San Francisco Chronicle
Only Jennifer Lawrence... somehow finds the tonal balance that eludes Russell and the film as a whole.
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Silver Linings Playbook
Romantic comedy from director David O. Russell (The Fighter) starring Bradley Cooper as a heartbroken man fresh out of a mental institution, living with his parents and trying to get his life back together. Co-stars Jennifer Lawrence (who nabbed an Oscar for her role), Robert DeNiro and Chris Tucker. Adapted from Matthew Quick’s bestselling novel.
Pat (Cooper) has lost everything - his house, his job, his wife (to another man) and his compsure. After months in a state institution, he now finds himself living back with his mother (Jacki Weaver) and father (DeNiro). Determined to remain positive (the Silver Lining ethos), Pat devotes himself entirely to becoming the man his wife wanted him to be. But his regime gets sidetracked after meeting Tiffany (Lawrence), a girl with problems of her own. Tiffany offers to help Pat reconnect with his wife, but only if he'll do something very important for her in return.
Best Actress for Lawrence at the 2013 Academy Awards. Best Actress (Comedy or Musical) for Lawrence, Golden Globes 2013. Audience Award winner at Toronto Film Festival 2012. Best Adapted Screenplay, BAFTA Awards 2013.
2013Rating: M, contains violence, sexual references & offensive language122 minsUSA
ComedyDramaRomanceFestival & Independent
- Director:
- David O. Russell ('The Fighter', 'I Heart Huckabees', 'Three Kings', 'Flirting with Disaster')
- Writer:
- David O. Russell
- Cast:
- Bradley CooperJennifer LawrenceRobert De NiroJulia StilesChris TuckerJacki Weaver
Silver Linings Playbook / Reviews
Entertainment Weekly
A crazy beaut of a comedy that... manages to circumvent predictability at every turn.
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Salon
It's a rom-com that succeeds in revitalising that discredited genre where so many others have failed, injecting it with the grit and emotion of realist drama rather than with amped-up whimsy... or montages of people walking on the beach.
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NPR
Writer-director Russell is just the guy to bring out (and then calm) the manic dysfunction in these folks.
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Variety
In a script that never lapses into mundane or uninteresting language, the scenes between Pat and Tiffany are sculpted with an almost David Mamet-like sharpness.
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The Guardian
This is a date movie that doesn't offer the sophistication it thinks it does, but is as enjoyable and good-natured as the genre requires.
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Little White Lies
It wraps up a little more cosily than the director’s hardcore fans might have liked but, for just over an hour, this is one of the strangest American comedies to emerge in quite some time.
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Hollywood Reporter
Cooper and Lawrence expand their range in David O. Russell's winning comedy romance about two people struggling to rebuild their lives.
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Empire Magazine
Jennifer Lawrence is the standout in a tonally uneven, eccentric romantic dramedy.
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A.V. Club
It's the perfect material for Russell, who not only deals perceptively with the dizzying swings of manic depression, but makes it the fabric of a big, generous, happy-making ensemble comedy.
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