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Whatever Works explores the relationship between a crotchety misanthrope, Boris and a naïve, impressionable young runaway from the south, Melody. When Melody's uptight parents arrive in New York to rescue her, they are quickly drawn into wildly unexpected romantic entanglements. Everyone discovers that finding love is just a combination of lucky chance and appreciating the value of "whatever works."

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Budget : $15 mn
Box Office : $35.1 mn

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By Abishai John
Whatever Works (2009)

Whatever Works shouldn't work.

It's a story of an old, cynical, Jewish New Yorker that Woody Allen wrote for himself but doesn't star in.

It has a young, naive Southern belle that fits every single stereotype known to man who falls in love with this crippled old man and marries him even when all he does is point out exactly how wrong she is in everything that she does.

It involves a staunchly conservative couple from the South turn into a polyamourous artsy photographer and an openly gay man.

It involves the same crippled man jump out of the window in the same fashion that caused his limp earlier and land on a middle aged woman who...

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