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Whatever Works

  • 2009
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  • 1h 33min
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Larry David in Whatever Works (2009)
An eccentric older man (David) encounters a Southern belle (Wood) and promptly falls in love. But how will the couple, her family, and his New York City friends mix?
Lire trailer2:18
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Quirky ComedyRomantic ComedyComedyRomance

Une divorcée misanthropique, d'âge mûr et originaire de New York, entame une relation pygmalionienne aussi étonnante qu'épanouissante avec une fille du Sud peu sophistiquée, beaucoup plus je... Tout lireUne divorcée misanthropique, d'âge mûr et originaire de New York, entame une relation pygmalionienne aussi étonnante qu'épanouissante avec une fille du Sud peu sophistiquée, beaucoup plus jeune qu'elle.Une divorcée misanthropique, d'âge mûr et originaire de New York, entame une relation pygmalionienne aussi étonnante qu'épanouissante avec une fille du Sud peu sophistiquée, beaucoup plus jeune qu'elle.

  • Réalisation
    • Woody Allen
  • Scénario
    • Woody Allen
  • Casting principal
    • Evan Rachel Wood
    • Larry David
    • Henry Cavill
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  • NOTE IMDb
    7,1/10
    78 k
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    • Réalisation
      • Woody Allen
    • Scénario
      • Woody Allen
    • Casting principal
      • Evan Rachel Wood
      • Larry David
      • Henry Cavill
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    • Récompenses
      • 2 victoires et 1 nomination au total

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    Whatever Works: That Idiot Is Your Son? (French Subtitled)
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    Whatever Works: That Idiot Is Your Son? (French Subtitled)

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    Evan Rachel Wood
    Evan Rachel Wood
    • Melody Celestine
    Larry David
    Larry David
    • Boris
    Henry Cavill
    Henry Cavill
    • Randy
    Adam Brooks
    Adam Brooks
    • Boris' Friend
    Lyle Kanouse
    Lyle Kanouse
    • Boris' Friend
    Michael McKean
    Michael McKean
    • Boris' Friend
    Clifford Lee Dickson
    • Boy on Street
    Yolonda Ross
    Yolonda Ross
    • Boy's Mother
    Carolyn McCormick
    Carolyn McCormick
    • Jessica
    Samantha Bee
    Samantha Bee
    • Chess Mother
    Conleth Hill
    Conleth Hill
    • Brockman
    Marcia DeBonis
    Marcia DeBonis
    • Lady at Chinese Restaurant
    John Gallagher Jr.
    John Gallagher Jr.
    • Perry
    Willa Cuthrell-Tuttleman
    Willa Cuthrell-Tuttleman
    • Chess Girl
    • (as Willa Cuthrell Tuttleman)
    Nicole Patrick
    Nicole Patrick
    • Perry's Friend
    Patricia Clarkson
    Patricia Clarkson
    • Marietta
    Olek Krupa
    Olek Krupa
    • Morgenstern
    Ed Begley Jr.
    Ed Begley Jr.
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      • Woody Allen
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      • Woody Allen
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    10carped

    Woody has done it again

    The critics have missed on this one. Don't believe the negative reviews. It's the funniest one from Woody since maybe Deconstructing Harry. Everything works. From the very original script, combining Allen's bleak view of life with effervescent farcical plot line, to uniformly fine performances from Larry David, Evan Rachel Wood, Patricia Clarkson, and the rest of the cast. Comedic sparks fly non-stop. Not just light chuckles here and there at Woody's witticisms, but loud all-out laughter. The scenes with Ed Begley's and Patricia Clarkson's transformations of 'classic text-book right-wing material' are especially hilarious. And in the end I came out from the theater, thinking that in a paradoxical way it was one of the most life-affirming pictures from the master.
    tonytu-1

    Another really good one from Woody

    Well, my first review for the IMDb. I picked one that I thought I was not going to like, but I like Woody Allen, so I gave it a shot.

    I thought I would not like Whatever Works, because I read and heard some of the critics' negative reviews.

    So, the first ten to fifteen minutes or so into the movie, I'm thinking that Larry David is better at improvising, as on his own show, than doing someone else's lines, albeit Woody Allen's.

    But then, as usually is the case with Mr. Allen;s movies, I got hooked half way through. I got hooked because it was very well done. The story, the direction, the acting - yes, Larry David was perfect for this. It was a risky casting move on Mr. Allen's part, but it worked beautifully.

    I like it also because Mr. Allen interjects philosophy in all of his movies. He courageously exposes himself, allows us to hear his thoughts and does these things by seducing us with entertainment.

    Excellent work.

    The only thing I wasn't crazy about was the sort of "tying up" philosophy about how we should go with whatever works. Such a happy ending. Why?

    That said, id didn't interfere with my overall appreciation of the movie.
    JohnDeSando

    It works for me.

    "Sometimes a cliché is finally the best way to make one's point." Boris (Larry David)

    Woody Allen's witty movies may seem clichéd (love does indeed conquer all in most of his romcoms), but they do make a humanistic point couched in Allen's pessimism and nerdiness. With Larry David playing another Allen alter ego, Boris, a self-proclaimed genius, this misanthrope in Whatever Works is the best characterization of Allen in his recent movies. The movie works for me as the smartest, most enjoyable of this summer with a message countering Allen and his alter ego's world-weariness.

