--- title: 'Whatever It Takes (2000)' type: 'film' director: 'David Raynr' released: '2000-03-24' runtime_minutes: 94 certification: 'PG-13' genres: - 'Romance' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/whatever-it-takes-2000' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0202402/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Whatever It Takes (2000) 2000 · PG-13 · 94 min · Romance · United States ## Synopsis Whatever It Takes is a 2000 American teen comedy film directed by David Raynr and starring Shane West, Marla Sokoloff, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, and James Franco, this is also the film debut of Aaron Paul. It was released in the United States on March 24, 2000 by Sony Pictures Releasing. The film's story is a modern update of the 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand. Whatever It Takes received negative reviews from critics and was a box office bomb, grossing $9 million against a $15 million budget. ## Credits - **Director:** [David Raynr](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-raynr) - **Screenplay:** [Mark Schwahn](https://cinepixo.com/people/mark-schwahn) - **Original Music Composer:** [Edward Shearmur](https://cinepixo.com/people/edward-shearmur) - **Director of Photography:** [Tim Suhrstedt](https://cinepixo.com/people/tim-suhrstedt) ## Cast - [Marla Sokoloff](https://cinepixo.com/people/marla-sokoloff) - [Kip Pardue](https://cinepixo.com/people/kip-pardue) - [Manu Intiraymi](https://cinepixo.com/people/manu-intiraymi) - [Jodi Lyn O'Keefe](https://cinepixo.com/people/jodi-lyn-o-keefe) - [James Franco](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-franco) - [Scott Vickaryous](https://cinepixo.com/people/scott-vickaryous) - [Christine Lakin](https://cinepixo.com/people/christine-lakin) - [Julia Sweeney](https://cinepixo.com/people/julia-sweeney) - [Richard Schiff](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-schiff) - [David Koechner](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-koechner) - [Aaron Paul](https://cinepixo.com/people/aaron-paul) - [Shane West](https://cinepixo.com/people/shane-west) - [Jay Harrington](https://cinepixo.com/people/jay-harrington) - [Colin Hanks](https://cinepixo.com/people/colin-hanks) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/whatever-it-takes-2000 Film facts: Wikidata (Q2459296); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.