of flashing newspapers depicting Jimmy the Tulip, along with a Die Hard 2 (1990) promotional still is also a still from The Jackal (1997), where the character is seated at the desk, cigar in hand, ordering the machine gun over the computer.
  
  

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