Silver Linings Playbook: Movie Review
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Silver Linings Playbook Review This film is a more than just a romantic comedy, as it allows the audience to accept that they are to some extent, crazy inside. The film has a main story, a former teacher named Pat
Solitano (Bradley Cooper) is released from a mental hospital after an eight month stay and tries to win back his cheating exwife but that simple, though entertaining plot almost fades away in your mind as you watch the fascinating characters who come in and out of Pat's life. Tiffany
(Jennifer Lawrence), who meets our hero after he moves back home, is a recently widowed young woman who coped with her distress by having sex with every person in her office. Pat Sr.
(Robert De Niro), Pat’s father, is not just an obsessive Philadelphia Eagles fan, but also a compulsive gambler with OCD tendencies in his extreme superstitiousness. Ronnie is Pat’s best friend who is stuck in a marriage with a woman who bosses him around and has completely shredded his confidence. And not only are these characters beautifully illustrated and crafted with depth and personality, however the development they display over the course of the film allows the audience to have a sense of accomplishment and completion when then finish their viewing. The entire movie is incredibly cast. While Cooper is the film’s greatest performance creating his character’s manic episodes with just the proper amount of panic, fear and stress without ever overplaying his character. Although De Niro is fantastic, it’s Lawrence’s performance that had viewers mesmerized as this was considered her “breakout role” in a serious role (as opposed to her role in the hunger games). Tiffany is almost as messed up as Pat, and the young actress plays her with an engaging aggressiveness that lets her dominate every scene she’s in, if she’s wildly charging out of the side of the screen while Pat is on a run or shutting down
Pat Sr. when he suggests that she is “bad juju” for the
Silver Linings Playbook Review This film is a more than just a romantic comedy, as it allows the audience to accept that they are to some extent, crazy inside. The film has a main story, a former teacher named Pat
Solitano (Bradley Cooper) is released from a mental hospital after an eight month stay and tries to win back his cheating exwife but that simple, though entertaining plot almost fades away in your mind as you watch the fascinating characters who come in and out of Pat's life. Tiffany
(Jennifer Lawrence), who meets our hero after he moves back home, is a recently widowed young woman who coped with her distress by having sex with every person in her office. Pat Sr.
(Robert De Niro), Pat’s father, is not just an obsessive Philadelphia Eagles fan, but also a compulsive gambler with OCD tendencies in his extreme superstitiousness. Ronnie is Pat’s best friend who is stuck in a marriage with a woman who bosses him around and has completely shredded his confidence. And not only are these characters beautifully illustrated and crafted with depth and personality, however the development they display over the course of the film allows the audience to have a sense of accomplishment and completion when then finish their viewing. The entire movie is incredibly cast. While Cooper is the film’s greatest performance creating his character’s manic episodes with just the proper amount of panic, fear and stress without ever overplaying his character. Although De Niro is fantastic, it’s Lawrence’s performance that had viewers mesmerized as this was considered her “breakout role” in a serious role (as opposed to her role in the hunger games). Tiffany is almost as messed up as Pat, and the young actress plays her with an engaging aggressiveness that lets her dominate every scene she’s in, if she’s wildly charging out of the side of the screen while Pat is on a run or shutting down
Pat Sr. when he suggests that she is “bad juju” for the