WHATEVER WORKS **

Woody Allen wrote and directed this Comedy/Romance which features: Larry David, Evan Rachel Wood, Ed Begley Jr., Patricia Clarkson, Henry Cavill, and Michael McKean. Rated PG-13 for sexual situations including dialogue, brief nude images and thematic material. Running time is one hour and thirty-two minutes.

In Woody Allen's latest film an eccentric New Yorker (David) abandons his upper class life to lead a more bohemian existence. He meets a young girl (Wood) from the South and her family (Begley Jr. and Clarkson), and no two people seem to get along in the entanglements that follow.

If you like Allen's sense of humor, which I do, you'll probably enjoy this more than the rating indicates. It's a minor film but with numerous chuckles throughout. To me, David was the least of the four leads, but that's the way the film was written and no reflection on his abilities. Wood is just delightful and Begley Jr. and Clarkson are very good as her fundamentalist parents who turn out to be not so fundamentalist after all. As usual in an Allen film, the music score is enjoyable. You can wait for the DVD if you're so inclined without missing anything.