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Unlikely Couple Fall in Love Teaching the Ways of the World City Life Eccentric Family Fish Out of Water Love and Romance Misfit more...
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Whatever Works, 2009

Starring: Larry David, Evan Rachel Wood

Directed by: Woody Allen

Written by: Woody Allen

Language: English

Country: USA, France

Runtime: 92 min

MPAA Rating: PG_13

Rating:7.2

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Whatever Works can be described as witty, clever, and contemplative. The plot revolves around teaching the ways of the world, city life, and an eccentric family. Its comic aspect comes from dark humor. Whatever Works's main genres are comedy, independent, and romance. In terms of style, it is postmodernist. In approach, it is not serious and realistic. Whatever Works is set, at least in part, in an urban environment. It is located in New York. It takes place in contemporary times. Whatever Works is well suited for a date night.

Summary of Whatever Works

After the failure of his career, his marriage, and his suicide attempt, world-class grouch Boris Yellnikoff, spends his days insulting the small children unfortunate enough to study chess with him and irritating his still-loyal friends with his never-ending tirades about the worthlessness of absolutely everything. A former Columbia Professor and self-proclaimed genius who came close to winning a Nobel Prize for Quantum Mechanics, Boris fancies himself the only one who fully comprehends the meaningless of all human aspirations, and the pitch-black chaos of the universe.

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Language:	English
Country:	USA, France
Release date:	22 April 2009
Runtime:	92 min

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Larry David

as Boris Yellnikoff

Evan Rachel Wood

as Melodie

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I couldn't wait for this film after seeing the trailer. And I was not disappointed. Woody Allen is back to funny and this time with an added new twist: Larry David's array of neuroses! Unlike many of Allen's past male leads, David is not meant to... Read and rate it

11.September.2010
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by: Nooshi N.
Nooshi N. rated this movie0/10

05.September.2010
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by: ColumboFan
ColumboFan rated this movie0/10

Slimey regurgitated comedy-like substance from the bowels of Woody Allen about an old genius who marries a much younger girl who was once his Asian stepdaughter named Soon-Yi Previn. Err.. sorry.. strike that. This is about a slimey old Woody Allen genius who marries a young hillbilly girl he finds on his doorstep swaddled in a bassinet, cooing.. ahh..no, wait, that's not right either. There's NO bassinet. That's just silly, so stop it. She's old enough for marriage, okay? I'm pretty sure. Let's see.. according to IMDb, Evan Rachel Wood was in the movie "Thirteen" at least 5 years ago making her..ahh, carry the one...making her over the legal age by.. mmm... by months. SEVERAL months, okay? So let's settle down, stop the insinuations - it's beneath you, really - and get on with the review: The acting is uniformily horrible, right down to the extras and unseen characters, but I'm not sure the source material they're reading COULD be acted well. In Act One the characters loudly announce their stereotypes, in Act Two they announce their abrupt life changes into totally different stereotypes, then in Act Three they announce that life's a crapshoot, the universe is an uncaring void, but the joys of the Marx Brothers makes life worth living so support your comic moviemakers. The End. Drive safely. Is this the same Woody Allen that made "Annie Hall"? It can't be the same guy, can it? Maybe I'm mixed up and it's a Woody Woodpecker picture. It's loud and annoying like a woodpecker. I'll have to check IMDb on that one. Anyway, I stuck with the whole mess because Larry David is funny in his improvisational show "Curb Your Enthusiasm". But with written lines he seems to just..what's the word?.. "exclaim" everything. It's not acting really, it's more like acting out. In any case, this movie gives off a strange vibe. The dialog is so stagey, and weird, that it seems like it must have been made that way on purpose. But why would a woodpecker do that? Terrible movie.

05.September.2010
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by: ColumboFan

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