I enjoyed seeing this film at the same screening as Lindy, but close enough to catch all the screen detail.

Evan Rachel Woods and Patricia Clarkson put in great performances, and Larry David played Woody Allen a bit extreme but spot on.

If you like Woody Allen films, go see it. If you like seeing southern bigots transformed into artistic urbane characters and change their sexuality, go see it.

If you don't like any of that, go watch Transformers 2 at the Cineplex and watch the big explosions on screen - I hear Megan Fox is a great actress in that ..

Nice review. In the preview, Larry David comes down some stairs yelling, "I'm dying! I'm dying!" and someone asks if he wants an ambulance. He answers, "No, I'm not dying now, but... eventually!" The same joke was used in HANNAH AND HER SISTERS, and I thought, "My god, someone's totally ripping off Woody Allen!" and then a few seconds later I found out who. :(

Larry David: 62. Evan Rachel Wood: 21. That's quite a bit more extreme even than Woody's 61-27 romance with his wife. It makes Audrey Hepburn's screen romances with Astaire/Peck/Grant look positively plausible.

and don't forget her fling with Humphrey Bogart: yuck.

I am a big Woody Allen fan who has even had the patience for much of his work in the last decade or two, but this was truly awful. Never before, not even in "Curse of the Jade Scorpion" or whatever have I fought the overwhelming urge to just walk out of the theater.

The joke was not used in Hannah and Her Sisters. I just watched it last night.

David's character Boris is a hypochondriac reminiscent of MIckey from H&HS who does at one point lay in bed and yell that he is dying, but never says "not now! eventually!" or anything remotely similar.

MIckey believes his death is immediate from the brain tumor he thinks he has. After he finds out he is going to live he still fears his eventual death and seeks religion, but he never makes this joke. I'll concede that it does however seem like a joke he would have already made.

Randomly, I just read this review after watching Hannah and Her Sisters last night and can say the "eventually" line does appear in the film--It's in one of the scenes where Woody Allen and Julie Kavner are talking in an office.
As for Whatever Works, I told a friend I would go see it with him, but watching the trailer again I'm going to see if he wants to just have dinner instead.

Don't be so damn pretentious. This movie was hilarious. Dated? I really don't see why. You have obviously never lived in the south or at least in a small southern town because the idea of homosexuality is truly alien to those people. Yes, even today. Of course all those things are in the media but the overwhelming influence of Baptist ideals trumps that. You need to do some research and step out of your analytical box before you watch a film next time.

@mchrist910-

You are a fool. Dated? Who is dated here? ummm..YOU!!

As someone who has lived in ALABAMA my whole life, I can say we DO know about/mingle with gay people everyday. Homosexuality CAN cross state lines, you know. Seattle/ San Fran/New York/etc. are not the only places that gays are "known" about.

"alien" ???

We've been butt-fucking out in the barn way before all you dipshit hippies decided to blindly categorize an entire region of the U.S. as "dim-witted Baptists".

take a chill pill stein015. I never said "dim-witted" and do you know alien has another meaning other than "martians"? well it does. I lived in a small southern town my whole life as well so if you are questioning my credentials, there ya go. I didnt say it was dated either, that was my initial arguement. that is wasnt dated. For a supposed liberal, you seem very biased and presumptuous. And where in Alabama? because from my perspective, it really depends on the size of the town. I didn't mean to offend i was just countering one arguement that the south has become accustomed to homosexuality. In my case, it hadn't. Sorry, excuse my ability to voice an opinion.

and show me one baptist who is ok with homosexuality. dont try telling me your mother is a baptist either, you are jewish.