    It doesn't take long to look at David's work co-creating Seinfeld and starring in his own Curb Your Enthusiasm to see that this world-weary worry wart is a good choice to play an Allen-like New York Jewish intellectual. Unfortunately his lack of real acting talent is a hindrance, especially when he slips into shouting many of his lines. Yet when David plays himself more than the stuttering Allen, he becomes relaxed and believable. When David speaks to the audience several times, the sincerity is powerful.

    Allen wanted Zero Mostel to play this part; his death in 1977 put the script in mothballs for decades. As an accomplished Broadway and film actor, Mostel underscores David's limited acting range.

    The conceit of Whatever Works is that older Boris in his 60's hooks up with twenty-year-old Southern Melodie (Evan Rachel Wood) despite his genius mind rejecting the whole affair as trite but his heart going with "whatever works." Throughout, Allen juxtaposes the Southern innocence with Northern experience creating a situation where NYC actually transforms the Southerners into urban sybarites, no better exemplified than the transformation of Melodie's mom (Patricia Clarkson) from bible thumper to artist humper with avant garde photos and multiple lovers. Even her ex-husband, John (Ed Begley, Jr.), has a NYC epiphany of the sexual kind.

    Although Allen has his characters looking for love with results that will remind you of his Everyone Says I Love You, the sweetness is replaced with a philosophy that encourages searching out whatever works because of the transitory nature of love and life.

    The mixture of love and cynicism allows deep appreciation of irony and the transformative nature of experience.
    9boydens

    See this movie and then read the external reviews

    I saw this movie in a packed cinema and the audience loved it to the extent that many applauded at the end. So I came home, looked it up in IMDb and read some of the review by professional film critics. What I found helps to explain why nobody reads papers anymore and why professional movie reviews are increasingly irrelevant. The critics drooled all over themselves for No Country for Old Man -- a ridiculous blood bath where the bad guy can see through walls, magically find people on the run, and kill repeatedly without raising much more that a mild interest from the local and state police. Yet many of these same critics think the characters in this new Woody Allen film aren't realistic. God save the film critics.

    Back to the film. I can't remember the last time I laughed this hard at the movies, and I wasn't alone. It takes special talent to direct a movie that is so dependent on perfect comic timing to work, and the actors in this film hit their marks consistently. If there is character in this movie that shouldn't be the subject of study in an abnormal psychology class, I missed them.

    If you care about intelligent movies for grown-ups, then you need to support movies like this one.
    8grantss

    Woody Allen back to what he does best

    Woody Allen is back to doing what he is famous for - clever introspective comedy - and he still does it well. He detoured into making crime-dramas, three of them - Matchpoint, Scoop and Cassandra's Dream. All of these were good, and one, Matchpoint, was brilliant. Then he made a pretentious drama, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, which wasn't good (but people seemed to like it just the same).

    Whatever Works sees him back to comedy, and back to his beloved New York (the previous four were all set in Europe). With the setting comes the standard Woody Allen neuroses, paranoia, depression and general philosophical musings that have been a hallmark of his films. The surprise is, for once he doesn't play the neurotic, paranoid, depressed lead character. No, this time Woody Allen stays behind the camera, and Larry David, of Curb Your Enthusiasm fame, takes the part.

    Larry David does a great job in the role. He was born to play the curmudgeon, and play the curmudgeon he does, to the limit. It can wear a bit thin at times, but mostly he is screamingly funny.

    Supporting cast are great too. Evan Rachel Wood is convincing as the dumb innocent Southern belle, and Ed Begley jr and Patricia Clarkson are solid as her parents.

    Plot is good. Maybe a bit underdeveloped - some things happen too quickly and some characters seem too flexible - and some things seem a bit trite, but it works in the end. The dialogue, however, is great. Almost as good as Allen in his heyday of the late-70s and 80s. Biting, caustic, clever.

    A very funny movie.

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    • Anecdotes
      Woody Allen claims that he cast Larry David because David is one of the few comedians that makes him laugh.
    • Gaffes
      Henry Cavill plays the character Randy, a British actor. No Brit would ever be called Randy because in the UK the word randy is the equivalent of horny in US English.
    • Citations

      Boris Yellnikoff: That's why I can't say enough times, whatever love you can get and give, whatever happiness you can filch or provide, every temporary measure of grace, whatever works.

    • Connexions
      Featured in The 81st Annual Academy Awards (2009)
    • Bandes originales
      Hello I Must Be Going
      From the Original Soundtrack L'explorateur en folie (1930)

      Written by Bert Kalmar (as Bert Kalmer) & Harry Ruby

      Performed by Groucho Marx and Cast

      Courtesy of Universal Studios

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    Détails

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    • Date de sortie
      • 1 juillet 2009 (France)
    • Pays d’origine
      • États-Unis
      • France
    • Sites officiels
      • Mars Distribution (France)
      • Sony Pictures Classics (United States)
    • Langue
      • Anglais
    • Aussi connu sous le nom de
      • Untitled Woody Allen Project
    • Lieux de tournage
      • East Village, Manhattan, Ville de New York, New York, États-Unis
    • Sociétés de production
      • Sony Pictures Classics
      • Wild Bunch
      • Gravier Productions
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    • Budget
      • 15 000 000 $US (estimé)
    • Montant brut aux États-Unis et au Canada
      • 5 306 706 $US
    • Week-end de sortie aux États-Unis et au Canada
      • 266 162 $US
      • 21 juin 2009
    • Montant brut mondial
      • 36 020 534 $US
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    • Durée
      1 heure 33 minutes
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      • Dolby Digital
    • Rapport de forme
      • 1.85 : 1

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