Silver Linings Playbook
Pats parents have giving up on him going back to his wife, he has no job and he stays with them now, until Tiffany came along who offers to help him reconnect with his wife, if he will do something very important for her in exchange.
29 March 1946, Brooklyn, New York, USA
28 May 1972, Wilmington, Delaware, USA
24 May 1974, New York City, New York, USA
14 March 1983, New York, New York, USA
28 August 1984, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, USA
5 January 1969, Tallahassee, Florida, USA
8 December 1953, Long Island, New York, USA
21 October 1987, Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]
1 April 1972, New York City, New York, USA
17 December 1960, Harvey, Illinois, USA
April 16, 2014
"Silver Linings Playbook" makes comic hay from bipolar illness, early death, sexual adventurism, self-improvement binges, football fanaticism, degenerate gambling and father-son estrangement, as one would expect from latter-day Russell movies.
November 05, 2013
But Silver Linings Playbook never induces a roll of the eyes, even if it never really surprises.
August 01, 2013
In an age when the concept of comedies about possible kinships between characters is dominated by sugary devices and contrivance, here at last is a movie about real situations, real people and the natural experiences that evolve from them.
April 17, 2016
It's a challenging picture, but it runs the gamut of emotions so well that it's nearly impossible to dislike.
January 04, 2013
A crazy beaut of a comedy that brims with generosity and manages to circumvent predictability at every turn.
May 10, 2016
Silver Linings Playbook gives us four performers to relish.
November 21, 2012
An edgy romantic dramedy that suits our anxious times.
January 04, 2013
It's a rom-com that succeeds in revitalizing 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 social satire or montages of people walking on the beach.
May 03, 2015
Wouldn't it be great if mental illness really was as adorable as it is in the movies?
January 04, 2013
Silver Linings Playbook tells us that happily-ever-after may depend on finding people who coexist with our lunacy, not ones who can lead us out of it. In any case, it's crazy good.
November 21, 2012
This meaningful film keeps the laughs, giddy anxiousness and warm butterflies from the trailer and sustains it all through two full hours of a love story.
January 22, 2013
Writer-director Russell is just the guy to bring out (and then calm) the manic dysfunction in these folks.
