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Whatever Works (2009)

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Reviews Counted:12

Fresh:4

Rotten:8

Average Rating:3.2/10

Consensus: Based upon a script written in the 1970s, Woody Allen's Whatever Works suffers from a lack of fresh ideas.

Runtime: 1 hr 32 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: The New York-based humor of Woody Allen and CURB YOUR ENTHUSIAM’s Larry David seems like a natural match, and the pair unite for the first time in this comedy. WHATEVER WORKS follows a rich man... The New York-based humor of Woody Allen and CURB YOUR ENTHUSIAM’s Larry David seems like a natural match, and the pair unite for the first time in this comedy. WHATEVER WORKS follows a rich man (David), who decides that he should be living a different, less-status based life. Evan Rachel Wood, Patricia Clarkson, Ed Begley Jr., and Michael McKean star in this film that marks Allen’s cinematic return to New York City. [More]

Starring: Larry David, Evan Rachel Wood, Patricia Clarkson, Ed Begley

Starring: Larry David, Evan Rachel Wood, Patricia Clarkson, Ed Begley, Conleth Hill, Michael McKean, Henry Cavill, Jessica Hecht, John Gallagher, Carolyn McCormick, Christopher Evan Welch

Director: Woody Allen

Director: Woody Allen
Screenwriter: Woody Allen
Producer: Letty Aronson, Stephen Tenenbaum
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics

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10/15/09
Entertainment Weekly

An out of the closet marinating script liberated from three decades long mothballs, finds the raw unplugged, get-even with the cosmos vintage Woody shining through.

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10/12/09
Prairie Miller
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Feels like that self-conscious play in which you never forget for one moment that the lines the characters are speaking were penned by a writer, or that the situations were a product of the writer's imagination.

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10/09/09
James Plath
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June 18, 2009: Critics Consensus: Year One Fails To Beget Laughs
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May 10, 2009: Trailer Bulletin: Whatever Works Opens in new window
Larry David steps in as Woody Allen's latest on-screen surrogate in "Whatever Works," due out June 19. Watch the trailer now! More...

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