WHATEVER WORKS
Whatever Works, shot in New York after years of absence, documents a failed physicist's limping journey from misanthropy to the acceptance of the world's innumerable flaws. With Larry David as a crank for whom the glass is always half-empty, Woody Allen's homecoming throws welcome twists onto the director's longstanding reflections on the sexual and the satirical. The story of an aging Jewish misfit meeting a youthful beauty from beyond New York takes much from Allen's Annie Hall template. Allen has written young inexperienced American female characters into his recent European films, but he hasn't had an acerbic talk-aholic New Yorker like Boris Yellnikoff for years. (David D'Arcy)
- Larry David - Boris Yellnikoff
- Evan Rachel Wood - Melody
- Ed Begley Jr. - John
- Carolyn McCormick - Jessica
- Michael McKean - Joe
- Patricia Clarkson - Marietta
- Conleth Hill - Leo Brockman
- Woody Allen
- Harris Savides
- David Wahnon
- Alisa Lepselter
- Roy B. Yokelson
- Santo Loquasto
- Suzy Benzinger
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