{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2026}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox film | name = Life Without Dick | image = LifeWithoutDick.jpg | caption = DVD cover | director = Bix Skahill | producer = {{ubl|Emily Stevens|Happy Walters|Matthew Weaver}} | writer = Bix Skahill | narrator = | starring = {{ubl|Sarah Jessica Parker|Harry Connick, Jr.|Johnny Knoxville}} | music = David Nessim Lawrence | cinematography = James Glennon | editing = Peter Fandetti | distributor = Sony Pictures Video | released = {{Film date|2002|02|05}} | runtime = 96 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = }} '''''Life Without Dick''''' is a direct-to-video 2002 American black comedy film written and directed by Bix Skahill. The film focuses on the relationship that develops between an incompetent hitman and a woman who accidentally kills her boyfriend when she discovers he's leaving her for another woman.
==Plot== Colleen Gibson doesn't realize live-in boyfriend Dick Rasmusson, a third-rate private detective, has been cheating on her until phony psychic Madame Hugonaut inadvertently provides accurate details about his most recent indiscretion. When Colleen confronts him with what she believes is an empty gun, she shoots and kills Dick, who had loaded the firearm without her knowledge.
Enter Daniel Gallagher, an Irish mobster whose desire to be a crooner was dampened by his ex-girlfriend Mary when she laughed at his singing. Daniel has managed not to kill anyone in his short career as a hit man, so when he discovers Colleen has killed Dick, who was next on his hit list, he's happy to take the credit and tell his boss and brother-in-law Jared O'Reilly that he finally completed an assignment. Unfortunately, Jared starts giving him a lot more assignments, and Daniel enlists Colleen to do his dirty work for him.
Complicating matters are Daniel's sister Ivy, who would like to see her husband dead; two bumbling detectives investigating Dick's murder; and the reappearance of Mary and her new boyfriend, mumbling Tony Moretti.
==Cast== * Sarah Jessica Parker as Colleen Gibson * Harry Connick, Jr. as Daniel Gallagher * Johnny Knoxville as Dick Rasmusson * Craig Ferguson as Jared O'Reilly * Teri Garr as Madame Hugonaut * Brigid Brannagh as Ivy Gallagher O'Reilly * Claudia Schiffer as Mary * Erik Palladino as Tony "The Turner" Moretti * Michael Hitchcock as Religious Guy
==Production== In September 2000, it was announced Columbia Pictures had made a deal with Bix Skahill to write and make his directorial debut with ''Life Without Dick'' with Sarah Jessica Parker in negotiations to star.<ref name="LifeWithoutDickVar">{{cite news|url=https://variety.com/2000/film/news/col-picks-dick-talks-to-parker-1117787036/|title= Col picks 'Dick,' talks to Parker |publisher=Variety|access-date=November 16, 2023}}</ref> Early in development Craig Ferguson and Elijah Wood were considered for roles in the film.<ref name=" LifeWithoutDickVar" /> In November, Harry Connick Jr. entered negotiations to be the co-lead.<ref name="LifeWithoutDickHarry">{{cite news|url=https://variety.com/2000/film/news/connick-trills-with-life-sentence-1117789126/|title= Connick trills with 'Life' sentence |publisher=Variety|access-date=November 16, 2023}}</ref>
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==External links== *{{IMDb title|id=0262571|title=Life Without Dick}} *{{Rotten Tomatoes | id= m/life_without_dick | title= Life Without Dick}}
Category:2002 direct-to-video films Category:2002 films Category:2002 black comedy films Category:2002 crime comedy films Category:American black comedy films Category:American crime comedy films Category:2002 directorial debut films Category:Films about contract killing in the United States Category:2002 English-language films Category:2002 American films Category:English-language black comedy films Category:English-language crime comedy films
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