Silver Linings Playbook

David O. Russell, USA, 2012o

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Pat spent eight months in a psychiatric hospital after he caught his wife in the shower with another man and beat up the lover. Now he is released and meets Tiffany, who is also mentally unstable and has been suffering from depression since the death of her husband. During dance lessons together the two outsiders gradually get closer and work together on their problems.

Pat Solitano (Bradley Cooper) is in a bit of a blue funk. It’s not enough that he was confined to a mental institution after catching his wife with another man and nearly beating the guy to death. Now this turbulently bipolar blunderer is emerging from his time away with no job, no house (back to Mom and Dad he goes!) and pariah status among everyone except the really cute, emotionally disturbed girl next door (Jennifer Lawrence).

Sounds like a recipe for a bad ol’ Indiewood melodrama, right? But the primary pleasure of this black romantic comedy, adapted by writer-director David O. Russell from Matthew Quick’s novel, is how jagged-edged everything is, with a stellar group of actors spouting overlapping, acid-tongued dialogue like their lives depended on it. This shouldn’t be surprising for those familiar with Russell’s singular cinema-of-hysteria: Beginning with his incest-farce feature debut, Spanking the Monkey (1994), the filmmaker has created a uniquely discomfiting body of work that explores distinctly American neuroses with bracing specificity and frequent hilarity. (Extract)

Keith Uhlich

David O. Russell («The Fighter») erfreut mit einer liebenswürdigen kleinen Erzählung mit präzisen Dialogen und Darstellern, die Freude daran haben, emotionale Wracks zu spielen, die ein bisschen gestört und wahnsinnig komisch sind. Jennifer Lawrence bekam für ihre Leistung den Oscar als beste Hauptdarstellerin.

Andreas Scheiner

American Madness at its best. Nichts ist so durchgeknallt wie die ganz gewöhnliche Familie - weil sie aus lauter lieben fürsorglichen Menschen besteht. Bradley Cooper kommt aus der Anstalt heim, Jennifer Lawrence will ihn haben. Sie springt ihm in die Arme, furioses Finale! David O. Russell inszeniert so fetzig, dass sogar Robert De Niro mit den Ohren schlackert.

Fritz Göttler

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Variety, 9/8/2012
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Video Essay: The Romcom
Leigh Singer / Sight & Sound
en / 2/5/2016 / 15‘15‘‘

Director David O. Russell on his career and the film
Scott Feinberg / The Hollywood Reporter
en en / 1/30/2013 / 33‘51‘‘

The Craft of the Director: David O Russell
Jeremy Kagan / Directors Guild of America
en / 5/26/2016 / 132‘12‘‘

Movie Datao

Other titles
Silver Linings DE
Happiness Therapy FR
Genre
Drama, Romance
Running time
122 Min.
Original language
English
Important Awards
Oscar 2013: Best Actress (Jennifer Lawrence)
Ratings
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ØYour rating7.3/10
IMDB user:
7.7 (751980)
Cinefile-User:
5.3 (3)
Critics:
6.7 (3) q

Cast & Crewo

Bradley CooperPat
Jennifer LawrenceTiffany
Robert De NiroPat Sr.
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Video Essay: The Romcom
Sight & Sound, en , 15‘15‘‘
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Director David O. Russell on his career and the film
The Hollywood Reporter, en en, 33‘51‘‘
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The Craft of the Director: David O Russell
Directors Guild of America, en , 132‘12‘‘
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Review Variety
Justin Chang
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Review Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
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Review Süddeutsche Zeitung
Fritz Göttler
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Review Der Standard
Dominik Kamalzadeh
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Review Ecran Large
Jérémy Ponthieux
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Review Le Figaro
Emmanuèle Frois
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