Whatever Works (2009)

Not Recommended

USA/France

Feature Film

Writer/Director: Woody Allen

Cinematographer: Harris Savides

Cast: Larry David, Evan Rachel Wood, Patricia Clarkson, Ed Begley Jr., Conleth Hill, Olek Krupa, John Gallagher Jr., Henry Cavill, Christopher Evan Welch, Jessica Hecht

Originally written as a vehicle for Zero Mostel in the ’70s (but shelved after his 1977 death), Allen’s mildly diverting if decidedly uneven film follows, from start to finish and beyond, the unlikely relationship that develops between an air-headed young runaway and the middle-aged intellectual misanthropist that she meets on her arrival in Manhattan. Iain.Stott