Whatever Works

Whatever Works

  • Director: Woody Allen
  • Countries of origin: United States, France
  • Language: English
  • Release date: July 3, 2009
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Untitled Woody Allen Project
  • "Whatever Works" is a romantic comedy film directed by Woody Allen and starring Larry David , Evan Moore and Patricia Davies Clarkson . It was released in the United States on June 19, 2009.
    The film tells the story of the weird-tempered physicist Boris and the young girl Melody married, but after the marriage he had to cope with the picky stories of the other's mother   .

    Details

    • Release date July 3, 2009
    • Filming locations East Village, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
    • Production companies Sony Pictures Classics, Wild Bunch, Gravier Productions

    Box office

    Budget

    $15,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $5,306,706

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $266,162

    Gross worldwide

    $36,020,534

    Movie reviews

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    • By Marcos 2022-04-21 09:02:48

      I just wanted to tell that little story

      The protagonist's seemingly free and easy mantra makes people think that he doesn't care about life, love, or life, and he can do whatever he wants. But in fact, he is a rigid, rigorous, and detail-oriented person. For example, he has to sing Happy Birthday twice when washing his hands. For example, he must turn on the night light when he sleeps at night. For example, he has a pessimistic attitude toward love and life.

      So he is a contradictory individual.

      I don't know if...

    • By Claud 2022-04-21 09:02:48

      Whatever works

      1. I didn't jump on you.

        
      It's not the idea behind Christianity
      I'm faulting, or Judaism, or any religion.

        
      It's the professionals
      who've made it into a corporate business.

        
      There's big money in the God racket.
      Big money.

        
      -Here we go.
      -We know, Boris.

        
      Hey, the basic teachings of Jesus
      are quite wonderful.

        
      So, by the way,
      is the original intention of Karl Marx....

    • By Heath 2022-04-21 09:02:48

      70's Humor

      Woody Allen's work is extremely naive, he thinks he can go back to the naive age of a middle school. . . . He then promoted what he called "nihilism",
      "Nihilism - as a philosophical sense that the existence of the world, especially human beings, has no meaning, purpose, and comprehensible truth and most essential value. It is a tit-for-tat opinion put forward rather than a publicly stated position of a person. Many commentators believe that Dada, Deconstructionism, and Punk are...

    • By Ezequiel 2022-04-21 09:02:48

      I don't know if I will remember this passage next New Year's Eve

      87", for the record.

      I happen to hate New year's celebrations. Everybody desperate to have fun. Trying to celebrate in some pathetic little way. Celebrate what? A step closer to the grave? 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. And don't kid yourself, it's by no means all up to your own human ingenuity. A bigger part of your existence is luck than you'd like...

    • By Joannie 2022-04-21 09:02:48

      Wretched and arrogant middle-class white man

      All the costumes are self-portraits, Woody Allen doesn't even bother to dress up, and all his movies feature himself as the protagonist.

      I hate his arrogance and arrogance, and I hate him even more after watching this movie. He is the male protagonist. When the protagonist satirizes the public and the female protagonist, what he said was Woody Allen's innermost thoughts. He was a self-proclaimed genius, full of contempt and contempt for the world, and thought that other human beings...

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    • By Margarete 2023-09-12 04:24:26

      Woody has returned to his original face, and this time he is talking about himself again~ It is the most enjoyable to babble about something. Recently, I always watch chatty movies. ....

    • By Felicia 2023-08-17 18:38:59

      Although we stand together now, we are already dispersing at an already immeasurable rate. Even the universe is disintegrating, how can we not be...

    • By Nels 2023-07-08 17:37:12

      If later Woody is suspected of changing to a landscape film, then this "Anything Will Do" is probably the return of the young old man's chatter style in recent years. The Boris is possessed by the real Woody Allen, and the careful old man did not forget to satirize the last muse Scarlett Johansson through the movie "Gone with the Wind"! Life is meaningless, yes, I happen to be a pessimist...

    • By Arnold 2023-05-27 16:14:32

      I happen to hate New Year's celebrations. Everybody desperate to have fun. Trying to celebrate in some pathetic little way. Celebrate what? A step closer to the...

    • By Una 2022-12-20 16:03:50

      What a great one every year!! Whatever Works, you can do whatever you want, go to his traditions, go to his religion, go to his order, as long as you are happy, you can do whatever you...

    Movie plot

    Once upon a time, Boris Yernikov ( Larry David ) also had a beautiful life like a picture scroll. As an internationally renowned physicist, he previously taught string theory at Columbia University. His wife Jessica ( played by Carolyn McCormick ) is a very talented, beautiful and wealthy woman who lives together in a luxurious apartment located in a high society residential area. But such good luck with good weather did not alleviate...
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    Woody Allen's inescapable intellectual feelings in Whatever Works and the alienation effect of the film are always beating the psychological limits of pseudo-intellectuals. The ruthless criticism of modern art has almost reached a kind of pessimism in this comedy. Level. Hollywood stars are portrayed as lunatics appearing in the film, while lowering the IQ of these characters, they tortured the IQ of the audience and incorporate the...
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    Movie quotes

    • Melodie St. Ann Celestine: Do you really think I'm beautiful?

      Boris Yellnikoff: I admit that I didn't give you you're full due at first - physically. However, as only a great mind can do, I've reassessed... my... position, and uh, changed my mind.

      Melodie St. Ann Celestine: So you could, you could never think of marrying me?

      Boris Yellnikoff: Have you lost your mind? Why on earth would you even fantasize about such a thing. What could I offer you but a bad temper, hypochondriasis, morbid fixations, reclusive rages, and and misanthropy. And what could you offer me? A character out of Faulkner, not unlike Benjy.

    • Boris Yellnikoff: Yes, my life is circumscribed, but I manage to avoid stress. I've achieved a delicate balance, and as long as I can maintain it, I feel less inclined to ending it.

    • Boris Yellnikoff: It's uncanny, she's exactly the kind of moron you described.

      Marietta: You are not the gentleman I was expecting.

      Boris Yellnikoff: I'm sure not. I'm sure you'd be happy if she married the guy who caught the biggest catfish in Plaquemin County.

      Marietta: I'd be happier if she married the catfish.

      Melodie St. Ann Celestine: Well you see mama, Boris is a genius okay, he doesn't have a lot of patience for us inchworms.

      Boris Yellnikoff: We, we inchworms! I was almost nominated for a Nobel Prize.

      Melodie St. Ann Celestine: That's right Boris, and what was it for? Best Picture?