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Whatever Works
2009
· Movie
· 92 min
C
MEANRANK
63/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3589
- IMDb #1993
- Rotten Tomatoes #3400
- Metacritic #3428
- Letterboxd #3172
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3796
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3307
- Metacritic Critics #3869
- Metacritic Audience #2395
- Criticker #1636
- Kinopoisk #2422
- AlloCiné #1197
- Trakt #2772
Every rating
45–76
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 45, highest is AlloCiné on 76. Critics average 48, everyone else 67.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A misanthropic, retired physicist who once almost won a Nobel Prize lives a solitary life in New York City. His rigid worldview is disrupted when a naive young runaway from the South shows up on his doorstep. He reluctantly takes her in, and her simple, optimistic nature begins to challenge his cynical outlook on life.
Details
- Director
- Woody Allen
- Writer
- Woody Allen
- Released
- 19 June 2009
- Country
- United States, France
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 92 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $15.0M
- Box office
- $36.0M
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