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Whatever Works

Year:
Duration:
USA:92 min (Tribeca Film Festival) | Argentina:92 min
Genres:
Comedy | Romance
IMDB rate:
7.2
Director:
Woody Allen
Awards:
3 wins
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 2009-07-01
Filming Locations: Grant's Tomb, Riverside Drive, New York City, New York, USA
Earnings
Budget: $15,000,000
Opening Weekend: $266,162 (USA) (21 June 2009)
Gross: $5,305,622 (USA) (25 October 2009)
Cast
Actor
Character
Larry David
Boris
Adam Brooks
Boris' Friend
Lyle Kanouse
Boris' Friend
Clifford Lee Dickson
Boy on Street
Yolonda Ross
Boy's Mother
Carolyn McCormick
Jessica
Samantha Bee
Chess Mother
Conleth Hill
Brockman
Marcia DeBonis
Lady at Chinese Restaurant
Evan Rachel Wood
Melody
John Gallagher Jr.
Perry
Willa Cuthrell-Tuttleman
Chess Girl (as Willa Cuthrell Tuttleman)
Nicole Patrick
Perry's Friend
Patricia Clarkson
Marietta
Henry Cavill
Randy
Olek Krupa
Morgenstern
Ed Begley Jr.
John
Christopher Evan Welch
Howard
Jessica Hecht
Helena
Lindsay Michelle Nader
Television Voice (voice)
Armand Schultz
Television Voice (voice)
Steve Antonucci
Flea Market Shopper (uncredited)
Marc Alan Austen
Photo Gallery Patron (uncredited)
Julie Basem
Cafe Waitress (uncredited)
Kenneth Edelson
Gallery Guest (uncredited)
Gabriel Nussbaum
Concert Goer (uncredited)
Chris Nuñez
Concert Goer (uncredited)
Quincy Rose
Guy on Bench (uncredited)
Robin Rose Singer
Indie Rocker (uncredited)
Did you know?
Trivia
Woody Allen claims he casted Larry David because it's one of the few comedians that makes him laugh.
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When Woody Allen started to write the movie back in the 70s, his main idea was to tell how a family of intolerant rednecks changed completely for different reasons after a while in New York.
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The role of Boris Yellnikoff was original written for Zero Mostel. After Mostel's death in 1977, Woody Allen set the screenplay aside. However, with a potential actor's strike during 2008-9, Allen chose this old screenplay to be his next film. Furthermore Zero Mostel and Larry David both played the role of Max Bialistock. Mostel in the original Producers and David in the play within a show representing the main story arc from season 4 of Curb your Enthusiasm.
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Goofs
Near the beginning of the film, when Boris is talking with his wife Jessica, the position of Jessica's arms keeps changing from shot to shot.
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In the scene where Boris is visiting the woman he accidentally injured, set in her hospital room, the boom mic is clearly visible on the left side of the screen.
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After Melody firsts enters Boris' apartment and is offered a can of sardines, she removes the high school jacket she is wearing. Then, after the next jump-cut, she is again shown in the process of removing the jacket.
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Quotes
Melodie St. Ann Celestine: Oh wait, I always carry some Viagra with me.
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Jessica: You are a very difficult man to live with
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Boris Yellnikoff: Love, despite what they tell you, does not conquer all, nor does it even usually last. In the end the romantic aspirations of our youth are reduced to, whatever works.
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Photos from cast
Michael McKean
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