Storyline
Whatever Works explores the relationship between a crotchety misanthrope, Boris and a naïve, impressionable young runaway from the south, Melody. When Melody's uptight parents arrive in New York to rescue her, they are quickly drawn into wildly unexpected romantic entanglements. Everyone discovers that finding love is just a combination of lucky chance and appreciating the value of "whatever works."
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Cast
Jessica Hecht, Ed Begley Jr., Patricia Clarkson, Evan Rachel Wood, Samantha Bee, Larry David, Adam Brooks, Michael McKean, Lyle Kanouse, Carolyn McCormick, John Gallagher Jr., Conleth Hill, Nicole Patrick, Henry Cavill, Olek Krupa, Christopher Evan Welch, Kristen Ruhlin, Yolonda Ross, Willa Cuthrell-Tuttleman, Julie Basem
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Reviews
67
Though Clarkson acquits herself reasonably well in a terribly conceived role, her entrance interrupts David’s hilariously twisted mentorship of Wood and sends the movie careening in a far less promising direction.
63
Rolling Stone
Whatever Works feels like something out of time and, worse, out of step. Hell, Allen wrote the script back in the 1970s for Zero Mostel.
60
Features enough genuine laughs to give it decent commercial traction.
60
There was always a dreaminess in his vision of the city, but now it feels as distant as the polished floors and the Deco furnishings of the Fred Astaire movies that Boris finds--of course--whenever he turns on the TV.
50
It's hard to get past the primitiveness of Allen’s fantasies.
