WHATEVER WORKSNow Playing!  "No kidding: this is the feel-good movie of the year and a cinematic soul massage." - Richard Corliss, Time After the failure of his career, his marriage, and his suicide attempt, world-class grouch Boris Yellnikoff (Larry David), spends his days insulting the small children unfortunate enough to study chess with him and irritating his still-loyal friends with his never-ending tirades about the worthlessness of absolutely everything. A former Columbia Professor and self-proclaimed genius who came close to winning a Nobel Prize for Quantum Mechanics, Boris fancies himself the only one who fully comprehends the meaningless of all human aspirations, and the pitch-black chaos of the universe. However, an encounter with a young, innocent and doe-eyed runaway (Evan Rachel Wood) leaves Boris struck by an unexpectedly pleasurable appreciation of the chance factor in life, the vast unlikelihood that the paths of two such dissimilar people would ever cross. dir. Woody Allen, w/ Larry David, Evan Rachel Wood, Patricia Clarkson 1h32m 
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